After Yuan Shih- k'ai took power, however, and the nation was divided by warlords, women's political activities subsided, not resurging again until the May Fourth Movement of 1919.
其後袁世凱當政，繼之以軍閥割據，世亂如麻，女子參政運動也就聲浪漸息，直到五四運動之後，才又重新蓬勃起來。