We get it that this is not Iceland. Iceland is No. 1 on the “World Economic Forum’s Global Gender Gap Index, which ranks 144 countries based on how close they are to achieving gender equality,” Melissa Jun Rowley writes in Forbes. The U.S. ranks 45th. “According to the Global Gender
Read MoreWhereas what? It’s Women’s Equality Day August 26, but are we equal yet?
Forty-five years ago this week on August 26, 1971, New York Democratic Representative Bella Abzug succeeded in formally having Women’s Equality Day put on the books. It was to commemorate the 19th Amendment signed 51 years earlier and signified a long battle for equal representation since the launch of the women’s civil rights movement in 1848.
Read MoreMy friend Carol Jenkins, a board member of the Equal Rights Amendment Coalition was updating me over lunch about the current attempt to get the ERA into the U.S. Constitution.
“This is where I came in,” I said.
Read MoreWe’re putting on our walking shoes and filling our water bottles.
On Women’s Equality Day (it’s Wednesday, August 26) Gloria Feldt, co-founder and president of Take the Lead and I, founder and editor in chief of Women’s eNews, will lead a very special women’s history walking tour in downtown Manhattan.
Read MoreIf you said “Women’s Equality Day,” you’d be right.
And if you said it’s the 95th anniversary of the date in 1920 when women’s right to vote officially entered the U.S. Constitution, you’d be spot on.
Read MoreI was savoring my grilled salmon salad recently when my lunch partner’s casual comment made me drop my fork and get serious.
“They’ve asked me to be board chair at the Brooklyn Museum, I’d be the first woman in their 100-year history. But I don’t know if I can do it,” Elizabeth Sackler said. “What do you think I should do?”
Read MoreDid you know that tomorrow is #WomensEqualityDay? Women’s Equality Day celebrates the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920, which gave women in the U.S. the right to vote. This is indeed cause for celebration. But in this quest for leadership parity (especially if we are to acco
Read MoreWe have “Battling” Bella Abzug to thank for Women’s Equality Day on August 26
Read MoreIt was all over the news for days. Every pundit, every political talk show, every newspaper running big retrospective spreads. Op eds galore, and reminiscences of what it was like to be marching together toward equality. Tomorrow, August 26 is Women’s Equality Day, the day that
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