In 1777, Abigail Smith Adams, wife of the second president, John Adams, wrote that women “will not hold ourselves bound by any laws which we have no voice.” She was a woman who was thinking ahead of her time. It was only on Aug. 26, 1920 was the 19th Amendment ratified, which states, “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.” Even after the 19th Amendment was ratified, women still were fighting to be treated equally with men. In 1923, Alice Paul and the National Women’s Party proposed the Equal Rights Amendment to eliminate discrimination on the basis of sex which has never been ratified. Also, it was only in 1970 that 50,000 people marched in New York City for the first Women’s Strike for Equality. In the past four years, women have been making a lot of history in the news. In 2005, Condoleezza Rice became the first African-American woman to be appointed Secretary of State and in 2008, Hillary Clinton became the only First Lady ever to run for president.