As a child in the 1960s, way back last millennium, I did not notice that women leaders were lacking from political offices. By the time I was a teenager a few brave women had stepped forward. I then noticed. Errors of omission are the most difficult ones to spot. I had a lot of difficulty […]
Women's Councils and Committees of the Late 19th Century
Women’s History Month tributes and mentions often gloss over the time period between the Seneca Falls gathering of 1848 and what we might be tempted to think was the resumption of the suffragist movement of the early 20th Century. Of course individual women, often the same ones, are mentioned over and over every year. But […]