This week: celebrating Women's Equality Day; trail-blazing women like Anita Hill and Megan Rapinoe look ahead 100 years; what will it take for a woman to become president of the United States?; this + more from CynthiaRTerrell of RepresentWomen 📚✨
What does it say that 100 years after women gained the right to vote, their presence, their visibility as speakers, at a major political event should feel unusual? It says that our default mental image in too many parts of life is still male, a default that must change.
Parity has always been an elusive goal for women. Despite voting rights granted in 1920, laws across the board discriminated against women. Married women disappeared as individuals. Wives could not get a credit card or a mortgage on their own. Laws specifically allowed employers to fire a woman for a pregnancy.
In writing history, it is critical to tell the whole, often ugly truth. White suffragists often were also white supremacists. Abolitionist Frederick Douglass was willing to jettison women’s voting rights to win passage of the 15th Amendment, which gave African-American men the right to vote. Heroic women of all races have been overlooked consistently in the American story.
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