Histoire des femmes aux États-Unis: enfin un musée sur le National Mall?

Vrai que si on considère la faible représentation des femmes dans les nombreux monuments de la capitale nationale et qu'on considère le fait que c'est bien souvent l'argent de tous les payeurs de taxes qui sert à entretenir ou à aménager les sites, il est plus que temps que l'histoire des américaines soient mieux représentée. Est-ce pour augmenter leur chance de reconquérir un électorat féminin qui leur échappe que les républicains ont soudainement cesser leur obstruction à un tel projet?

 "A Republican co-sponsor, Representative Marsha Blackburn, a conservative from Tennessee, hails the project as one created “by the women of this nation for the women of future generations.” With so many museums and causes now dotting the capital scene, many subsidized with taxes, an institution dedicated to women in history is long overdue. Senate sponsors, led by Barbara Mikulski of Maryland and Susan Collins of Maine, note that fewer than 5 percent of the country’s 2,400 National Historic Landmarks chronicle women’s achievements.

 Only nine of 210 statues in the Capitol are of female leaders. Soon after the statue of the three suffragists was completed in 1921, opponents in an all-male Congress banished it and had its inscription, which lawmakers denounced as “blasphemous,” removed. It read: “Woman, first denied a soul, then called mindless, now arisen, declared herself an entity to be reckoned.”

  http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/opinion/a-womens-history-museum-at-last.html?ref=opinion