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“These Very Impelling Reasons Against My Running”: Maine Women And Politics, Mary Cathcart
“These Very Impelling Reasons Against My Running”: Maine Women And Politics, Mary Cathcart
Maine Policy Review
In the Margaret Chase Smith Essay Mary Cathcart reflects on women in politics and describes her own trajectory in coming to serve in the Maine House of Representatives and the Maine Senate. She discusses the upcoming (2009) launch of the Maine NEW Leadership program at the University of Maine, a national education program for college women
The Boundaries Of The Role Of Women In Political Life, Erin Flynn
The Boundaries Of The Role Of Women In Political Life, Erin Flynn
Maine Policy Review
Each year, the Margaret Chase Smith Library sponsors an essay contest for Maine high school seniors. We feature here Erin Flynn’s 2008 first place prize-winning essay. Students were asked to assess whether the ideals of the 19th Amendment, granting voting rights to women, have been fulfilled and to discuss the social and cultural barriers remaining for women to overcome in the pursuit of political power, long after legal barriers to equal participation have been removed.