| | League Of Women Voters Pasadena Area (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-31) |
 | | For the next 72 years, women waited for their national and state representatives to grant them the vote. |
 | | Catt knew women would have to be educated to their responsibilities as voters, so she founded the League of Women Voters in 1920, offering this wry explanation: "The politicians used to ask us why we wanted the vote. |
 | | During this half-century and since, the League has updated itself—we have been "coed" since 1975, for example—and it has continued to educate voters and "help make the general welfare." Through the nonpartisan, informed positions the League takes, it has earned a respected place in the nation's political debates. |
| www.lwvpasadenaarea.org (236 words) |