How evil was the Santa Clara decision?

An excerpy from an essay on Corporate Personhood::

Before the Supreme Court determined that corporations were persons and hence had constitutional rights female citizens had decided that the Fourteenth Amendment should be interpreted to give them the right to vote. In Minor v. Happersett the Supreme Court ruled that "women" were not persons for the purposes of the Fourteenth Amendment.

Found the essay linked from ReclaimDemocracy.org, a site well worth perusing.