It involves the United Nations, the Socialist Party, Sarah Lawrence College and a struggle for equal rights.

Misty Cross stood on the porch of 2928 Magnolia St. in Oakland, Calif., addressing a crowd of supporters that filled the sidewalk and spilled into the street. She linked arms with Dominique Walker, her housemate. In the days that followed, the crowd on Magnolia Street would grow, requiring the women to speak into a megaphone for their voices to be heard.

Before the ratification of the 19th Amendment 100 years ago, which granted some women won the right to vote, the Constitution was written as if women "didn't exist." That's how Catharine MacKinnon, a leading feminist legal scholar, described the highest law of the land at a Duke Law School event on Monday in Washington, D.C., commemorating women's suffrage.

Two months ago, Justice called the front desk of the North Carolina hotel she was living in and said, shakily, "I have a baby in my arms." It was her baby, and she had just given birth in the hotel bathroom. Soon, the paramedics burst into her room.

It's official: Women now hold the majority of jobs in the paid workforce. When employment numbers from the latest Labor Department report were calculated, they revealed that women hold 50.02 percent - the majority - of all non-farm jobs for the second time in United States history.