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Go Topless Day, an annual event started in 2007, [8] [9] [10] is scheduled for the Sunday nearest Women's Equality Day, because of "Sylvie Chabot's remark that August 26 is Women's Equality Day in the US because it is on August 26, 1920 that women won their constitutional right to vote."
Fifty-one years later in 1971, August 26 was first recognized as National Women's Equality Day. On Wednesday, we look back on all that women have gone through to make today possible and thank them.
Women's Equality Day is celebrated every August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote.
Abzug founded and ran several women's advocacy organizations. She founded a grassroots organization called Women USA, [15] and continued to lead feminist advocacy events, for example serving as grand marshal of the Women's Equality Day New York March on August 26, 1980. [37]
On Women’s Equality Day (8/26), we commemorate the ratification in 1920 of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution granting women the right to vote, and we acknowledge the efforts of the ...
International Women's Day (IWD) is a holiday celebrated annually on March 8 as a focal point in the women's rights movement. IWD gives focus to issues such as gender equality, reproductive rights, and violence and abuse against women.
Story at a glance Today is the 102nd anniversary of women’s suffrage in the United States. In the century since ratification of the 19th amendment, significant gains have been made with regard ...
Equality for women has been an ongoing battle since the original women's rights conference in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. So, in honor of Women's Equality Day, we're taking a look at some of ...