Divorce was very difficult in the 1800s and there was limited legal protection against domestic violence. Following the 1867 vote, the London Society for Women’s Suffrage was formed. Their aim ...

The 1800s saw three Reform Acts (1832, 1867, 1884) extend voting rights, but there was a way to go before universal suffrage. By the 1885 General Election, 100% of women were still disenfranchised ...

In 1911, a team of three women with “lesbian-like” relationships – Jane Addams, Sophonisba Breckinridge and Anna Howard Shaw – took control of the suffrage movement, leading the nation’s ...

The seed for the first Woman's Rights Convention was planted in 1840, when Elizabeth Cady Stanton met Lucretia Mott at the World Anti-Slavery Convention in London, the conference that refused to seat ...

Deb Erdley Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 8:03 a.m. | Sunday, Aug. 16, 2020 8:03 a.m. Tennessee tipped the scales to codify women’s suffrage in the U.S. Constitution 100 years ago Tuesday, becoming the ...

Divorce was very difficult in the 1800s and there was limited legal protection against domestic violence. Following the 1867 vote, the London Society for Women’s Suffrage was formed. Their aim ...

Today marks the 89th anniversary of the 19th Amendment going into effect (which, oddly, doesn't get an artistic rendering from Google). In a few short weeks, as part of the Institute for Women's ...