Chapter 5 opens up with Relationships and looks at how far women in America have come since Abigail Adams warned John Adams – and his fellow Founding Fathers – not to overlook women’s rights if they want to avoid another revolution. The Long Road takes the reader down the road suffragettes took from the founding of the Republic to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that granted women the right to vote, win elective office, and run governments – national, state, country, city, and townships.
The chapter looks at women’s struggle to be accepted for what they are – more than just sexual objects and homemakers – and points out how women control the purse strings of household budgets, budgets of governments, and global organizations; are scientists, engineers, coders, bankers, lawyers, and, managers of all-male professional sports teams.