Sentences with phrase «women got the vote»

If this was a real - life scenario, my father in law would run screaming from the room — I'm pretty sure he's still upset women got the vote.

«In this 100th anniversary year of women getting the vote in New York State, New Yorkers will be able to send a strong message that they are fed up with corruption and dysfunction in Albany.»

At the weekend Hinds brought history to life and at a stroke did more than any of the recent Vote100 celebrations to show why it really matters that women got the vote a century ago.

In the United States, women got the vote in 1919 via the 19th Amendment.

It's been 100 years since some women got the vote in the UK.

We pick up the trail of the female suffrage campaigner coined «Queen of the Mob» by the press, 100 years after (some) women got the vote

Not exact matches

As it is, we've got Gloria Steinem and Madeleine Albright telling young women to vote for Clinton because she's a woman.

And for those of you keeping score at home, women got the the right to vote 97 years ago.

We should celebrate the anniversary of women getting the right to vote, but there's still work to be done.

It is the «if Ne «groes or women get the right to vote» or «if Hilary Clinton gets in...»... or even «Don't let Al Gore in..

the unborn get more rights then a living, breathing, voting woman?

I'd vote for a Mormon, Catholic, Jew, Muslim, white guy, black guy, woman, gay, midget — anyone who can get results.

One of my outside vendors told me that women get what they deserve based on who they vote for.

A candidate isn't going to get anywhere with most conservative evangelicals if they support a woman's right to chose, or if the candidate supports strict separation of church and state, and maybe even opposition to teaching Creationism is going to lose their vote.

So even though I think abortion is morally wrong in most cases, and support more legal restrictions around it, I often vote for pro-choice candidates when I think their policies will do the most to address the health and economic concerns that drive women to get abortions in the first place.

When I claim that label, I'm connecting not only with a number of active feminists who are working today to help women, but with an ongoing history of feminists who got women the vote, who made birth control happen, who got women into positions of power in the government, who worked to rectify racial inequality and fight against things like mandatory sterilization of welfare recipients.

I know that votes like these can make Christian women feel like less - than, but I believe, deep in my bones, that things will get better for women in the Church.

During the fight to get the bill passed, North Carolina lawmakers voted down amendments that would have created pro-choice alternatives such as «Trust Women.

The US is quick to jump on Iran or Pakitan, but in those countries women can: Go to School (including university), Get a job, Vote, Drive Cars, DO NOT have to wear a Burka (hijabs are RECOMMENDED NOT ENFOCED), do not have to be accompanied by a male reletive.

Well, we recently had our elections here in Rutherford County, and it's humbling and sad all at the same time ¯ humbling to see the number of folks who give themselves selfishly to causes they believe in, humbling to see men and women subject themselves to the mauling they get when they run for office, humbling to see folks waiting to vote in the heat of this miserable Tennessee summer we're having, but also sad to see how insular and crimped a lot of us have become.

Petercha, I'll vote for the person who has a clue and knows that there are no «unborn babies», that women have a right to determine what is best for themselves, and that the government has no business regulating who can get contraception.

We've managed to get women the vote in the civilized world in the last century, despite religious norms.

Once he's got the womens» vote with this latest ruse, what's he going to do to women?

I heard a journalist from the Vatican on the news yesterday saying that the next pope is going to have to draw a line in the sand to prevent women from getting ordained and voting, etc., while at the same time make women feel that they are still a part of the church.

Then they get a woman to run around with Mitt to try to get the woman vote.

I'm on the right, and while I certainly don't feel hate towards this woman, it is clear that she is just a token black for Romney to try and get some of the black vote, which he has about 0 % of at the moment.

Then we are going to try to get the Hispanics and women and Blacks and moderates to vote for either a religious extremist or a Mormon stiff in November.

«I would have and could have voted to allow that to go through, if I felt like we had tightly defined the ability for a woman and a doctor to be making this decision together and not have the Legislature get too deep in the weeds of how we would describe when that was appropriate.»

So is he going to get rid of women's right to vote too because it's not what HIS religion dictates?

As recently as the 1980s, female flight attendants in the United States could be fired if they got married, and women's right to vote wasn't universally enforced in Switzerland until 1990.

The more we vote, the more likely we are to get mom - friendly, woman - friendly policies.

When Sweden was debating nearly a century ago whether women should get the vote, one argument against it was that elections would cost twice as much!

She should get credit for taking on the Housewife's League, campaigning for women's votes in Switzerland and presenting her views in a persuasive Glaswegian style.

I'm heard that they are getting nervous about the suburban woman vote that has in recent years gone overwhelmingly for Dems.

Where once we had a great battle of ideologies in public life, between the socialist left and the capitalist right, between authoritarians and liberals, now we have only the coffee house gossip of whether Keith Vaz will get a knighthood for his vote on 42 days and the identities of the «thirty women» Nick Clegg says he has slept with.

The woman will only get the votes of those naive enough to think they can change the system, and those who are sexist enough to cast their vote based on sex instead of issues.

Since the man has won in the past, the man has more experience, and everyone else is saying they will vote for the man, the man will get nearly all the votes that would have otherwise gone to the woman.

As she declared in her maiden speech: «Women have got a vote now and we mean to use it.»

While he used the party as a way to highlight women's issues and prove his campaign's socially liberal positions — and even got Hillary Clinton to join him in touting it — critics dismissed the party as an effort to siphon votes from the labor - backed Working Families Party.

«I think these two races are going to come down to who can get the vote out,» said Libby Post of Capital Women, a progressive organization formed in response to Trump's election that's backing Doran and O'Connor.

Lt. Gov. Kathy Hochul was among a group celebrating the centennial of New York women getting the right to vote in Kenmore Sunday.

We have seen labours idea of getting women elected, thats failed, they were hand picked by Blair to vote for him not to question him.

As the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment gets closer, U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is calling for the creation of a national panel that would provide support to local interests seeking to educate people about the drive for women's voting rights.

When I asked Hochul about the change from opposing to supporting Gipson, she offered that she and Cuomo «feel very strongly that Senator Gipson will be the vote we need to get the full Women's Equality Agenda through the legislature.»

This is a con artist trying to get the women's vote when he has the worse record when it comes to hiring women in his own administration and the ones who have worked for him have all run.

Robert Rich got the nod for a second term as town justice with 1,751 votes on the Democratic, Republican, Working Families and Women's Equality Party lines; two write - in votes were cast.

He not only had Hillary, but also Bill Clinton appear at get out the vote rallies, he met with Orthodox Jewish leaders, and sent emails to women voters touting his support for the Women's Equality Act, an issue he has campaigned for in bus tours across the swomen voters touting his support for the Women's Equality Act, an issue he has campaigned for in bus tours across the sWomen's Equality Act, an issue he has campaigned for in bus tours across the state.

«This ad is made up entirely of lies because Jack Martins can't run on the truth, which is that his record consists of raising taxes in Mineola and voting against women every chance he gets.

The state Conservative Party has now codified its threat that any lawmaker who votes «yes» on gay marriage will be politically punished, passing a resolution that states «any elected official or potential candidate who does not support marriage as defined between one man and one woman» won't get Row C «in any election».

He voted against equal pay for women every chance he got in the Assembly and opposes a woman's right to choose even in cases of rape or if her life or health are in danger.