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Celebrate International Women's Day: Getting the vote

Your great grandmother won this one. But she didn't get the vote without a fight, one that the Brooklyn Museum's Sackler Center for Feminist Art is celebrating in a year when Hillary Clinton is running hard for the presidency.

Clinton isn't the first to go that route, though. Back in 1872 stockbroker Victoria Woodhull was the first woman to try for the job. Almost 50 years before she and...

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