Focus (Forum & Focus)
Jan. 17, 2008
Clearing the Way
Forum Column - By Elaine Elinson - Today's female politicians can thank a little-known Jewish suffragette from San Francisco for advancing women in politics.
By Elaine Elinson
This article appears on Page 6.
The shop girls who gathered for lunch at the Votes for Women Club on Sutter Street probably never imagined that a century later their state would be represented by two women senators, and that the third-highest elected office in the land would be held by a woman from San Francisco.
These possibilities, however, may not have...
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