Love the changing faces of women’s history video in your “Women’s Reality and History” post.

Certainly there are some who put way too much importance on one day. While there are those who scorn such celebrations. For most, it is simply a day to remind each other what is important – caring for each other.

To tell you the truth, I wasn’t sure March was Women’s History Month until last week. On the whole, I don’t think most women have paid much attention to it. But its a shame. Especially after this last year or so and all the negating of women and their abilities and accomplishments.

Maybe it’s just me. And the mind set I am in at this point in my life. But I for one wouldn’t mind seeing a lot more celebration of Womanhood.

There is an African American columnist, Rochelle Riley, in the Detroit Free Press who is opposed to Black History Month because it relegates focus on Black history only to that month and feels their accomplishments should be fully integrated into everyone else’s accomplishments and given equal status.

By segregating the accomplishments of a certain group of people one could argue that it further reinforces their minority and second class status.

That is why I don’t like either… it makes it seems like we aren’t *part* of ALL the history.

Remember when Obama tried to discredit Hillary by saying all she did was have tea parties? Well, look what can happen at tea parties!

Sometimes, I feel in addition to deliberate planning for advancement, we need an icebreaker event — a woman thrust into the highest office for whatever reason but proves how women can also rise to the occasion to dispel any doubt anybody has. In Hillary we had all of it — with her prior proximity to the office she knew exactly what she was getting into; she had the ambition, the intellect and most of all courage. But a whole bunch of men and a few misguided women could derail that prospect by usurping a type parliamentary system in a non-parliamentary democracy to negate the people’s choice.

You know, it is really sad that the faces of women suffragettes are nowhere near as recognizable as men from comparable times in history.

Where would we be without them?

Great to hear from you. I too had high hopes for this past election. And was extremely disappointed.

Your comment on Indira Gandhi was interesting that she was picked (needed) for the wrong reasons… it got me thinking.

I’m not sure much in life is changed until someone perceives a need for it.

Maybe that is now our challenge for the women’s movement (and advancement). Maybe we have to shown the world that -

WOMEN ARE NEEDED.

From progressive city women to rugged frontier women!

And Every walk of life.

They did us proud!

Yes, they did!

I too was surprised and impressed at Wyoming leading the way on giving women the vote. I’ll bet there is a good story behind that. I can’t image there wasn’t a good and compelling reason that the powers that be wanted and needed the women folk to vote.