Gender: Formal Political Power

What if I told you... I photoshopped the same face onto every man behind Trump. Would you have noticed if I hadn't said anything? #GOPclones ~ @AwkwardHolland

"The first woman presidential candidate on the ballot nationwide in US was Lenora Fulani in 1988. #BlackWomenDidThat" In the 1988 United States presidential election, Fulani was the New Alliance Party candidate. She became the first woman and the first African American to achieve ballot access in all fifty states. She received more votes for President in a U.S. general election than any other woman in history until the 2012 election when Jill Stein was the candidate for the Green Party.

The descendants of U.S. founding figures gathered to recreate this iconic painting 241 years after the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and in doing so, they helped illustrate the true diversity of the country. Artist: (top) “Declaration of Independence” by John Trumbull, 1819; Photo credit: (bottom) Ancestry, July 2017.

Sex and Power: How Women are Represented in Global Politics Members of Parliament: of 46,056 elected upper and lower parliamentarians globally, 8,990 are women (slide 4 of 6) Source: CIA World Fact Book and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Sex and Power: How Women are Represented in Global Politics Women parliamentarians in upper and lower houses by region (slide 5 of 6) Source: CIA World Fact Book and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Girls and the Big Picture Percentage of Women in High Political Office - Share of parliamentary seats held by women in 2013 Source: United Nations development program / Christopher Groskopf / NPR

"Women hold less than 17% of US House and Senate seats."

Sex and Power: How Women are Represented in Global Politics (slide 1 of 6) Source:CIA World Fact Book and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Sex and Power: How Women are Represented in Global Politics Presidents and Prime Ministers. Of the 179 serving as heads of government, 14 are women. That's 7%. (slide 2 of 6) Source: CIA World Fact Book and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

Sex and Power: How Women are Represented in Global Politics Presidents and Prime Ministers. Nine of 152 heads of state are women -- just under 6%. 14 countries have no women in cabinet positions. (slide 3 of 6) Source: CIA World Fact Book and International Foundation for Electoral Systems

(1 of 3) Why We Still Need Women's Equality Day 95 years after women got the right to vote, the U.S. government is still only about 20% female. Sources: Center for American Women and Politics: Clinton Foundation No Ceilings Report: U.S. Census

(2 of 3) Why We Still Need Women's Equality Day Women's Representation in 2015 AT THE FEDERAL LEVEL -3 out of 9 Supreme Court Justices are women -104 out of 535 members of Congress are women -84 out of 435 (19%) are women -20 out of 100 (20%) are women AT THE STATE LEVEL -6 out of 50 governors are women -256 out of 1,393 mayors are women -1,793 out of over 7,000 (24%) state legislatures are women Sources: Center for American Women and Politics

Yes, Men Are Better Political Leaders Than Women Percentage who agree or strongly agree with the statement: "On the whole, men make better political leaders than women do." Source: NPR / World Values Survey Wave 6 (2010-2014) / David Eads and Christopher Groskopf

"Women should...not teach bible"

Women's Suffrage - Wyoming was the 1st to permanently grant full voting rights to women in 1890. For more than a decade, women could vote in only four western states. By 1910, the National American Woman Suffrage Association a nd other groups had grown more organized in lobbying states for voting rights. With many women's groups supporting the war effort, 23 states extended voting rights to women leading up to passage of the 19th Amendment. Source: National Constitution Center/US House…

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From the end of September 1909, forcible feeding was the common practice of dealing with hunger-striking suffragettes who were protesting against the government’s refusal to recognise them as political offenders. Some commercial publishers considered it a suitable subject for a comic postcard, seen here

Rank and file suffragettes were most frequently portrayed as ugly, flat-footed, emotionally embittered and man-hating spinsters, as in this postcard titled ‘At the Suffragette Meetings You Can Hear Some Plain Things – and See Them Too!’

"Female Suffrage, Male Suffering," John Bull thinks it scarcely necessary that ladies who are already all mouth should have any voice in public matters, June 12, 1875.

"Woman’s Rights," 1910 USA

"Vote for the Celebrated Man Tamer"

“If you will only marry me you can have all woman’s rights. Such as staying up on evenings when I’m out late at nights. And should such things not satisfy the longings of your soul. You can wash up all the dishes and carry all the coal. As a really model husband I feel I’m bound to shine. So say that you take me to be Your Valentine.”

"Beauty and Intellect are superior to brute force"

"We Don’t Know What We Want But We’ll Get It"

This is "the house" that man built And these are a few of the ladies of fame Anxious to write M.P. after their name With each sex on a par, why put up the bar? For M.P. means either mama or papa, Quoth the sweet suffragette we're entitled to get Into "the house" that man built.

"A perfect woman, nobly planned / To warn to comfort & command."

The Suffragette - "I told you so." “The Morning Suffragette Bulletin. A New Era of Prosperity at Hand. With the news that a suffragette has been elected as our next presidentess, several flatiron and rolling pin factories have resumed on full time. It is stated that 10,000,000 faltirons have been ordered by the new War Department alone.” Artist: Walter Wellman, 1909

Queen of the Poll

"Suffragettes who have never been kissed" c.1910 UK

"Nobody Loves Me -- Guess I'll Be a Suffragette"

"Did I save my country for this!"

Women who are young, low-income, elderly, disabled, WOC, + Trans are affected most by voter ID laws Artist: Ashley Lukashevsky

"We Want the Vote," 1910 UK

"Animal nature same the world over - 'What do you think of the old suffragette trying to crow?!" 1911.

People are visiting Ida B. Wells tombstone to pay their respects and affirm that they exercised their right to vote, November 2016. Photo credit to Dira Sudis

"What I would do with the suffragists."

"What Will Men Wear When Women Wear Pants," c.1915 USA

(3 of 3) Why We Still Need Women's Equality Day WOMEN'S VOTER TURNOUT -Women have voted more than men in every presidential election since 1980 (71.4 million women voters in 2012 vs. 61.6 million men) -Almost 64% of eligible women voted in 2012, compared to almost 60% of eligible men. POLITICAL REPRESENTATION -Since 1995, the percentage of women in national legislatures has almost doubled worldwide, but still only 22% of all national elected representatives are female.

Votes in the Alabama Senate Special Election by Gender and Race, December 2017 Source: The New York Times / Associated Press

What 2016 would look like if just men voted Source: Based on the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast

What 2016 would look like if just women voted. Source: Based on the FiveThirtyEight polls-only forecast