Weekend Reading on Women's Representation July 21st, 2023

Dear Readers, This week marks the 175th anniversary of the Seneca Falls Convention when suffragists and abolitionists convened to ignite the movement for women's political and social equality. A number of the convention leaders were Quakers whose belief in the "inner light" grounded their commitment to the absolute equality among all people. Elizabeth Cady Stanton began the convention with the words, "We are assembled to protest against a form of government, existing without the consent of the