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世纪中期，女性加入陪审团才成为惯例。尽管早在1898年就有女性加入犹州的州级陪审团的先例，然而直到十九世纪40年代，大多数州才授予女性加入陪审的资格。即使如此，一些州仍默认把女性排除在陪审团外，除非后者要求她们的名字必须出现在陪审名单上。产生这一现象的理由是人们认为女人受家庭所需要，这导致60年代陪审团女性成员的长期缺席。
