In 1971, Representative Bella Abzug championed a bill in the U.S. Congress to designate August 26 as “Women's Equality Day.” The bill says that “the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation annually in
As the first female chief justice of Indiana's Supreme Court, Loretta Rush is a woman of accomplishment. But the accomplishment is not hers alone, Rush told several hundred people at Evansville's Women's Equality Day celebration Wednesday. “It took a
As a voice in the state senate for women's full participation in the economy, democracy, and their own reproductive decisions, I was disappointed last year to watch a slate of bills that would have helped women achieve full equality fail because some
WOMEN'S EQUALITY DAY is a day proclaimed annually by the President of the United States to commemorated the granting of the vote to women throughout the country on an equal basis with men. Since 1971, when
If you've been on Facebook today you've probably noticed the graphic promoting "Women's Equality Day" which claims "On Aug 26, 1920, women achieved the rig.