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NEW REPUBLIC from the stacks IN THE SPRING OF , Montana pacifist and suragette Jeannette Rankin became the first woman sworn in to Congress. That year, women in 18 states could vote for president. Yet, as the founding editors of the ­ pointed out, most newspapers seemed to think their female readers were only interested in recipes for jam tarts, cures for wrinkles, and instructions for “the pickling of young cucum- bers.” Rankin had run on a platform of social welfare and women’s surage, but the press focused on her household duties and fashion sense: “The exact nuance of her hair was controversial newspaper matter for weeks after her election,” the editors lamented. A century later, as the nation weighs whether to elect its first female president, it is remarkable how much the media still judge women in poli- tics by their appearance rather than their achievements. Over her long career, Hillary Clinton has been criticized for everything from her pantsuits to her makeup. As she noted only four years ago, her hairstyle—like Rankin’s before her—“is one of the great fascinations of our time.” But Clinton made her peace with such non- sense years ago. “If I want to knock a story o the front page,” she quipped back in 1995, “I just change my hairstyle.” Jeannette Rankin at a rally in New York, 1924. The Editors According to Gender SEPTEMBER , The press could really accomplish something paragraphs that she made her own hats almost pathetic relief. Domestic anarchy by giving a definite page to the record of and dresses and a certain “wonderful may darken the future, but one of its har- women’s hopes and achievements as citi- lemon meringue pie.” bingers can make lemon meringue pie and zens of the world. The suffrage problem, the One New York advocate of woman suf- the cataclysm is at least postponed. trade union problem, the equal pay for equal frage writes enthusiastically of a speech That this was the natural position to take work problem, all these and others are being made by Miss Rankin at a gathering in her against the first feminine interlopers, one precipitated by the war, and they furnish honor: “Her white chiffon dress fluttered can easily understand.