Women’s Rights

<p>Fifty years ago, the Equal Credit Act was an important step in affording women control of their own finances.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In two dead-game spinsters who wouldn’t be unfairly taxed, the men of Glastonbury met their match and the cause of feminism found a bovine</span> cause célèbre </p>

<p><span class="deck"> Proud and independent, the farm girls of New England helped build an industrial Eden, but its paternalistic innocence was not to last</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"><span class="typestyle">One day in 1869 the gentlemen of the territorial legislature amused themselves by enacting the first woman-suffrage law. They trusted in a veto from the governor</span> </span></p>

<p>The prevailing Colonial feeling toward female education was unanimously negative. Learning to read was the first feminist triumph.</p>

<p>An interview with the famed suffragette, Alice Paul</p>

<p><span class="deck"> In forty years of scraping and scrapping for women’s rights, Abigail Scott Duniway never lost her nerve or wicked tongue</span> </p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> For millions of women, consciousness raising didn’t start in the 1960s. It started when they helped win World War II.</span> </span></p>

<p><span class="deck"> <span class="typestyle"> E.G. Lewis decided that a strong man could liberate American women and make money doing it</span> </span></p>

<p>Women’s history today is no longer a backwater; nor is the profession of history a male craft.</p>

<p><span class="deck">In 1917, fed up with the inaction of conservative suffragists, Alice Paul decided on the unorthodox strategy of pressuring the president directly.</span></p>

<p>Not given credit for their work and paid half a man's salary, women writers won a landmark suit against discrimination at the magazines of Time, Inc., but their success has been largely overlooked.</p>

<p>The ex-slave and investigative journalist spent a lifetime fighting against lynching and segregation — but also for voting rights for African-American women. </p>