Changing the state of girls and women

 
BY CATHY STACKPOLE
Published: December 20, 2008

While in graduate school, I met a woman who had watched her mother and grandmother march on Washington, D.C. , for a woman’s right to vote. Today, 88 years after the United States passed women’s suffrage, our country still lags behind the world in women’s representation in government. As the 68th country in the world in electing woman officials, we don’t have much to be proud of. And to make matt...

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