It’s very interesting that throughout human history women have had to make great sacrifices in order to be counted as more than just “a piece of meat.” We can see the result of women in history who stood up for women’s rights and we are still the beneficiaries of those rights they won—SUFFRAGE…

As a result of women marching for voting rights we have the 19th Amendment to the Constitution of the United States.

Passed by Congress June 4, 1919, and ratified on August 18, 1920, the 19th amendment guarantees all American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle; victory took decades of agitation and protest. Beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, marched, lobbied, and practiced civil disobedience to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution. Few early supporters lived to see final victory in 1920.

C. Renee

Online reference: https://www.archives.gov/historical-docs/19th-amendment

Online reference: http://time.com/4081629/suffrage-parade-1915/