Suffragists Won The Right to Vote A Full 100 Years Ago: Now It’s Time To Elect 4 More Democrats For Women To Have Equal Pay

Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, Sponsor of “The Paycheck Fairness Act”.

On August 18, 1920 Tennessee State Legislator Harry Burn cast the tie-breaking vote for Tennessee to be the 36th State to ratify The 19th Amendment. We now know that his Suffragist mother, Febb Ensminger Burn’s last minute letter to her 24 year old son, was the cause. Harry had been against ratification but her mom’s words to “Be a good boy” and to “Vote for Suffrage” did the trick.

After the vote, Harry Burn said the following:

“I knew that a mother’s advice is always safest for a boy to follow and my mother wanted me to vote for ratification. I appreciate the fact that an opportunity such as seldom comes to a mortal man to free 17 million women from political slavery was mine.”

But, 100 years after the ratification of The 19th Amendment giving women (at least White women) equal citizenship and the right to vote, women still do not have equality in the workplace. Wider for women of color and women in executive level roles, women make only $0.81 for every dollar a man makes.

But a fierce advocate for women’s rights, 77 year old Congresswoman Rosa DeLauro, D-CT, “The RBG of The House of Representatives”, has spent the last 20 years trying to fix that.

And on March 27, 2019, less than three months after Nancy Pelosi and the Democrats took over The House, Democrats passed HR7, her “Paycheck Fairness Act”.

The vote was embarrassingly partisan.

EVERY one of the 235 Democrats vote FOR it.

Only 7 Republicans join them. 187 Republicans vote AGAINST equal pay for women.

But “The Paycheck Fairness Act” CAN become law with the election of just 4 more supporters on November 3, 2020. By electing just 3 more Democrats to The United States Senate and 1 Democrat to The White House, this bill will be brought up and almost certainly passed in early 2021. Three more Democrats will give Democrats a 50–50 tie in The Senate. Democratic Vice-President Kamala Harris would break that tie and her running mate, Joe Biden, will — 100% — sign it into law.