The feminine mystiqe

The feminine mystique : in 1995 the passage of the 19^th amendment to the constitution’ giving women the right to vote celebrated its 75^th anniversary in the United States .It was the result of the work of two women ,Elizabeth Candy Stanton and Susan B Anthony ,who were the founders of the women’s suffrage movement. A movement that also got momentum from strong women like Sojourner Truth who was a slave sold several times over and coined the legendary phrase “Ain’t I a woman ?”and Harriet Tubman an underground railroad conductor and civil war figure . Their efforts and those of others in the rest of the world forced governments evry where to take corrective action. Newzealand gave Women the votein 1893 Finland 1903 Netherlands and Soviet Union in 1917 Great Britain in 1918 and finally Us in 1919.