London has finally added a woman—suffragist Millicent Fawcett—to the collection of leaders commemorated with statues in…
As the United Kingdom marks the one hundredth anniversary of women’s suffrage, the Labour party wants to pardon the…
Before watching the movie The Divine Order I will admit that I had no idea that women in Switzerland did not win the…
Women of the United Kingdom head to the polls for today’s special election on a particularly fitting anniversary. It’s…
Today’s presidential contest falls the day after a major anniversary—the hundredth of the first woman’s election to…
On this day in 1920, the thirty-sixth (and last necessary) state ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, promising women the…
This just in, a dispatch from the archives: The Progressive reprints a proto-listicle from 1912, wherein Jane Addams…
Meryl Streep has just signed on to play British suffrage icon Emmeline Pankhurst in the aptly-titled Suffragette, which…
Before women were granted the right to vote in 1918 and 1920 in the UK and US, respectively, there was a very, very…
Back in the olden times, things were simpler. Serious things like voting and wearing monocles were left to the men,…
Women in Saudi Arabia got the right to vote in municipal elections this week. But is this seemingly progressive…
Saudi Arabia's King Abdullah has granted women the right to vote in the kingdom. But in a nation where elected…
Hooray for women! Saudi Arabian King Abdullah has granted women in his country the right to vote and run for public…
[Washington, D.C., August 26. League of Women Voters marches in front of the White House on the 90th anniversary of the …
That's right: on August 18th, 1920, women won the right to vote. (It became law on 8/26.) Celebrate by preparing for…
Mavis Leno, a board member of the Feminist Majority Foundation and Jay Leno's cooler half, spoke on Tavis Smiley last…
A Republican newsletter asked for help getting Rep. Betty Sutton "back in in the kitchen" where she belongs. But we're…
As The New York Times' first female op-ed editor, Gail Collins would say to portraits of her predecessors, some…
1909 was a violent year for the women's suffrage movement. "The most serious incident," says author Andrew Rosen,…
It's come to light that scores of Englishwomen risked prosecution by refusing to participate in a 1911 census, to…
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