The Wonder Woman movie had the most successful debut of a D.C. Comics film in years. The women's march the day after President Trump's inauguration gathered hundreds of thousands of women in Washington D.C. and more around the world. Is there a connection? Will this Crisis result in large changes in how women are involved in politics? Have Hero generations encouraged such shifts in the past? 

 

Somehow I missed that Wonder Woman was originally created during the last Fourth Turning, in 1941, first published just before the Pearl Harbor attack. An example of an openness to changing perceptions of women although Marston (b. 1893) is Lost generation rather than G.I.

 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wonder_Woman

Some estimates on crowd sizes for the Women's March. Newspaper accounts I read appeared to interview a Millennial, GenXee, and Boomer suggesting what could be  an equivalent number of each, or a desire to report on all of them equally. 

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1xa0iLqYKz8x9Yc_rfhtmSOJQ2EGgeUVjvV4A8LsIaxY/htmlview?sle=true#

http://www.latimes.com/local/california/la-me-la-ln-womens-march-20170121-story.html

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2017_Women%27s_March

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/hundreds-voted-stickers-left-susan-b-anthonys-grave/

Gene Roddenberry created a couple of related television pilots in the 1970s that depicted women in positions of power, although as villains. 

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genesis_II_(film)

Margaret Sanger's paper on war and population

https://www.nyu.edu/projects/sanger/webedition/app/documents/show.php?sangerDoc=236531.xml

Heinlein having a view of women as superior to men has, often attributed to the influence - or existence- of his wife Virginia

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Heinlein