A Woman's Worth

Dodai — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 16:00:00 EDT

Over on AdRants, there's a short item about a Swedish firm called Miljopartiet de grona. The company ran a print ad to make a point about how women make less money in the workforce; the campaign shows currency featuring men next to lower-value currency featuring women. The tagline: "Different gender, different worth." You'd be hard-pressed to do this awesome idea in the U.S. of A., because we barely have any females on our money.

When was the last time you even saw a Susan B. Anthony dollar? Oh, sure, they've got Sacajawea holding it down now. Love how she's trying to support a kid on that buck. Who else? The Liberty dollar features Lady Liberty but um, she's not real, right?

Meanwhile, the British pound has The Queen on it and Anna tells me there are "women on a fair number of Australian currency notes and coins." International readers! Are there chicks on your bills or coins? Let us know (or post pictures in the comments.) Oh, and don't forget to include how much a woman is worth.

Women Worth Less, and You Can Take That to the Bank [AdRants]

The Female Vote: It Was 89 Years Ago Today

Jessica — Wed, 04 Jun 2008 13:30:00 EDT

Whatever the outcome of the 2008 election, we can all still honor the fact that we are allowed to vote in the first place! On June 4th, 1919, Congress approved the women's suffrage amendment, and sent it to the states for ratification. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony had been working explicitly since 1869 to get the amendment passed, when they formed their National Woman Suffrage Association. The kernel of what would become the suffrage movement arguably started back in 1848, when Stanton and others held forth at the famed Seneca Falls convention. Stanton drafted eleven resolutions at Seneca Falls, the ninth of which, "held forth the radical assertion that it was the duty of women to secure for themselves the right to vote." In honor of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony and all the other females (and feminist males!) who fought for the Nineteenth Amendment, I have posted the Distillers' song "Seneca Falls" after the jump. Nothing gets you quite in the proto-feminist honoring spirit like listening to an awesomely growly Brody Dalle sing, "Elizabeth Cady/ Forever reminding me/I don't steal the air I breathe."

[Image via TeachNet UK]

Congress Approves Nineteenth Amendment [Library of Congress]
Seneca Falls Convention [National Portrait Gallery]

Jezebel: susan b. anthony

A Woman's Worth

The Female Vote: It Was 89 Years Ago Today