Hi everyone, it's Kate here. I hope you're all doing okay. I'm dropping in today because I miss you,

and I also want to share another show from Wonder Media Network that I think you'll like.

100 years ago, the 19th Amendment protecting women's constitutional right to vote was ratified.

But American women's battle for the ballot began long before

then and continues to this very day. On She Votes, a new podcast from Wonder Media Network,

award-winning journalist Lynn Shearer and Ellen Goodman unravel the complex history of the women's

suffrage movement, from the unintended limits of the 19th Amendment

to the return of voter suppression. Shevotes shares a historical narrative that carries profound

relevance today. As we exercise our right to vote in another landmark election year, travel

back in time with She Votes to understand the long and continued fight for women's

place at the ballot box. As a special treat, we're going to play the first episode for you here.

If you like it, you can hear the rest of them on the she votes feed, wherever you get your

podcasts. And as always, let us know what you think. I love hearing from you,

and you can find me at Ord Equality on Twitter. Hey, Lynn, I woke up this morning thinking about

our mothers, Shirley and Edith. Nobody names their kids Shirley and Edith anymore. And I was sort of startled,

really, to remember that both of our mothers were born before women could even vote.

Not because they were too young, not because they weren't citizens, not because they were

convicted felons. They couldn't vote because they were

female. I think that's why we decided to tell the story, actually the stories of our foremothers

and just what they went through, how they kicked and fought and organized and struggled.

I think, didn't we assume that it was somehow inevitable? I mean, of course women

would get the right to vote. You know, everything looks inevitable in hindsight, or this did for sure.

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