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From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
Women are receiving “less pay than man for the same kind and quality of work,” suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage charged in the 1850’s when feminists demanded “equal pay for equal work.” 170 years ago women made half the wages of men; today we make a little over 75%. Will it take us another 170 years to reach pay equity?
Conservative Chr
Women are receiving “less pay than man for the same kind and quality of work,” suffragist Matilda Joslyn Gage charged in the 1850’s when feminists demanded “equal pay for equal work.” 170 years ago women made half the wages of men; today we make a little over 75%. Will it take us another 170 years to reach pay equity?
Conservative Christians aligned with the American Medical Association to pass laws in the 1870’s imprisoning anyone educating about birth control or giving abortions. Elizabeth Cady Stanton believed in a “woman's right to become a mother or not as her desire, judgment and conscience may dictate...to be absolute sovereign of herself”.
Progressive suffragists Stanton and Gage believed in the rights of the unborn, and the most sacred right, the most important one, they said, is the right to be wanted and chosen. Only if the woman decides, they made clear, is that possible.
These struggles of women today –and more --were those of our feminist foremothers. Why has that herstory been stolen from us?
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From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
The women’s suffrage movement began in 1848 in Seneca Falls, NY and Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton led the fight for the vote until 1920, when women received the right to vote with the 19th amendment.
Is this the story you learned about the women’s suffrage movement? Unfortunately, every part of it is wrong. ...Learn more
Women voted here -- BEFORE COLUMBUS
From Equal Pay to Reproductive Justice: the REAL Story of the Suffrage Movement.
Women voted here -- BEFORE COLUMBUS
Imagine that women have the right to choose all political representatives, removing from office anyone who doesn’t make wise decisions for the future. Living in a world free from violence against them, women will not allow a man to hold office if he has violated a woman. Economically independent, they have the final say in matters of war
Imagine that women have the right to choose all political representatives, removing from office anyone who doesn’t make wise decisions for the future. Living in a world free from violence against them, women will not allow a man to hold office if he has violated a woman. Economically independent, they have the final say in matters of war and peace and the absolute right to their own bodies. This existed on this land-before Columbu
