March 2008: Women's History Month.
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/
This is pretty intense. "Night of Terror", November 1917: First I've heard of it. Like all the great progressive social movements, from labor rights to civil rights, women's suffrage was paid for in blood and sacrifice.
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"While many of the activists in the (Women's Suffrage movement) turned during World War I either to pacifism or to support of America's war effort, the National Woman's Party continued to focus on winning the vote for women. During wartime, they planned and carried out a campaign to picket the White House in Washington, DC."
"The reaction was, as in Britain, strong and swift: arrest of the picketers and their imprisonment. Some were transferred to an abandoned workhouse located at Occoquan, Virginia. There, the women staged hunger strikes, and, as in Britain, were force-fed brutally and otherwise treated violently."
On November 15, 1917, the Warden of Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered 40 of his guards on what is now known as the Night of Terror.
"The details of the Night of Terror were the last straw. Public outrage and opposition had been building as news leaked that there were hunger strikes and forced feedings, but everything boiled to a head after the Night of Terror. Everyone from ordinary folks to politicians in Washington began to talk about the women and their plight. Demands issued from many quarters that they be released, which they finally were, on November 27 and 28 of 1917, many after nearly half a year in prison."
In January of 1918, Woodrow Wilson announced his support of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, and Congress voted on it soon thereafter, failing the 2/3 majority test by two votes. American women campaigned vigorously that election year to unseat anti-suffragist incumbents, and were successful. The amendment passed the following year, 1919, by a landslide, and started to make it's way around the country to be ratified.
mydd.com
The Best and Worst State Economies for Women
Four indicators of women’s economic progress are used by the employment and earnings composite index to measure how well women are doing in each state’s economy, which includes women’s earnings, the wage gap, women’s participation in the labor force, and women’s representation in managerial and professional jobs.
Best States
1) District of Columbia
2) Maryland
3) Massachusetts
4) Minnesota
5) Vermont
6) Conecticut
7) New Jersey
8 Colorado
Worst States
51. Arkansas
50. Louisiana
49. West Virginia
48. Mississippi
47. Kentucky
46. Montana
45 Tennessee
http://www.infoplease.com/business/best-worst-economies-women.html
http://www.history.com/minisites/womenhist/
This is pretty intense. "Night of Terror", November 1917: First I've heard of it. Like all the great progressive social movements, from labor rights to civil rights, women's suffrage was paid for in blood and sacrifice.
**************************************************************
"While many of the activists in the (Women's Suffrage movement) turned during World War I either to pacifism or to support of America's war effort, the National Woman's Party continued to focus on winning the vote for women. During wartime, they planned and carried out a campaign to picket the White House in Washington, DC."
"The reaction was, as in Britain, strong and swift: arrest of the picketers and their imprisonment. Some were transferred to an abandoned workhouse located at Occoquan, Virginia. There, the women staged hunger strikes, and, as in Britain, were force-fed brutally and otherwise treated violently."
On November 15, 1917, the Warden of Occoquan Workhouse in Virginia ordered 40 of his guards on what is now known as the Night of Terror.
"The details of the Night of Terror were the last straw. Public outrage and opposition had been building as news leaked that there were hunger strikes and forced feedings, but everything boiled to a head after the Night of Terror. Everyone from ordinary folks to politicians in Washington began to talk about the women and their plight. Demands issued from many quarters that they be released, which they finally were, on November 27 and 28 of 1917, many after nearly half a year in prison."
In January of 1918, Woodrow Wilson announced his support of the Susan B. Anthony Amendment, and Congress voted on it soon thereafter, failing the 2/3 majority test by two votes. American women campaigned vigorously that election year to unseat anti-suffragist incumbents, and were successful. The amendment passed the following year, 1919, by a landslide, and started to make it's way around the country to be ratified.
mydd.com
The Best and Worst State Economies for Women
Four indicators of women’s economic progress are used by the employment and earnings composite index to measure how well women are doing in each state’s economy, which includes women’s earnings, the wage gap, women’s participation in the labor force, and women’s representation in managerial and professional jobs.
Best States
1) District of Columbia
2) Maryland
3) Massachusetts
4) Minnesota
5) Vermont
6) Conecticut
7) New Jersey
8 Colorado
Worst States
51. Arkansas
50. Louisiana
49. West Virginia
48. Mississippi
47. Kentucky
46. Montana
45 Tennessee
http://www.infoplease.com/business/best-worst-economies-women.html
Oh wait….my girlfriend is African-american. 
