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The sky is now her limit

November 5, 2016 By Susannah Fox 4 Comments

The sky is now her limit

Check out this gem of a postcard from 1920, entitled: The sky is now her limit.

The detail I wish was true: that we had achieved wage equality before women gained political appointments. What is true:  The ratio of female notaries to males is 3 to 1 in some states.

Rungs of a ladder with professions and milestones listed including wage equality and political appointments.

And yes, if you can’t read it, the top rung is “Presidency.”

Source of the image: Library of Congress via Katie Casey on Twitter.

Source of the data on the notary public gender ratio (because, me being me, I looked it up): The Feminization of the Office of Notary Public: From Femme Covert to Notaire Covert  (PDF)

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  1. Kathi Apostolidis says

    November 5, 2016 at 7:34 pm

    Hi Susannah, enjoyed very much deciphering what the lady had to climb to get to notary public..and don’t be surprised, notary public is now a woman’s domain in many countries. thanks for sharing and for checking the details!

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    • Susannah Fox says

      November 6, 2016 at 4:48 pm

      Thanks, Kathi! Always great to know you’re out there, reading and giving me the international perspective.

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  2. e-Patient Dave says

    November 5, 2016 at 11:20 pm

    So many thoughts – your xylophone bumps mine, with some interesting collisions.:-)

    First, my own work lately has been focusing on another ladder – Arnstein’s Ladder of Citizen Participation, first published in 1969 – and its parallels with healthcare’s often muddled (but earnest) thinking about “patient engagement.” Feast a few moments on this page, and substitute “patient” etc for “citizen” etc. Example: how many early PFACs (pt & family engagement councils) have experienced this Arnstein line, quoted there?

    There is a critical difference between going through the empty ritual of participation and having the real power needed to affect the outcome of the process.

    Separately, image-googling your ladder led to this cartoon of a woman singing the anti-suffrage tune from the National Women’s History Museum; it resonates with some of our recent US campaign news.

    Finally, featuring both the election theme and your ladder, remember the anti-suffrage flyer from 1912, which I blogged four years ago today: in the same way many docs say “My patients aren’t asking for records access,” the flyer said to vote no on suffrage because 90% of women weren’t asking for it.

    Running things requires many kinds of competence about how things are. Leadership requires seeing could be possible, for the greater good.

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    • Susannah Fox says

      November 6, 2016 at 4:49 pm

      LOVE all of those links and resources — thank you!

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