The Fight for Suffrage
The fight to earn the right to vote was long and arduous. This process, which showed the true political power of women nationwide, is a celebrated, yet overdue expansion of democratic rights.
Negative Reaction to Women's Suffrage
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity." - John Boyle O'Reilly
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"Why is a woman to be treated differently? Woman suffrage will succeed, despite this miserable guerrilla opposition." - Victoria Woodhull
Women's Suffrage Images
"Men, their rights, and nothing more; women, their rights, and nothing less." - Susan B. Anthony
Title IX
As promised by Title IX: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from the participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving Federal financial assistance..."
"Why is proportionality so difficult to achieve? The lesser interest of female students is clearly a factor. Another is the large size of football teams, which places schools at an immediate disadvantage. At big-time football schools, teams often have as many as 120 members; no other sport, men’s or women’s, is comparable. In order to equalize the numbers, schools would need three or four more women’s teams than men’s (hence varsity bowling and synchronized swimming).” - Elizabeth Arens
The Impact of Title IX
“Women don't need Title IX in order to have opportunities or the desire to play sports. That desire comes from wanting to have fun and compete in sports, not from an intrusive government regulation. Title IX does not inspire women to get up and play soccer, softball or basketball. As a sports writer, I never interviewed a female athlete who credited Title IX with her desire to play sports. They praised their family, friends, and coaches, but not this federal regulation.” - Shannon Blosser
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“Title IX has probably had more impact on the American education system than any other piece of federal legislation.” - Allison Kasic
Title IX Political Cartoons
Modern Day Issues
The battle for equality still continues to this day, as women are still fighting to end gender inequality. What work is still left?
Wage Gap Political Cartoons
"It's amazing to me that, in the 42 years since President Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act into law, women today still receive fewer wages than men for the same work." - Mike Honda
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"Today there are people trying to take away rights that our mothers, grandmothers and great-grandmothers fought for: our right to vote, our right to choose, affordable quality education, equal pay, access to health care. We the people can't let that happen."
- Kerry Washington
- Kerry Washington
Wage Gap Graphs
Women in Office: Why so few? Should this issue be addressed?
“It has always been that girls should have the same opportunity to dream, aspire, achieve, to do whatever their God-given talents are, as boys. There should be no place where there isn’t a welcome mat for women.”
– Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
– Ruth Bader Ginsberg, U.S. Supreme Court Justice
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“Women are leaders everywhere you look ― from the CEO who runs a Fortune 500 company to the housewife who raises her children and heads her household. Our country was built by strong women and we will continue to break down walls and defy stereotypes.” – Nancy Pelosi, 60th Speaker of the House of Representatives