Sitting with SiriusXM’s Julie Mason, Speaker Pelosi shared history lessons and personal insights on the impact of the 19th Amendment, which granted the right to vote to women in 1920. “When it came, the headlines the next day said, ‘Women Given The Right To Vote,’” Pelosi said. “No such thing. Women weren’t given anything. We marched, we starved, we made sacrifices for decades in order to achieve the right to vote.”
Trends toward parity in politics continue to improve. The 2018 midterm elections saw a record high of 105 women elected to the House of Representatives. Of those, 90 were Democrats. As she has said before, she extolled students in attendance to keep striving. “Women, know your power, and it doesn’t mean it is better than men at the table; it means we have to have everybody at the table.” Considering topics often pushed into either the male or female spheres, she hopes for a time past such dichotomies when national security is shaped by women just as much as education and healthcare are shaped by men.
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