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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 17h

On this day in 1851, Indiana held its first Woman’s Rights Convention in Dublin. The activists called for woman suffrage, equal educational opportunities, and equal pay for equal work. Amanda M. Way was the group’s elected vice president. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 13/10/2026

On this day in 1897, Edith Spurlock Sampson was born. In 1950, she became the 1st African Am named to the permanent US delegation to the UN. In 1962, when she won a seat on the Chicago Municipal Court, she became the 1st black woman in the US to win a popular election for a judgeship. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

On this day in 1971, the Equal Rights Amendment passed the House of Representatives. The vote (354 to 24) was overwhelming and bipartisan. It had taken advocates almost a half century to get there. The struggle for the ERA continues to this day. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

On this day in 1884, Eleanor Roosevelt was born. As 1st Lady, she lobbied FDR to appoint more women & championed racial justice. In 1960, she chaired the President’s Commission on the Status of Women, which released a trailblazing study documenting the pervasiveness of sex discrimination. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

On this day in 1911, Cal. became the 6th state to extend equal voting rights to women. Bertha Margaret Boye created this poster for the Cal. referendum & it became the most popular poster from the woman suffrage movement. Suffragists called the poster’s yellow hue “the color of success.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

On this day in 1911, suffragists & anti-suffs prepared for a California referendum the next day. Anti-suff Harry E. Deane said: “We now feel sure that a great many men have made the women promises without any intention of voting for them.” Maybe so, but suffs narrowly won the referendum. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

On this day in 1881, Esther Lape was born. She led the effort to win Senate approval for U.S. participation in the Permanent Court of International Justice, which lost by 7 votes in 1935. She also fought the American Medical Association in mobilizing for universal health insurance. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

American law and society tend to blame deceived intimates for being deceived, in part because it is comforting to believe that only stupid and gullible people are duped. The reality is that all of us are potentially vulnerable to deception. #IntimateLies wapo.st/4ASmCYN

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Column | Why mocking romance-fraud victims only keeps more people in silence

An alleged $1.3 million dating scam shows how fake digital footprints manipulate trust.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

On this day in 1920, Kathryn Clarenback was born. She became a co-founder of the National Org. for Women & the driving force behind planning the 1977 National Women’s Conference, the first such conference the federal government had ever sponsored. #WeTheMen onwisconsin.uwalumni.com/this-womans-...

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This Woman’s Work | On Wisconsin

Kathryn Clarenbach ’41, MA’42, PhD’46 is largely unknown, but her name belongs alongside those of Betty Friedan and Gloria Steinem in the history of modern feminism.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

On this day in 1917, Fannie Lou Hamer was born. She became a civil rights crusader who risked her life in mobilizing to make the right to vote a practical reality for people of color. She asked: “Is this America, the land of the free and the home of the brave?” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

OTD in 1976, the Supreme Court heard arguments in Craig v. Boren. The all-male Court chose a trivial case w/ male plaintiffs—a challenge to OK’s sex-specific “near beer” law—to announce the standard the Ct. would apply when scrutinizing sex-based laws under the Equal Protection Clause. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

On this day in 1908, Eleanor Flexner was born. She became a pioneering women’s historian who wrote “Century of Struggle: The Women’s Rights Movement in the United States” (1959). The New York Times did not publish an obituary when she died in 1995. #WeTheMen www.nytimes.com/2020/10/16/o...

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Overlooked No More: Eleanor Flexner, Pioneering Feminist in an Anti-Feminist Age (Published 2020)

“Century of Struggle,” her 1959 history of the women’s rights movement, uncovered previously ignored narratives, like the contributions of African-American women.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

On this day in 1904, Mary McLeod Bethune opened her first school for African American students in Daytona Beach, Florida. She went on to found Bethune-Cookman College and spend a lifetime advocating for civil rights. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

On this day in 1919, President Woodrow Wilson had a massive stroke that left him severely impaired. His wife, Edith Wilson, secretly took over much of her husband’s work for the rest of his term. #WeTheMen

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Minnesota Law @umnlawschool.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Prof. Eliot Tracz of New England Law Boston reviewed @jillhasday.bsky.social’s latest book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality in Jotwell. z.umn.edu/bo0e

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

On this day in 1918, the Senate failed to pass the 19th A prohibiting sex-based disenfranchisement. Alice Paul, who led the more militant wing of the woman suffrage movement, was undaunted, contending: “This defeat is only temporary.” The Senate finally passed the 19th A on June 4, 1919. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

I really appreciate this careful and generous review of my latest book, We the Men: How Forgetting Women’s Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality (Oxford 2025). #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

On this day in 1889, the Wyoming state convention approved a constitution that extended equal voting rights to men and women. By 1914, all states west of the Rockies had adopted woman suffrage, while Kansas was the only woman suffrage state east of the Rockies. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

On this day in 2005, John Roberts became Chief Justice. Since then, US confidence in the Supreme Court has plummeted to historic lows. Many factors have contributed, including the Court’s decision to overrule Roe v. Wade and deny women the constitutional right to control their own lives. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On this day in 1918, Sen Christie Benet (D-SC) announced his opposition to amending the Constitution to prohibit sex-based disenfranchisement. This meant that the amend. could not pass the Senate that year. The 19th A finally passed the Senate on June 4, 1919, with just 2 votes to spare. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

On this day in 1839, Frances Willard was born. She became a social reformer and the president of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union, the nineteenth century’s largest U.S. organization of women. Willard championed woman suffrage and also mobilized to raise marriage ages for girls. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

On this day in 1960, British suffragist Sylvia Pankhurst died. Her radical tactics influenced the more militant wing of the American woman suffrage movement. Alice Paul, Lucy Burns & their colleagues were assaulted & arrested for picketing the White House. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

On this day in 1971, Rep. Shirley Chisholm, the 1st black congresswoman, announced her intent to run for President. She declared that she was “Unbought & Unbossed” & promised “to represent all Americans.” She won 151 delegate votes at the Dem. Convention, but McGovern won the nomination. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

Happy 9 to 5 Day! Rest in peace, Dolly.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

On this day in 1957, nine black students began their first full day of classes at previously all-white Central High in Little Rock. Entry required an armed escort from the U.S. Army, over the objection of Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus. Six girls were part of the “Little Rock 9.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

On this day in 1825, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born. She became an abolitionist, suffragist, and the first African American woman to publish a short story. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On this day in 1863, Mary Church Terrell was born. She became a lifelong advocate for racial and sex equality. In the 1910s, she picketed the White House for woman suffrage. In 1953, at age 89, she won a Supreme Court judgment that racially segregating restaurants in DC was illegal. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

On this day in 1838, Victoria Woodhull was born. She became a suffragist, “free love” advocate, and the first American woman to run for president. In 1872, as the candidate for the newly formed Equal Rights Party, Woodhull won no electoral votes from male electorate. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

On this day in 1922, women won enactment of the Cable Act, which permitted some U.S. women to keep their citizenship when marrying a foreigner. This legislative victory was a first step toward recognizing that women’s citizenship should not be contingent on which man they married. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

On this day in 1981, the Senate voted to confirm Sandra Day O’Conner’s nomination to the United States Supreme Court. O’Connor was the first woman on the Court. To date, only 6 women have served as Justices, compared to 110 men. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On this day in 1973, tennis great Billie Jean King beat Bobby Riggs, a former No. 1 ranked men’s player, in straight sets during a “Battle of the Sexes” exhibition match that drew a TV audience of 90 million. King said: “I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn’t win that match.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

On this day in 1884, the Equal Rights Party nominated Belva Ann Lockwood to run for president against Grover Cleveland. She received 4,149 votes. Unfortunately, Cleveland—who opposed woman suffrage—received 4,874,986 votes. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

OTD in 1907, Justice Lewis Powell was born. He often assumed that sex discrim—like race discrim—was over. In 1983, he could not “imagine a law firm deliberately discriminating against somebody if the firm made a judgment that the individual would increase the profits of the law firm.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

On this day in 1893, women in New Zealand won the right to vote for parliament. Nevertheless, US newspapers continued to proclaim in the decades before the 19th Amend prohibited sex-based disenfranchisement: “Our women are the freest in the world, enjoying every privilege of citizenship.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

On this day in 2020, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg died at age 87. Eight days later, President Trump nominated Amy Coney Barrett to fill the vacant seat. Barrett voted to overturn Roe v. Wade. #WeTheMen www.npr.org/2020/09/18/1...

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Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Champion Of Gender Equality, Dies At 87

Ginsburg, the second woman to serve on the Supreme Court, died from complications from cancer. Her death will set in motion what promises to be a tumultuous political battle over who will succeed her.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

On this day in 1787, thirty-nine white male delegates signed the United States Constitution. In principle, the Constitution speaks for “We the People.” In practice, powerful Americans have too often limited constitutional protections to #WeTheMen. #ConstitutionDay

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

On this day in 1928, Patricia McGowan Wald was born. She became the 1st woman on the D.C. Circuit. Clerking for her was an honor. (I also remember this couch.) Check out this oral history to learn more about Judge Wald’s amazing life and career. #WeTheMen www.law.nyu.edu/centers/ija-...

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

On this day in 1963, four black girls were killed when a bomb set by KKK members exploded under the steps of the 16th Street Baptist Church in Birmingham, Alabama. The church became a rallying site for civil rights activists, many of them children. www.nps.gov/articles/16t...

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16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963) (U.S. National Park Service)

16th Street Baptist Church Bombing (1963)

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

On this day in 1970, Gale Carrigan of the UAW spoke for the ERA & against sex-specific restraints on women’s work: “Our own experience has proven to us that those so-called state ‘protective’ laws are the real deterrents to obtaining equal pay and equal opportunity for working women.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On this day in 1948, Margaret Chase Smith won election to the Senate. She was a longtime ERA supporter & an early opponent of McCarthyism. In 1964, while running for president, she helped protect Title 7’s prohibition on sex discrimination in employment as the bill went through the Senate. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Nashville International Airport is on track to be renamed for Dolly Parton. Next time I’m visiting Tennessee, I look forward to “Departin’ from Parton.” But why are so few airports named for women? #WeTheMen www.nytimes.com/2026/09/11/t...

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Nashville Says Yes to Renaming Airport for Dolly Parton

A board voted unanimously to honor the country star, philanthropist and Tennessee native. If the effort clears all hurdles, fliers will be “departin’ from Parton.”

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

On this day in 1859, Florence Kelley was born. She became a social reformer, ran the National Consumers League, and co-founded the NAACP. She fought for women’s rights, racial equality, and better working conditions. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

This post from the 9/11 Memorial and Museum remembers some of the women who served and died on 9/11. Rest in peace. www.911memorial.org/connect/blog...

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Honoring Four Women of Ground Zero | National September 11 Memorial & Museum

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

On this day in 1920, Alice Paul urged women to mobilize in the wake of the Nineteenth Amendment’s ratification. She observed that “the fight for full equality” had “just begun” and warned: “Unless women are prepared to fight politically they must be content to be ignored politically.” #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

On this day in 1834, an angry white mob attacked the school that Prudence Crandall had opened to educate African American girls in Connecticut. The mob destroyed furniture & smashed most of the school’s windows. A few months earlier, Connecticut had arrested Crandall & placed her on trial. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

On this day in 1945, Esther Rome was born. She cofounded the Boston Women’s Health Book Collective and cowrote Our Bodies, Ourselves. Its discussion of women’s health emphasized self-ownership and empowerment. The book became an indispensable reference for generations of women. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

People are sometimes eager to investigate whether their intimates are deceiving them, in part because the law provides so few remedies after the fact. Now, a new platform, "Stud or Dud," enables people to do free background checks on intimates or anyone else. #IntimateLies nypost.com/2026/09/06/l...

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Is your date a scammer, criminal — or married? New tool helps you find out

From scam guys to cam girls, it’s a wicked world for people looking for love online.

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

On this day in 1968, feminists from New York Radical Women led a protest of the Miss America pageant in Atlantic City. The protest featured a “freedom trash can” where women could throw away “bras, girdles, curlers, false eyelashes,” etc. Contrary to myth, feminists did not burn any bras. #WeTheMen

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Jill Hasday @jillhasday.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

On this day in 1860, Jane Addams was born. She became a social reformer & the first US woman to win the Nobel peace prize. She said: “the good we secure for ourselves is precarious & uncertain, is floating in mid-air, until it is secured for all of us & incorporated into our common life.” #WeTheMen

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