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Often the most extreme sacrifices meet with the greatest indifference. Shortly after the 75th anniversary of women's suffrage, we're still wondering how many women will vote.
"Women fought their whole lives for this right," says Betsy Myers, director of the White House Office for Women's Initiatives and Outreach. "I wonder what they would think if they saw our apathy today."
Consider that in 1992, deemed the "Year of the Woman," only 62 percent of all women voted. Worse, in 1994, the number of women voting dropped by at least 10,000 in congressional districts studied by the American Association of University Women (AAUW). That year, nearly 55 million eligible women did not go to the polls.
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