OPINION: 'Given current talk of cancel culture and political divisions – and claims our country has never, ever been this bad – you might think we all once lived in blissful harmony. That’s nostalgic bunk. The course of history has…
The song “I Am Woman” seems to be making something of a comeback, as debates rage and elections turn on the issue of abortion and women’s rights.
It was roughly 100 years ago that women, after a battle of several decades, finally won the right to vote nationwide. It was a mean and demeaning fight — one that succeeded when it did primarily because the forces that wanted a Constitutional amendment to ban alcohol saw political advantage in collaborating with those fighting for women’s suffrage.
Women couldn’t get credit cards, couldn’t work in certain professions, and were fired from jobs they could get to make room for men. They were typically paid less, and they were refused promotions and managerial roles. That was true, but The Hays Daily News had benefited from a woman boss years before I ever came on the scene . Leota Motz, the wife of the paper’s founder, Frank Motz, served capably as publisher for more than a decade after her husband’s death in 1958.I never knew her, but from what I could learn, she was smart, competent and traditional, always giving way to the men, or pretending to.
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