1. smithsonianmag.com

    As such, we should not talk about founding brothers or founding fathers, but a founding generation made up of both men and women. Get the latest History stories in your inbox. Email Address
  2. May 5, 2014By now we should be inured to the often flabbergasting claims of the far right, but self-styled historian David Barton has upped the ante: The Founding Fathers denied women the right to vote to ...
  3. nydailynews.com

    Abigail Adams brought issues of gender equality to the White House in 1797. She emphasized the importance of educating girls and appealed for equal rights for women and men.
  4. scholarship.law.umn.edu

    the words of choice. That would seem to imply that the Founding Fathers intended to include women in the scope of their docu-ment. That such an assumption is erroneous, however, was demonstrated in a famous exchange between Abigail and John Ad-ams in 1776. Although John Adams was not present at the Consti-
    Author:Mary Beth NortonPublished:1988
  5. yalebooks.yale.edu

    Mar 1, 2023Seated at the President's back were the Speaker of the House and the Vice President of the United States: both women—for the first time in the history of the United States. To the "founding fathers," any political voice for women would have been inconceivable. Nature made woman "delicate" and unfit for "the Arduous Care of State ...
  6. firstladies.org

    Even then, he chose to ignore her insistence on gender equality. She raised her children and managed the farm single-handedly during John's lengthy absences as a Founding Father. She struggled to suppress her opinions from unwelcome public scrutiny. ... She is remembered as a pioneering advocate for women's rights and education, and her ...
  7. americanyawp.com

    Phyllis Schlafly on Women's Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981) Jesse Jackson on the Rainbow Coalition (1984) 30. The Recent Past. Bill Clinton on Free Trade and Financial Deregulation (1993-2000) The 9/11 Commission Report, "Reflecting On A Generational Challenge" (2004) George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002) Obergefell v ...
  8. willing to grant elite women status only as republican wives or mothers, giving them influence but not power. "America's founding fathers and founding mothers," says Kann, "could not imagine rights-bearing women exercising citizens' choices or political leaders' prerogatives" (67). If elite men saw all women as apolitical at best and downright
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