“You can vote? But you are woman?…In Kazakhstan, we say God,
man, horse, dog, woman, then rat and then small [crustacean].”
Those are Borat’s words when discovering a female head-of-
household was allowed to vote, during a door-to-door meet-and-
greet alongside congressional candidate, James Broadwater, in a
segment for “Da Ali G Show.” Although humorous to think even his
country hadn’t caught up with the times, there was an era in
which even the United States ignored a woman’s right to vote. It
wasn’t until 1920 when the 19th Amendment went into affect. That
was right in the middle of when Amelia Earhart was in pursuit of
becoming the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean,
thus breaking down another wall in the crusade for equal rights.
As far back as she could remember, Amelia Earhart always wanted
to fly planes. She’d stare up at them from the ground,
surrounded by hayfields as the iron giants flew up above. No
fear was struck in her, unlike the classic scene from North By
Northwest, but more of