Quick Post: Remembering Sexism in High School History Book

This has been bugging me for years, but I didn’t have the forethought at the time to make any notes on it.

In my (junior year, I believe) American History class, I remember the history text we used gave the information about the women’s sufferage movement, the 19th Amendment of 1920, and the election of 1920 as the first year women got to vote for president.

It is my memory that the text couldn’t help but say something about the result of the election and how Warren G. Harding was often considered the more handsome of the two candidates running.  It left the part about women mistaking a presidential election for a male beauty pagent unsaid.  I just double-checked Wikipedia and it did mention that while Harding photographed well, he also had supported the 19th Amendment. (I’m positive that this was brought up in my high school text because I haven’t had a history text since high school and I haven’t been interested in Harding enough to look him up EVER, so I’m not remembering falsely or using a more recent memory as something that I learned in high school.)

Does anyone remember/have a citation for this text?  Was my school the only one who used it?

Does anyone else have stories of sexism actually taught as part of the text in your school experiences?