The system also failed to regularly include women on juries until the mid20th century.
Although women first served on state juries in Utah in 1898, it was not until the 1940s that a majority of states made women eligible for jury duty. Even then several states automatically exempted women from jury duty unless they personally asked to have their names included on the jury list.This practice was justified by the claim that women were needed at home, and it kept juries unrepresentative of women through the 1960s.
直到20世紀中期，女性加入陪審團才成為慣例。盡管早在1898年就有女性加入猶州的州級陪審團的先例奕枢，然而直到十九世紀40年代，大多數州才授予女性加入陪審的資格岛马。即使如此，一些州仍默認把女性排除在陪審團外，除非后者要求她們的名字必須出現在陪審名單上。產生這一現象的理由是人們認為女人受家庭所需要芽唇，這導致60年代陪審團女性成員的長期缺席。
