The Real Legacy of the Suffrage Movement
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...