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Bernie Sanders: “1920, it was when women got the right to vote.”

Featuring: Bernie Sanders, Independent | U.S. Senate, Vermont

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Bernie Sanders Interview Lex Fridman Podcast #450

Published | Video Starts at 33:01

We have women governors and senators. Not so many years ago in the United States senate, there were 98 men, two women. All right, even before that, 1920, it was when women got the right to vote. How did that change? How did women's role in society change it? Change because women and their male allies stood up in forts. (33:01–33:06)

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Asserts the year women gained the right to vote in the U.S.

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