“It’s a special occasion to commemorate,” Audra Wilson, executive director of the League of Women Voters of Illinois, told me. “But the work of the league is evolution, and it’s important to also acknowledge some of the league’s challenges.”

"So here we are. At the tail end of 2019, 100 years after women earned the right to vote, attaching the word “whore” to a woman seeking public office. And then parsing its dictionary definition. And then asking newspaper readers whether the word is still defamatory if, you know, the woman had a kid out of wedlock."

Thank you for showing my daughter the world will rally around, lift up and celebrate strong, proud, fierce, unapologetic, joyful, opinionated masters of their sport, who also happen to be women.

This feels huge to me, if not to them.

“In business and in government, research supports the notion that women create opportunities for women,” Sandberg and Grant write. “On corporate boards, despite having stronger qualifications than men, women are less likely to be mentored — unless there’s already a woman on the board. And when women join the board, there’s a better chance that other women will rise to top executive positions. We see a similar pattern in politics.”

"If these women are so opposed to being hit on, why are they going to all that trouble to look so enticing? Men are just supposed to pretend they don’t notice?"