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To: TLBSHOW
Nobody "let" women vote, which they should have done from the start. Women fought long and hard to gain the vote.

I agree that there are not many women I would like to see in high office, including most that are there, but there are one or two that I respect and would consider voting for. Be nice to women!

126 posted on 11/18/2001 10:24:22 AM PST by wingnuts'nbolts
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To: wingnuts'nbolts
I am still doing research. The show will be on Dec 6th.

After women secured the right to vote, many former suffragists and their daughters became active in a variety of other reform initiatives, including advocacy of child-labor and child-abuse legislation, world peace, birth control, civil rights of minorities and women, conservation of natural resources, workplace safety, hour-and-wage legislation, fair labor standards, and consumer issues such as pure-food-and-drug legislation.

The papers of Belle Case La Follette, Cornelia Bryce Pinchot, Sophonisba Breckinridge, Mary Church Terrell, and Margaret Sanger provide superb examples of women's twentieth-century reform impulse.

http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/mcchtml/womhm.html

130 posted on 11/18/2001 3:32:36 PM PST by TLBSHOW
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