Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920
Stacie Taranto, "Suffrage at 100: Women in American Politics since 1920"
English | ISBN: 1421438682 | 2020 | 472 pages | AZW3 | 15 MB
English | ISBN: 1421438682 | 2020 | 472 pages | AZW3 | 15 MB
Suffrage at 100 looks at women's engagement in US electoral politics and government over the one hundred years since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment.
In the 2018 midterm elections, 102 women were elected to the House and 14 to the Senate―a record for both bodies. And yet nearly a century after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, the notion of congressional gender parity by 2020―a stated goal of the National Women's Political Caucus at the time of its founding in 1971―remains a distant ideal. In Suffrage at 100, Stacie Taranto and Leandra Zarnow bring together twenty-two scholars to take stock of women's engagement in electoral politics over the past one hundred years.
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