I hate the history books.

Feb 03, 2007 10:44

They never include what I'm really interested in.

I Google'd my great-grandmother, Ethel Puffer Howes. She finished college in 1891, at the age of 19. She traveled to Germany to study Psychology. She completed her PhD from Harvard in 1902, but since she was a woman, her doctorate was officially from Radcliffe. She was certain that women could balance marriage and careers; she was fairly successful at it herself. She was a Suffragette, she organized the Institute for the Coordination of Women's Interests, she helped organize the Women's Land Army during the Great War.
Here's the thing that gets me. The only thing you ever read about, if it's even more than a paragraph, is the Women's Suffrage movement. It usually goes something like this: "In 1920, the 19th Amendment was passed, granting the right to vote to all women as well as men."
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