Looking back at the August 1920 issue of La Follette's Magazine gives me goosebumps.
It's pretty exciting to read that "17 million American women" are "fully enfranchised."
For the first time in American history, women may vote in every state in the Union for candidates for all offices...and women may hold any office now held by men, whether appointive or elective.
That's definitely worthy of a little celebration and tingly skin, right?
But a bit further down the column there's this:
The United States is among the last of the great world powers to grant the vote to women. England, Russia, Germany, Norway, Sweden, and Denmark all preceded us.
Oh dear.
Imagine how great it would be to see the U.S. leading the way in "firsts" for women. I'd even settle for the U.S. at least being among the top fifteen in providing for paid maternity leave (Hint: we're not.) We've definitely missed the first wave of nationally subsidized high quality child care.
But here's something to dream about: "U.S. first to completely close the gender wage gap."
Here's the column from the August 1920 issue of La Follette's Magazine if you want to take a peek yourself.
