Rachel Wilson

Just with the right to vote?

Yeah.

Why?

Just with the right to vote.

Why couldn't you keep all those things and just be able to participate?

Well, unfortunately, they were right.

So one really good example is the Women's Temperance Movement movement.

You guys remember prohibition.

That was primarily women who pushed for prohibition.

It was the Women's Temperance Union.

It was like a Christian movement to ban alcohol.

And women didn't have the right to vote, but they got prohibition passed, which was huge.

Like it was one of those things that nobody thought was even going to happen.

And it happened largely because of their prohibition.

political motivation.

And the reason that it worked is because they could go to Congress or they could go to the Senate and say, we're not a political voting bloc.

We have a moral high ground from which to ask for these things because you can't buy our vote.

You can't, you know...

like offer us things and kind of seduce us into voting for you based on promising us things that we want.

And they didn't want to lose that because they felt like they had a lot of influence.