Women on Election Day: Then and Now

We've heard from plenty of people who feel that, in spite of the focus on so-called women's issues, their vote doesn't matter much in this election cycle. But they couldn't be further from the truth. Women in the United States earned the right to vote less than a century ago, and our foremothers fought long and hard for the privilege. They had to put up with misogynistic propaganda, much of it in postcard form, where they were compared to whiny little girls or ugly looking spinsters -- and where the not-so-subtle message was that giving rights to women was the same as stripping them away from men. Thankfully, there were plenty of penny postcards that encouraged women to become suffragettes -- pictures that remind us that liberty and justice are both ladies worth fighting for. -- Lylah M. Alphonse, Senior Editor, Yahoo! Shine