Lucy Macfarlan

This Photograph was taken on August 26th 1920, when the 19th amendment was passed, granting women the right to vote. The joy and pride that these women felt in this monumental accomplishment is evident in their smiles and triumphant flags raised in the air. To me and to many women the addition of this amendment, and by extension this photograph, represent the beginning of women's voices finally being heard. The women in the photograph and their mothers and grandmothers had been denied a right that was seen as second nature to most men. They fought a long and difficult battle to put themselves and their posterity in a position to make a change to the existing patriarchal social order, and set the ball rolling for women of the future to continue to narrow the gender gap (more of a giant chasm really) and to push for women's rights in the workplace, home, etc.