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The fight for women's suffrage in Montana started earlier, before even Montana became a state. In 1887, women gained the right to vote in school board elections and on tax issues. In the years that followed, women battled for full, equal suffrage, which culminated in a year-long campaign in 1914 when they became one of eleven states with equal ...
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In total since 1889, eight women have served in Montana House leadership. [25] There has never been a female House Speaker. [25] In the 67th Legislative session (2021), of the four Montana Senate leadership positions, only the Senate Minority Leader was a woman, Democrat Jill Cohenour. [25]
Suffrage supporters contacted Montana newspapers every week about the vote. [44] They sent out around 100,000 letters and sent personal letters to farmers in the state. [35] [40] Thirty-thousand copies of "Women Teachers of Montana Should Have the Vote" were printed and passed out by the Missoula Teachers' Suffrage Committee.
Pan-American Conference of Women, 1922, Baltimore, Maryland; All India Women's Conference, founded 1927, today over 100,000 members; International Conference for Women Leaders, biennial conference in Israel, first held 1961; International Conference of Women Engineers and Scientists, 1964, New York, USA, series of ongoing conferences every 3 ...
A Republican Senate candidate for a key race that could decide which party controls the upper chamber is coming under fire after he was caught on tape for calling women under the age of 25 ...
The youth plaintiffs in the landmark legal case saw for themselves how a volatile climate was making life worse in their state. Here, they tell Cosmopolitan why they wanted to hold their ...
It was the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee's unofficial campus news outlet and served as the primary source of student news, collegiate athletics and on- and off-campus events and issues for students and alumni. From the 1980s to the early 2000s, it competed with other campus papers, including the UWM Times, the Sun and the Leader.