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New York after the 19th Ammendment
We print above the text of the Proclamation signed at 8 a.m. on August 26, by the Secretary of State of the United States of America, whereby is ratified the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States of America constitution. The Nineteenth Amendment reads plainly and simply: "The rights of the citizens of the Untied States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex." But the ratification of that Nineteenth Amendment has been no plain and simple -
Approval of the 19th Ammendment
"To the last, Anti-Suffragists and obscure influences sympathizing with them delude themselves with false hopes. Forced to admit that the amendment was certain to be ultimately adopted, they conspired to deal the event to prevent women in many States from voting in the November elections. In the devices that they employed in Tennessee, the final fighting-ground, they showed the unscrupulousness of desperate tricksters. "If they plan further efforts to nullify the action of the thirty-six States -
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Women's involvement in politics
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Feminist Protestors for equal pay
A small group of demonstrators rally in Hollywood to take a stand in the “War on Women's rights,” demanding that federal support of women's health and child care services be upheld, as part of Women's Equality Day. -
Conservative feminism in the US is hardly new.
Conservative feminism in the US is hardly new. One of its early incarnations was the Woman's Christian Temperance Union, established in 1880 as part of the temperance movement campaigning for the prohibition of alcohol (a movement in which Susan B. Anthony was heavily involved). According to Blee, early rightist women's activism often had a racist tendency. Those involved in the pro-suffrage movement, for example, were galvanised to ensure that white female voters could outnumber black men. A nu -
Are Women Paid Fairly?
Let's look closely at the study itself. The spin starts with the way that the finding is presented. Although the finding is statistically significant, the size of the effect is small. Said another way, the relationship between Daddy CEO having a Girl and reduction in the gender wage gap is not a function of chance. And, it doesn't make much of a real world difference. On average, the decrease was .5% (yes, half of one percent).
