Why Every Woman Should Vote!

Admittedly, I am rather cynical and largely unimpressed when it comes to politicians and the nonsense that typically accompanies the whole process of electing leaders.

However, I am passionate about the need for women to vote.

Why?

Because for the first time in the history of the world, women have a voice.

As we look at the history of our human experience in this world, it is only in the last hundred years that women have had a voice; a say in what happens in their lives, communities, and country.

The experience of women having a voice and being able to vote is a completely new human development!

It is easy to forget that women did not always have a voice let alone equality.*

Women were not always thought of as equal human beings. In fact they were often considered not fully human; sort of a not-fully formed man.

Since the beginning of recorded human history women were treated as less than equal. Women could not always attend college, be educated, or work in most jobs. Women could not always participate in the arts or athletics, let alone government, business, law, or religion.

It took thousands of years for the consciousness of humankind to evolve to a place where women were understood as full human beings capable of thoughts, opinions, and ideas that mattered; to a place where it mattered to have women's creativity, intelligence, and talents honored and respected.

More recently, in the United States of America, it took a century of women fighting, struggling, and working to change the Constitution to accept women as worthy of a voice.

As a reminder, it was less than one hundred years ago, in 1920, the nineteenth amendment to the United States Constitution passed a law allowing women to vote.

This is incredible!

And yet, 20,000,000 unmarried women in the US did not vote in the last general election.

Come on ladies....

In honor of our forebearers who devoted their time, energy, and lives to give us an equal voice, lets get out and vote!

November forth... VOTE!




To read more about the struggle for women's rights read...What Happened to Feminism?

* I do realize that in much of the world, and even in many communities and belief systems, women still do not have a voice and are a long way from living in a world of equality.