Women and Power: We’ve Still Got a Way to Go, Baby

On Aug. 18, we will celebrate the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment, which prohibits states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to U.S. citizens on the basis of gender. Both of my grandmothers were young women in 1920, so they were directly affected. In fact, it took longer – 132 years – to achieve women’s suffrage.