August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, celebrating passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 granting women the right to vote. Suffrage is an ongoing theme for the two generations of women in On the Shore, which ends in 1925. On January 5, 1925 Nellie Taylor Ross of Wyoming became the first female governor in the U.S. Read more about the role of women during this era in On the Shore (see NOVELS).