Huzzah! Huzzah! The Progressive Era is part of my research and I'm always wildly impressed with the work that women did in that time period. It's a bit of an embarrassment that we don't know more about the disparate strategies used to get the vote at the local, state and federal levels.

Whenever I get to vote, I think about all those women (and my MIL who was born before women were allowed to vote). It's an honor to vote.

Word. This is my favorite Tshirt that I own:

http://www.marriedtothesea.com/061006/i-hate-voting.gif

Sorry to be the requisite nitpicker, but suffragette was actually a dismissive term dreamt up by male newspaper editors. The women themselves preferred to be called suffragists.

Although given that that newsletter cover appears to by women's voting advocates themselves, maybe my info is wrong...

THANK YOU SarahWonks - you totally beat me to it :-D

The suffragists, however, also deserve a huuuuuuuuuuuge THANK YOU. Seriously - the best part of turning 18 was that I did it just a few days before that year's election- and I got to cast my vote for my state's first female governor. Best birthday present EVER.

Of course, this is bearing in mind that some of the most prominent campaigners for the right of women to vote, including Stanton, were known racists who would occasionally resort to such tactics as pointing out that they in their caucasian wisdom could counteract all those newly enfranchised slave men.

We are bearing that in mind, aren't we?

Yay! Thanks to all those women and their supporters.

And yet 80 years later we are just getting our first viable female candidate, an she is continually held to different standards than her male opponents.

I mean, clearly without them we wouldn't even be having this conversation, but we also need to remember that it's a fight that's far from over.

I cry every time I watch Iron Jawed Angels.