How Fed-Up Women Are Changing American Politics

Amber Spradlin tolerated the indignities of public-school teaching for 13 years, but now she has had enough. "We have tried so many different things, so many different avenues, to advocate for our students," she says. "Finally, we were saying, 'We're not going to take this anymore.'"

Spradlin, a sixth-grade English teacher in Choctaw, Okla., was at the state capitol in Oklahoma City on April 9, missing her sixth day of work in order to demand more school funding.