Sunday, May 10, 2015

Mothers have been a political force since the effort to pass the Nineteenth Amendment.

Anna Jarvis was the driving force behind the first Mother's Day observances in 1908.

 ...It all started in the 1850s, (click here) when West Virginia women's organizer Ann Reeves Jarvis—Anna's mother—held Mother's Day work clubs to improve sanitary conditions and try to lower infant mortality by fighting disease and curbing milk contamination, according to historian Katharine Antolini of West Virginia Wesleyan College. The groups also tended wounded soldiers from both sides during the U.S. Civil War from 1861 to 1865.
In the postwar years Jarvis and other women organized Mother's Friendship Day picnics and other events as pacifist strategies to unite former foes. Julia Ward Howe, for one—best known as the composer of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic"—issued a widely read "Mother's Day Proclamation" in 1870, calling for women to take an active political role in promoting peace....

Is there any wonder left to realize why Republicans seek to oppress the Women's Vote wherever they can. Being tied down to a domestic domain is not the place for women. The domestic domain belongs to both genders as is the birth of their children. The right for women to work with equal pay is important  to improve the circumstances of family.