Sexism

The First Woman US State Senator Defeated Her Polygamist Husband in the Election

Utah State Senator Martha Hughes Cannon with daughter Mattie

Despite having a conservative reputation, Utah was the first state to elect a female State Senator in 1896. In the ...

The US Once Stripped American Women of Citizenship if They Married Immigrants

Imagine accidentally losing your citizenship... simply because of the person you got married to! In the early 20th ...