Rachel Wilson

And they marched and they picketed until they had voting rights and equality in the workplace.

That's the story everyone's heard.

And it's not correct at all.

In fact, it's the opposite.

So this is hilarious.

So we had this big fight in the late 1800s between pro-suffrage groups.

and anti-suffrage groups.

Most women in the United States and England, if they were a member of either, they far outnumbered by joining the anti-suffrage groups.

They were very much against it.

It was only a small minority of women who were pro-suffrage.

And these groups would debate publicly.

They would write pamphlets.

They would write tracts.

We have a really good written historical record of what actually happened.

And women didn't want it.

They thought they had a lot of great things going on already that were going to get ruined by suffrage.

For example, here's some, let's do a little myth busting.

People have this idea that prior to the 19th Amendment, women were denied an education.

Completely untrue.

Some of the first universities in the United States were exclusively female universities and seminaries and secondary schools.