America Stands for Choice. Planned Parenthood.
On this day in 1992, over 500,000 people joined a “March for Women’s Lives” in Washington, D.C. The march highlighted the importance of abortion rights & advocated for a proposed federal Freedom of Choice Act, which would have codified Roe’s protections. Congress never voted on the bill. #WeTheMen
Susannah Medora Salter
On this day in 1887, Susannah Medora Salter was elected mayor of Argonia, Kansas, soon after Kansas women won the right to vote in municipal elections. She was the first female mayor in the United States. Men may have placed her name on the ballot as a joke; it backfired. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1920, the Democratic party convention for Pitt County, North Carolina, unanimously adopted a resolution opposing the state party’s endorsement of the Nineteenth Amendment.
North Carolina would not ratify the Nineteenth Amendment until 1971. #WeTheMen
Jane Goodall and friend.
On this day in 1934, Jane Goodall was born. She became a pioneering primatologist, conservationist & activist. She later said: “When I wanted to go and live with wild animals, everybody laughed at me.... The other scientists were scornful at first of the findings of this young girl.” #WeTheMen
Jeannette Ranking, first woman elected to #Congress before women were legally allowed to vote in US elections
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Jeannette Ranking, first woman elected to #Congress before women were legally allowed to vote in US elections
#women #politics #representation #suffragette #WeTheMen
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Jeannette Rankin
On this day in 1917, Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman elected in Congress. She told fellow suffragists: “I may be the first woman member of Congress, but I won’t be the last.”
Rankin is still the only woman to have represented Montana in Congress. #WeTheMen
The SAVE Act would disenfranchise millions of American women who changed their names after marrying. On this day in 2026, these “biblical patriarchs” think that’s a great idea. #WeTheMen
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On this day in 1950, Samuel Alito was born. He wrote Dobbs, the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision overturning Roe v. Wade. Today, 21 states have abortion restrictions/bans that would have been unconstitutional under Roe. #WeTheMen
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Abigail Adams
On this day in 1776, Abigail Adams wrote her husband John: “Remember the Ladies, and be more generous and favourable to them than your ancestors. Do not put such unlimited power into the hands of the Husbands. Remember all Men would be tyrants if they could.” He didn’t take her advice. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1972, Texas became the 8th state to ratify the Equal Rights Amendment. Texas acted just 8 days after Congress sent the ERA to the states. Hawaii, Delaware, New Hampshire, Idaho, Iowa, Kansas & Nebraska had already ratified. #WeTheMen #ERANow
On this day in 1941, Maryland finally ratified the 19th Amendment, which prohibits sex-based disenfranchisement. Maryland’s ratification vote was not certified until February 25, 1958. #WeTheMen
Our Own Twelve Anti-Suffrage Reasons 1. Because no woman will leave her domestic duties to vote. 2. Because no woman who votes will attend to her domestic duties. 3. Because it will make dissension between husband and wife. 4. Because every wife will vote exactly as her husband does. 5. Because bad women will corrupt our politics. 6. Because bad politics will corrupt our women. 7. Because women have no power of organization. 8. Because women will form themselves into a woman’s party. 9. Because men and women are so different that they must have different duties. 10. Because men and women are so much alike that men with one vote each can express themselves and us, too. 11. Because women cannot use force. 12. Because the militants can and do use force.
Alice Duer Miller
On this day in 1914, Alice Duer Miller published a poem parodying the anti-suffrage literature that presented lists of arguments against female voting. Miller was a poet, playwright & novelist. Her poem first appeared in her NY Tribune column, Are Women People? Read more about Alice in #WeTheMen.
Virginia Minor
On this day in 1875, the Supreme Court rejected Virginia Minor’s argument that the right to vote is an inherent privilege of federal citizenship. Minor v. Happersett’s insistence that the Constitution “does not confer the right of suffrage upon any one” remains in force. #WeTheMen
Abolish All Abortion Laws Now. Photo by Fred McDarrah, NYC, 3/28/1970.
On this day in 1970, more than 1500 people demonstrated for abortion rights in New York. The NY Times described the protestors as mostly “young, white and female and wearing bell-bottom pants.” At the time, New York permitted abortion only when the woman’s life was in danger. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1890, Washington state permitted women to vote in local school district elections. Washington’s legislature had previously granted women full voting rights in 1883 and 1888, but the Washington Supreme Court struck down both laws. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1974, the Supreme Court heard oral argument in Geduldig v. Aiello (1974). The Court held (wrongly!) that pregnancy discrimination is not a form of sex discrimination for purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Equal Protection Clause. #WeTheMen #PregnancyDiscrimination
Nancy Pelosi
On this day in 1940, Nancy Pelosi was born. She became the first female Speaker of the House of Representatives & one of the most successful Speakers in American history. Pelosi played a key role in enacting the Affordable Care Act. #WeTheMen
Sandra Day O’Connor
On this day in 1930, Sandra Day O’Connor was born. In 1981, she became the first woman on the Supreme Court. To date, only 6 women have served on the Court, compared to 110 men. #WeTheMen
Today is 2026’s pay equity day. The average woman working full-time and year-round had to work almost 15 months—2025, plus almost 3 months into 2026—to catch up with what the average male full-time, year-round worker made in 2025 alone. #WeTheMen #payequity #equalpay
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Gloria Steinem
On this day in 1934, Gloria Steinem was born. She became a feminist writer, editor, and co-founder of Ms. magazine. When testifying for the ERA in 1970, Steinem decried the “myth” “that women are already treated equally in this society.” More than a half century later, that myth persists. #WeTheMen
Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire
On this day in 1911, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire killed 146, inc. 129 women. They worked at a garment factory w/out sprinklers, fire doors, fire drills, fire stairs, firewalls, or other precautions against cotton’s flammability. Their bosses had violently resisted unionization. #WeTheMen
Mathilda Joslyn Gage #WomensHistoryMonth #Witches #WomensRights #WeTheMen #activist
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Ready for some feminist conversation and community building? I had a great time discussing my book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality, on the Infinite Women Podcast. #WeTheMen @infinite-women.com
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Matilda Joslyn Gage
On this day in 1826, Matilda Joslyn Gage was born. In addition to inspiring the witches of Oz, she co-wrote a Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States (1876). When men barred women from the centennial ceremony, suffragists disrupted the proceedings and distributed copies. #WeTheMen
One myth about the 19th Amendment is that it gave all women the vote. But many women, especially women of color, have been denied the vote after 1920 & battles over voting persist.
On this day in 1935, the Puerto Rico legislature finally removed the literacy requirement for female voting. #WeTheMen
On this day in 1972, Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the states. The required 38 states have ratified the ERA, but it is still not officially recognized as part of the U.S. Constitution. Why not? I tell that story in #WeTheMen. #ERANow
Ellen Ash Peters
On this day in 1930, Ellen Ash Peters was born. She survived Nazi Germany to become the 1st female law prof at Yale & the 1st female Justice on the CT Sup Ct. She later said that “a fair number” of her Yale colleagues “expected me to teach for a few years & then disappear & have babies.” #WeTheMen
Today is “National Rosie the Riveter Day.” But Congress has never designated a legal public holiday—the kind that closes federal offices—to celebrate an important woman in American history. We Can Do It! #WeTheMen #RosieTheRiveterDay #WeCanDoIt
On this day in 1852, Harriet Beecher Stowe published Uncle Tom’s Cabin, an antislavery novel that became the bestseller of the 19th century. A 2017 survey of K–12 social studies standards in the 50 states and D.C. found just 15 standards that included Stowe. #WeTheMen
