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# Cartoon Analysis: "Discriminated Against" This cartoon satirizes women's unequal political rights. The silhouette shows a woman at a voting booth while a man sits comfortably at home, seemingly unconcerned. The accompanying text states: "You have political equality as between the sexes in Montana, I believe?" Response: "Far from it. A woman gets only about half as much for her vote as a man gets." **The satire:** Despite legal voting rights, women's political influence was treated as worth significantly less than men's—suggesting that formal equality masked real discrimination in how votes were weighted or valued. The cartoon highlights the gap between nominal rights and actual power during the early 20th-century women's suffrage era.
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