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December 27, 2020 GMT AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) — The U.S. Senate has passed a proposal to establish a museum honoring the history of American women that was proposed by senators from Maine and California. Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine and Democratic Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California proposed “The Smithsonian Women’s History Museum Act,” which passed the Senate as part of a year-end funding package. The museum would be located in Washington, D.C., the senators said. The Senate passed the proposal a little more than 100 years after the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to t...

The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement Deborah Cohen © Provided by The Atlantic Illustration by Valerie Chiang; images from Hulton Archive / Shel Hershorn / Gado / Getty; Associated Press This article was published online on December 20, 2020. Women’s-suffrage campaigners and their equally adamant opponents were in full agreement on one fundamental point: Giving women the vote would change everything. It would end poverty, and wars, too! So promised Britain’s militant suffragists, envisioning a civilization in which the patriarchy was upended and society’s evils wer...

Aug. 18 marked a century since the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in the U.S. Marilyn McLeod, the League of Women Voters of Columbia-Boone County president, spoke to the Boone County Muleskinners on Friday — four months after the anniversary — about women’s suffrage, the progress that has been made and what is still to come. McLeod explained to the Muleskinners the controversy that is women’s rights and why it took so long for women to gain the right to vote: “People have trouble with change.” “Here were these wo...