100 Years of the Women’s Vote

Lucky. Not the way Woodrow felt about black suffrage.

So what’s been accomplished in terms of female accomplishment in the big wide world they wanted their fare share of?

Has anybody been keeping track? I have. There can be no doubt they’ve been given the opportunity to compete and succeed…



How’s it working out, this drive to the top positions in the most prestigious professions?







Two additional kinds of data to provide context: 1) The primacy of engineering as an American profession, responsible for the design and manufacture of everything we need to live our modern material lives (see this old post of mine from 2019, What We Owe All Those Evil White Men)): 2) The full extent of the lack of female participation in the building and maintenance of the infrastructure specified in engineering blueprints, including their low participation rates as electricians (2.5%), plumbers (3.5%), automobile mechanics (2%), construction workers (14%), house painters (16%), bridge painters (13%), telephone linemen (5%), water and sewer workers (6%), manufacturing workers (29%), highway maintenance workers (10%), commercial pilots (5%), truck drivers (5%), train operators (3%), seafaring ship crews (2%), oil roughnecks (5%), dock workers (7%), fishermen (10%), loggers (16%), tree surgeons (8%), game wardens (26%), police officers (13%), firefighters (4%), military troops (17%), and even chefs/head cooks (23%). 


Why they’re in such dire need now of Diversity Equity Inclusion quotas. From which the rest of us are DIE’ing every day.




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