Tag Archives | Women’s history

A Last Gasp … for Women’s History Month

By on March 31, 2014 in women in politics

I wrote this post for The Shriver Report, where it originally appeared on March 21, 2014. They have kindly given me permission to post it here in full. Here is a link to its original appearance. Everything I know about how women got the right to vote in this country began with a movie called “Iron-jawed [...]

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Women Without History

By on March 18, 2013 in Uncategorized

I opened my daughter’s history book the other day and it hit me all over again. We may be in the 21st century, but our history is still the history of men. Men who were kings, who invented machines, conquered weaker nations, compelled religious conversions, made scientific discoveries, sailed to foreign lands, and slaughtered each [...]

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