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= Political Women in the Salt Lake City Area (1800-1900's) =

Lora Loretta Woodland Tanner
Tanner was a member of the Utah State Legislator from 1927-1928 and 1931-1932. She was born June 10, 1857. Having studied at Brigham Young College, Logan, she became the first female graduate of the college in 1887 and went on to pursue her continued education at Brigham Young University and the University of Utah. As a state legislator, she was the chairman for the House Steering Committee and sponsor for the Kindergarten Bill. She was a member and leader in several female and co-ed political organizations in the Salt Lake City Area, including the Womens Civic Center, The Utah Congress of PTAs (member for 20 years and president from 1919 to 1922), Republican Women for the Payson Celebration (president for the occasion of Utah being granted statehood), the City Recreation Committee, the Health and Education Committee, the Child Welfare Committee of the City Council Defense Committee, Utah Pioneers Central Camp Vice President, and on a national level she was a member of the Herbert Hoover National Food Distribution Relief Committee. Her husband, Henry Smith Tanner was Salt Lake City, Utah's first state judge. She was remembered as an "ex-teacher, woman legislator" in her obituary.

International Women's Year Conference
The International Women's Year Conference (IWY) was held in the summer of 1977, every U.S. state held a conference to discuss Women's rights. Utah's conference was the the largest, with over 8,000 more women in attendance than the second biggest assembly in California. The conference was only expecting a couple thousand people to show up, but were inundated with 14,000 women. The equal rights amendment (ERA) was the main topic for the conferences across the nation. The ERA "proposed equality of rights under the law regardless of sex." It had been passed by Congress, and only needed three more states to be ratified into the United States Constitution. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints called for 10 women from every ward across the state to attend and vote against the amendment. The women, who were more than 90% Latter Day Saint, overwhelmingly voted against it. This event caused the failure of the ratification of the equal rights amendment.