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Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts) Sun Jan 21, 2018, 10:20 AM Jan 2018

110 yrs ago today; NYC passes Sullivan Ordinance making it illegal for women to smoke in public

...but it was vetoed by Mayor McClellan 2 weeks later.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_Ordinance

The Sullivan Ordinance was a municipal law passed on January 21, 1908, in New York City by the board of aldermen, barring the management of a public place from allowing women to smoke within their venue. The ordinance did not bar women from smoking in general nor did the ordinance bar women from smoking in public, only public places. Right after the ordinance was enacted, on January 22, Katie Mulcahey, the only person cited for breaking this ordinance, was fined $5 for smoking in public and arrested for refusing to pay the fine; however, the ordinance itself did not mention fines nor does it ban women from smoking in public. She was released the next day. The mayor at the time, George B. McClellan Jr., vetoed the ordinance two weeks later.

Yesterday's marches prove (to use a tagline from an old Virginia Slims ad) you've come a long way, baby.

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110 yrs ago today; NYC passes Sullivan Ordinance making it illegal for women to smoke in public (Original Post) Dennis Donovan Jan 2018 OP

Yes, we've come a long way Ohiogal Jan 2018 #1

So very true. Dennis Donovan Jan 2018 #2

Yes, women do not yet have full equal rights. Why does it take mankind so long to evolve? Irish_Dem Jan 2018 #3

Ohiogal

(32,057 posts)

1. Yes, we've come a long way

Reply to Dennis Donovan (Original post)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 10:28 AM

Jan 2018

But we still have a lonnnnng way to go ....

Right wing men want to control our health care decisions ..... stop insurance from paying for our birth control ..... help themselves to our bodies under the belief that "boys will be boys and you ladies just prove irresistable to us".

First and foremost, I still think many men just can't accept the idea of a woman President.

Sometime I wonder if we are indeed living in the year 2018.

Dennis Donovan

(18,770 posts)

2. So very true.

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 10:33 AM

Jan 2018

It was very heartening to see the marches were even larger than last years. It proves that the issues you noted will not be forgotten very soon.

Irish_Dem

(47,382 posts)

3. Yes, women do not yet have full equal rights. Why does it take mankind so long to evolve?

Reply to Ohiogal (Reply #1)

Sun Jan 21, 2018, 10:38 AM

Jan 2018

Inequity and discrimination in health care, reproductive rights.

Violence towards women seen as acceptable.

Discrimination in the work place in terms of pay and advancement, sexual harassment.

We have come a long way in the last 100 years, but we are far from where we need to be.

Why is it so hard for humans to do the right thing?

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