Difference between revisions of "328--Week 7 Questions/Comments"
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Very practical address by Catt. You have to be inside the system in order to have real power. In those days, it meant gaining access to the "smoke-filled" rooms where the party machinery made decisions that affected people's everday lives. Phil Novalski. | Very practical address by Catt. You have to be inside the system in order to have real power. In those days, it meant gaining access to the "smoke-filled" rooms where the party machinery made decisions that affected people's everday lives. Phil Novalski. | ||
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| + | I think Catt was right on target when she wrote this piece. She mentioned that getting the vote was not the end of the battle for women. Women still had to convince the men that they too could be competent in the political arena, and the only way to do this was by becoming active. Women may have won the right to vote, but had nowhere reached equality, and were still excluded from being involved in political parties, exclusively banned from any leadership roles within the party, and even banned from performing what we now consider our civic duty - serving on a jury. Women have made so much headway since the 1920s, but still seem to fighting the same battle of gender equality. ~Juliann Boyles | ||
== Doris Stevens [pro] and Dr. Alice Hamilton [anti] debate the ERA, 1924 in the Forum. == | == Doris Stevens [pro] and Dr. Alice Hamilton [anti] debate the ERA, 1924 in the Forum. == | ||
