Womens Suffrage

Why I'm Running for President of the United States!

Michealene Cristini Risley | Posted 05.16.2012

Read More: Women's Rights, African American Rights, President of the United States, Gay Rights, Mulan, Women's Suffrage, President Barack Obama, Congress, Rev Jesse Lee Peterson, Politics News

Internationally, women have a long history of subjugation. America was always supposed to be the beacon for women's freedom. What has happened to our country?

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We Can Do It: anecdota Presents 'Take What Is Yours'

Bess Rowen | Posted 05.10.2012

Read More: Theatre, Theater, Women's Suffrage, Alice Paul, Take What Is Yours, 59E59 Theaters, Suffrage, Arts News

If you would like to see a creative, historically sound and well-played piece of theatre, then Take What Is Yours is for you.

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Pastor: Women's Voting Rights 'One Of America's Greatest Mistakes'

The Huffington Post | Gene Demby | Posted 05.08.2012

Read More: Misogyny, Women's Rights, Kirsten Powers, Jesse-Lee-Peterson, Women's Issues, Women's Right to Vote, Sandra Fluke, Sean Hannity Talk Show, Jesse Lee Peterson Quotes, Sean Hannity News, Jesse Lee Peterson, Video, Women's Suffrage, War on Women, Sean Hannity, Bv-Politics, Jesse Lee Peterson News, Sean Hannity Guests, Black Voices News

Jesse Lee Peterson, the controversial conservative preacher and regular guest of Sean Hannity, said in a recent video it was a mistake to allow women ...

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Vermont Women in History

Madeleine M. Kunin | Posted 05.22.2012

Read More: Government, Politics, Women's Rights, Women, Women's Suffrage, Voting Problems, Madeleine M. Kunin, Culture News

No doubt our achievements for women's equality outweigh our lapses, but this is no time to be self-congratulatory. Vermont will become a state that gives equal opportunity and responsibility to women only when political power is equally shared.

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PHOTOS: Chicago Women Battle For Voting Rights

Posted 03.21.2012

Read More: Women's History Month, Chicago History, Women's Suffrage, Video, Women's Suffrage History, Voting Rights, Women's Suffrage Chicago, Chicago Women's History, Women's History Month Chicago, Women's Voting Rights, Voting Rights History, Chicago News

Considering that one century ago, Chicago was home to one of the nation's most robust local women's suffrage movements, one has to wonder what pioneer...

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Why The Girl Scouts Have Always Been Ahead Of Their Time

| Posted 03.12.2012

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Girl Scouts, Girl Guides, Girl-Scout-100-Year-Anniversary, Juliette Gordon-Low, Girl Scouts of America, Boy Scouts, Women News

By Amanda Marcotte (Click here for the original article) Also check out Magnum Photos' look at scouting around the world. As Girl Scouts nat...

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Back to the Future

Jennifer Seymour Whitaker | Posted 04.28.2012

Read More: Social Purity, Contraception, Women's Suffrage, Birth Control, Female Sexuality, Margaret Sanger, Comstock, Anti-Contraception, Culture News

What's it all about? From 1914 until the eve of the Second World War, Margaret Sanger and her allies fought and won the battle to make contraception widely available in the United States. Didn't they?

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Women's Equality Yet to Be Fully Realized

Rep. Carolyn Maloney | Posted 08.26.2011

Read More: Equal Rights Amendment, Women's Equality Day, Women's Suffrage, 19th Amendment, Rep. Carolyn Maloney, Women News

As it stands now, the equal rights of women are subject to interpretation of law. That is a risk our mothers, sisters and daughters cannot afford.

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Our National Dark Night Of The Soul

Lisa Sharon Harper | Posted 10.16.2011

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Abolition, Budget Debate, Dark Night of the Soul, Social Movements, Budget, St. John of the Cross, Civil Rights, Religion and Politics, Economic Injustice, Test of Faith, Religion News

We are a nation woven together by eclectic threads of common faith in the truth that all people are created equal. Again and again, our darkest hours have come when elements within our own national body have tested this faith.

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Exclusive Interview With Gloria Steinem: In Her Own Words

Marianne Schnall | Posted 10.12.2011

Read More: Gloria Steinem, Women's Rights, In Your Own Words, Feminism, Women's Empowerment, Women's Issues, Women's Suffrage, Hbo, Women News

When you think of the world's most famous feminist, you can't help but think of Gloria Steinem, the renowned activist. In the following interview, she reflects on the current state of women and politics, and her own vision for the future of feminism.

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From Suffrage To The White House: Remember The Past, Fight For The Future

Elinor Steele | Posted 10.05.2011

Read More: Women's Empowerment, Women's Rights, Women's Equality, Women's Suffrage, First Female President, Female President, Suffrage, Elinor Steele, Chain of Confidence, Women's Education, Tupperware, Sewall-Belmont House, Women News

Do you know the feeling of being in the presence of greatness? I felt surrounded and embraced by that feeling during my recent visit to the Sewall-Belmont House and Museum in Washington, D.C.

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Women Artists Remembered and Beloved

Max Eternity | Posted 06.06.2011

Read More: Women's Suffrage, Art, Iwd, Bauhaus, Ban Ki-Moon, Nancy Bechtol, Dee Hood, Lisa Tuttle, International Women's Day, ARC Gallery, Women's Day, Arts News

"In contemporary art, we can never underestimate the role of women artists in opening up the art world to diverse groups... starting in the 60's," says Lisa Tuttle, an Atlanta artist.

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Women Banned From Upcoming Saudi Elections

Posted 05.28.2011

Read More: Arab World, Saudi Women, Women's Rights, Islam, Women's Suffrage, Saudi Women's Rights, Saudi Arabia, Muslims, Women's Voting Rights, World News

RIYADH (Reuters) - Women in Saudi Arabia will not be allowed to vote in the long-delayed municipal elections to be held in September, the election...

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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony: A Friendship that Changed the World

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Penny Colman, Women's Rights, Susan B. Anthony, Women's History, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Book Reviews, Women's Suffrage, Seneca Falls, Books News

Penny Colman's new book tells a compelling story for readers. Colman also masterfully presents the facts, focusing on the friendship of two of the leaders of the suffrage movement.

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Celebate International Women's Day By Honoring The Oldest Woman You Know

Kari Henley | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, International Women's Day, Women's Empowerment, National Women's History Month 2011, Women's History Month, National Women's History Month, International Women's Day 2011, Women's History Month 2011, Women's Day, Video, Healthy Living News

Have you ever heard of International Women's Day? I hadn't, until last year, and I have been interested in women's studies all my life.

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The Revolution Isn't Over for the Women of Tahrir Square

Ehsan Zaffar | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Women in Politics, Egypt Protests, American Revolution, Women, Women's Suffrage, Egypt, Tahrir Square, Liberation, Hosni Mubarak, Ashoka, World News

Though women played a critical role during last month's protests, their future as stakeholders in Egypt's political process is being marginalized.

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Consolation and Inspiration From Dr. King

Robert Kuttner | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Martin Luther King Day, Martin Luther King, Mlk, Montgomery Bus Boycott, Slavery, Women's Suffrage, Obama Election, Segregation, Racism, Robert Wagner, Politics News

On the commemoration of the 82nd anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.'s birth, we can take some solace from what Dr. King did in the face of forces far more annihilating than the ones that progressives face this cold January. He built a movement when the consequences for challenging the racial order in the American South were swift and brutal. It is all too easy to make a list of why all political avenues to a more progressive society are blocked. At a time when the economic dreams of tens of millions of Americans are being crushed, I have no doubt that we shall see another progressive social movement.

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Biggest Voter Turnout In 90 Years, Since Women Won The Right

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mccain Election Day, Women's Suffrage, Election Reaction, Electoral College Results, Obama Election Day, Voter Turnout, Biggest Voter Turnout, Right to Vote, Politics News

Americans turned out at the polls in record numbers today. According to MSNBC: Americans were voting in numbers unprecedented since women were g...

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Ninety Years of Women's Suffrage and Counting (Photos)

The New York Public Library | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Slideshow, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, New York Public Library, Suffrage, Voting, Nypl, New York News

The images from the New York Public Library's Digital Gallery represent important holdings from the early women's movement in the United States and abroad.

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Making Our Grandmothers Proud: Women's Equality in the Voting Booth and in Office

Barbara Lee | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Politics, Women, Women's Suffrage, Barbara Lee, Voting, Politics News

Women have certainly claimed our place in the voting booth. But true equality in our democracy means equal representation in the voting booth and in elected office.

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Learn To Say 'No'

Ellen Snortland | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Ms. Magazine, National Women's History Project, Fifty-Fifty Leadership, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, IMPACT Personal Safety, Gandhi, Pauline Field, Seneca Falls, Impact News

"A man of quality is not threatened by a woman for equality." That's a familiar bumper sticker slogan for some of us. Men are crucial to any social...

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Are Women Taking Over The World?

Julia Moulden | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, The Balanced Life, Women in Power, Women's Movement, Women Empowerment, Women of Power, Healthy Living News

Has -- as Moses Znaimer put it -- "the era of male dominance come to an end"? Do women -- and girls -- rule? Is this a good thing?

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Burton's Alice in Wonderland Walks in the Footprints of Five Women Named Alice

Leslie Grossman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Alice in Wonderland, Johnn Depp, Women's Suffrage, Film, Film Review, Entertainment, Blockbuster, 3-D Movies, Alice Walker, Women's History Month, Tim Burton, Entertainment News

It's exciting to see a girl portrayed in all her femininity, show courage and chutzpa, and has as the Mad Hatter calls it -- muchness.

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International Women's Day: We've Come a Long Way, Baby!

Dr. Sasha Galbraith | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Lo Hon-Cho, Kathryn Bigelow, Women's Status, Violet Charlesworth, Women's History Month, Women's Suffrage, Women in Parliament, Margaret Sanger, Karla Faye Tucker, Women's History, Working Women, Queen Elizabeth, International Women's Day, Women and Crime, Women's Day, Healthy Living News

On the 100th anniversary of International Women's Day, we celebrate the first ever female best director at the Oscars. Against all odds (and her ex-hu...

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New Jersey Senators: Are They Afraid of Gay People?

Douglas Forbes | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Homosexuality, Marriage, Women's Suffrage, Gay Rights, New Jersey, Ban on Gay Marriages, Same Sex Marriage, Gay, Gays, Civil Rights, Gay Marriage, Gay Issues, Same-Sex Marriage, Marriage Equality, Politics News

We begin with the most basic of facts. 20 New Jersey Senators appear to be afraid of gay people. Religion is not the miter in this matter. My message: Stand up and fight for equality.

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