Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
“You cannot be neutral. You must either join with us who believe in the bright future or be destroyed by those who would return us to the dark past.” Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
There must always be a remedy for wrong and injustice if we only know how to find it.” Ida B. Wells
We have made a way when there was no way.” Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
I appeal on behalf of four millions of men, women, and children who are chattels in the Southern States of America, Not because they are identical with my race and color, though I am proud of that identity, but because they are men and women. Sarah Parker Redmond
Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.” Mary Church Terrell
The crowning glory of American citizenship is that it may be shared equally by people of every nationality, complexion, and sex. Mary-Ann Shadd Cary
Now is the time for our women to begin to try to lift up their heads and plant the roots of progress under the hearthstone. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Marian Wright Edelman
There is a great stir about colored men getting their rights, but not a word about the colored women; and if colored men get their rights, and not colored women theirs, you see the colored men will be masters over the women, and it will be just as bad as it was before. So I am for keeping the thing going while things are stirring; because if we wait till it is still, it will take a great while to get it going again. (Equal Rights Convention, New York, 1867) Sojourner Truth
Are You Familiar with Women’s Equality Day? Women’s Equality Day is on August 26, and it is the centennial celebration of the 19th Amendment that gave women the right to vote in the USA. It commemorates the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. While many black women participated in the movement, they were excluded from the historical records celebrating this achievement. According to the book, African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 (1998) by Rosalyn Terborg-Penn, which some saw as a response to the “History of Women’s Suffrage,” a six-volume work, begun in 1881 and edited by Anthony, Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage, the American suffrage movement erased from historical records, the many black women who attended suffrage meetings, organized suffrage clubs, and promoted the cause to grant women the freedom to vote.
Rosalyn Terborg-Penn‘s book identified more than 120 black women, including Sojourner Truth, Mary-Ann Shadd Cary, Ida B. Wells, Mary Church Terrell, Sarah Parker Remond, and many other black women who were described as “hundreds of nameless black women.” These notable women and others had participated tirelessly in the suffrage fight. The black suffragettes continued their efforts because they knew the goal was bigger than them and to give up would be dangerous for the plight of black people. The racial divide grew and became glaringly obvious in 1913 when the white organizers of a major suffragist parade in Washington ordered black participants to march in the rear. So, even though the 19th Amendment, ratified in 1920, said that the right to vote could not be denied on the basis of sex, Blacks of both sexes, especially in the South, were effectively barred from voting by poll taxes, literacy tests, and many other forms of intimidation that included lynchings. It was not until the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that black people found their footing in the polls. Many of the photos, in the collages in this post, are of African American Women in the Suffrage Movement and a few notables from a long list. Do you recognize any of the women featured in the photos? I have also included at least one quote from the many women featured here. Please share in the comments
African American Women in the Struggle for the Vote, 1850-1920 (1998)Rosalyn Terborg-Penn
National Women’s History Alliance: Returning the Suffrage Heroes to the Pages of History
Motivation Mondays: International Women’s Day #GenerationEquality #EachforEqual
Voting Rights for All After the 19th Amendment
The 19th Amendment did not guarantee that all women and men in the United States could vote. Securing this essential right has been a long struggle that for some, continues on to this day.
• 1924 Indian Citizenship Act – Native Americans deemed US citizens, but states continue to decide who votes. Many continue to disenfranchise Native Americans.
• 1943 Magnuson Act – Chinese in America granted the right to become citizens, and therefore to vote (the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 previously prevented this).
• 1962 New Mexico is the last state to enfranchise Native Americans.
• 1965 Voting Rights Act – African Americans and Native Americans continued to face exclusion from voting through mechanisms like poll taxes, literacy tests, and intimidation. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 eliminated many of these. From “The 19th Amendment: A Crash Course,” National Park Service, nps.gov
“The way to right wrongs is to turn the light of truth upon them.” Ida B. Wells
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
“Lifting as we climb … we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.” Mary Church Terrell
“The true aim of female education should be, not a development of one or two, but all the faculties of the human soul, because no perfect womanhood is developed by imperfect culture.” Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
I do not think the mere extension of the ballot a panacea for all the ills of our national life. What we need to-day is not simply more voters, but better voters. Frances Ellen Watkins Harper
“Countermovements among racists and sexists and Nazifiers are just as relentless as dirt on a coffee table…Every housewife knows that if you don’t sooner or later dust…the whole place will be dirty again.”Florynce Kennedy
When the ballot is put into the hands of the American woman the world is going to get a correct estimate of the Negro woman. It will find her a tower of strength of which poets have never sung, orators have never spoken, and scholars have never written. Nannie Helen Burroughs
“I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other; for no man should take me alive.” Harriet Tubman
“Whatever glory belongs to the race for a development unprecedented in history for the given length of time, a full share belongs to the womanhood of the race.”Mary Mcleod Bethune
Think like a queen. A queen is not afraid to fail. Failure is another steppingstone to greatness. Oprah Winfrey
If any of us hopes to survive, s/he must meet the extremity of the American female condition with an immediate and political response. The thoroughly destructive and indefensible subjugation of the majority of Americans cannot continue except at the peril of the entire body politic. June Jordan
Let’s celebrate Women’s Equality Day because, as I pointed out above, today, August 26, 2020, is Women’s Suffrage Centennial Day – the 100th anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex. Even though so many women here and around the world continue to suffer from discriminatory practices and all forms of gender inequities, we must never give up. As Eleanor Roosevelt said, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.” The road to equality has been a tough and hard-won battle, and it took the collective effort of so many women from all walks of life to achieve it. Did you know that in 1944, skilled female workers earned an average weekly wage of $31.21? Despite federal regulations requiring equitable pay for similar work, their male counterparts in similar positions earned $54.65 weekly. When the war ended, some women were ready to return to their pre-war domestic lives. However, others who wanted or needed to continue working, found their opportunities were limited as men returned home and the demand for war materials decreased. Today, women earn between 83-98 cents on the dollar for the same jobs that men do for more money. Minority women earn less than white women and the efforts to extend equity to all women remain a bone of contention in Congress. As we gather to celebrate 100 years of having the vote, we must not forget our sisters who are voiceless, stuck in minimum wage jobs with no healthcare, or with limited resources and education. The gender pay gap is real and remains a challenge here and elsewhere. Come back for more on the history of this Important Event.
Smithsonian: Five You Should Know: African American Suffragists
Motivation Mondays: Women’s Equality Day #Quotes
Thoughtco: Important Black Women in American History
Sojourner Truth (1797-1883): Ain’t I A Woman?
Delivered 1851 Women’s Rights Convention, Old Stone Church (since demolished), Akron, Ohio via nps.govWell, children, where there is so much racket there must be something out of kilter. I think that ‘twixt the negroes of the South and the women at the North, all talking about rights, the white men will be in a fix pretty soon. But what’s all this here talking about?
That man over there says that women need to be helped into carriages, and lifted over ditches, and to have the best place everywhere. Nobody ever helps me into carriages, or over mud-puddles, or gives me any best place! And ain’t I a woman? Look at me! Look at my arm! I have ploughed and planted and gathered into barns, and no man could head me! And ain’t I a woman? I could work as much and eat as much as a man – when I could get it – and bear the lash as well! And ain’t I a woman? I have borne thirteen children and seen most all sold off to slavery, and when I cried out with my mother’s grief, none but Jesus heard me! And ain’t I a woman?
Then they talk about this thing in the head; what’s this they call it? [member of audience whispers, “intellect”] That’s it, honey. What’s that got to do with women’s rights or negroes’ rights? If my cup won’t hold but a pint and yours holds a quart, wouldn’t you be mean not to let me have my little half measure full?
Then that little man in black there, he says women can’t have as much rights as men, ’cause Christ wasn’t a woman! Where did your Christ come from? Where did your Christ come from? From God and a woman! Man had nothing to do with Him.
If the first woman God ever made was strong enough to turn the world upside down all alone, these women together ought to be able to turn it back, and get it right side up again! And now they is asking to do it, the men better let them.
Obliged to you for hearing me, and now old Sojourner ain’t got nothing more to say. [1]
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“If American women would increase their voting turnout by ten percent, I think we would see an end to all of the budget cuts in programs benefiting women and children.” Coretta Scott King
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
Motivation 2020: Women’s Equality Day #womensvote100 #equalitycantwait
To support whatever is right, and to bring justice where we’ve had so much injustice. Fannie Lou Hamer
“I didn’t want to pay my fare and then go around the back door, because many times, even if you did that, you might not get on the bus at all. They’d probably shut the door, drive off, and leave you standing there.” Rosa Parks
“I am a Black Feminist. I mean I recognize that my power, as well as my primary oppressions, come as a result of my blackness as well as my womanness, and therefore my struggles on both of these fronts are inseparable.” Audre Lorde
What becomes a crime deserving capital punishment when the tables are turned is a matter of small moment when the negro woman is the accusing party. Ida B. Wells
“Seeing their children touched and seared and wounded by race prejudice is one of the heaviest crosses which colored women have to bear.” Mary Church Terrell
“When Ernestine Rose, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucy Stone, and Susan B. Anthony began that agitation by which colleges were opened to women and the numerous reforms inaugurated for the amelioration of their condition along all lines, their sisters who groaned in bondage had little reason to hope that these blessings would ever brighten their crushed and blighted lives, for, during those days of oppression and despair, colored women were not only refused admittance to institutions of learning, but the law of the States in which the majority lived made it a crime to teach them to read.” Mary Church Terrell
As a mother of two young adults, I know that having the right to vote was and still is a critical step that helped define women’s participation in the political process, and it continues to impact the lives of women of all generations; mine, millennials, and beyond. When some folks read about women’s equality and dismiss it, they do so because they have either no knowledge of the journey and achievements we have made to crack that glass ceiling or because, as beneficiaries of the struggle to empower women, they have not stopped to consider how we got from there to here. Without the groundwork laid by the suffragettes and other bold women around the globe, many of us would still be considered chattel or property owned by our fathers and husbands. Back then, women had no say and no property rights either. How far have we really come? Sadly, not far enough. There are parts of our world where women still do not exercise full rights of citizenship and that is why we must continue to champion gender parity for all. Above and below, I’ve added quotes and/or poems from women about our lives, goals, and expectations. Enjoy and share a quote of your own in the comments.
Wikipedia: African-American women’s suffrage movement
Wikipedia: Timeline of women’s suffrage in the United States
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I sit and sew—a useless task it seems,
My hands grown tired, my head weighed down with dreams—
The panoply of war, the martial tred of men,
Grim-faced, stern-eyed, gazing beyond the ken
Of lesser souls, whose eyes have not seen Death,
Nor learned to hold their lives but as a breath—
But—I must sit and sew. Alice Dunbar Nelson
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So many women fought so hard for all the freedoms we have today. I feel like as women, it’s our duty to exercise those rights to make what they fought for mean something.
wow. what a fascinating quote by Rosa Parks. I had no idea that black people would pay their fees and then not even get on the bus. :O that’s horrible.
Yes quite awful and nothing good about those “good ole days”
I can’t believe I didn’t know what today was until this morning! Such an important day in our hisyory
It can be easy to forget what women went through to earn their equality. But, it’s also important to be reminded of it and where we have come from.
Indeed. we have come a long way with more miles to cover.
Happy Women’s Equity Day! I did not know this. I love the history behind this and definitely needed a reminder about how important this is. I hope ALL women get out to vote in the 2020 election.
These are all awesome and so inspirational.
To me, it’s challenging at times to request for equality treatment to me as a female, however personally I always will still try my very best to ensure I can receive the respect and equality
I am truly grateful for such a day because we wound not have the right to vote and much more! June Jordan’s words speak very close to me!
I’m not familiar with Women’s Equality Day until I bump here onto your site. Glad to know about this though I’m not familiar either with the women in the photos , now I’m aware of them. I can say that atleast from where I am now , I can say that equality is impose. Women’s power , knowledge and skills are highly appreciated.
I have never heard of Women’s Equality Day! :O How could I have missed such an important day!?
Very powerful. Some truly inspiring women there. What a list!
I didn’t even know it was Women’s Equality Day! Thank you for sharing this, it’s much appreciated!
Thank you so much for this history and motivation. I’m a working mom so take this so seriously
I didn’t know that women’s equality day was Aug 26th. As far as I’m concerned, it should be everyday!
Hard to imagine just how long it took for women to have a right to vote! We’ve come a long way, but we SURE aint there yet until equality world-wide. That’s why I love Mary Church Rerrell’s quote ” Seeking no favors because of our color, nor patronage because of our needs, we knock at the bar of justice, asking an equal chance.”
I just heard the story of how Susan B. Anthony was punished for daring to vote before the 19th Amendment and women being allowed to vote. This is all fascinating stuff.
It is sad that there are still some places where women are still considered as inferiors to men. There are many women in history who fought for equality and I have thankful they did. I can consider myself fortunate that I can enjoy some privileges that were denied to women in early times.
Thank you for putting together such a comprehensive history of the women’s equality movement. We’ve definitely made strides but still have a long way to go…
Thanks for this! Really glad that women get to vote and have their say in social matters. I hope we all put it to good use!
Kudos to all these women that made it possible for us today!!! I am in awe to this achievement…The struggle is not over and we will continue to fight the fight.
What a beautiful tribute. We must remember all these brave woman that came before us and fought for us. That poem by Alice Dunbar Nelson gave me goosebumps. I love it how your posts are always a wealth of information.
Such an inspiring post! You have clearly done your research and there are so many reasons to be proud to be a woman! 💚
Motivation is required by all of us at sometime or the other, and these are some uplifting motivation quote
I love that there were women brave enough to chip away at things. They make things possible for us now.
What an awesome and uplifting post! I had no idea yesterday was Women’s day and I missed it! Oh well, me and the Hubby will celebrate today. Thanks for sharing this!
Kileen
Its a great and inspiring read, learnt so much.
What a great day! I think fight for equality is not over and we still have a way to go. we should look up to those wonderful ladies
I certainly believe in equality for women! I love this, lifting as we climb! So simple yet so powerful.
This is such a great piece. It has always sadden me that when the suffrage movement was happening in 1913 it was to be segregated. I am glad Ida B. Wells did not listen.
This is such an important day in history. Too bad it had to take so long for it to happen. The right to vote is one of the most important rights we have.
I love seeing the faces of women who worked so hard to make this change! Thank you for creating this collection.
I love everything about this! I appreciate the sacrifices our ancestors made so that we could be afforded the same opportunities as our male counterparts. Though we have made some progress, there is def still work to be done, which is why I decided to study public health to ensure that marginalized communities have access to community resources, healthcare, etc.
I had no idea there was a women equality day. Very interesting information.
Women’s Equality Day is certainly a day that we want to celebrate. I remember Billie Jean King who constantly fought for equal prize money in tennis. I really admire her.
This is such a powerful piece! It’s important that we ensure the future generations have a good understanding of Women’s Equality Day.
This is amazing! Really motivating for women! Thank you!
So many women battled so hard to ensure that women today have all the same rights and priviledges as men. It’s important that we remember them.
I love this post so much! As a white male, I understand how lucky I am to have been born into the two most represented parts of Amercian society. Women are one of the groups who have had to fight so hard to get their rights, and I think it’s importan that we remember that. THis history isn’t taught nearly enough in schools.
It is unbelievable that 100 years ago that women are not allowed to vote. So glad that women can now vote
I love that Women’s Equality Day falls on my birthday! Although, in my opinion, I think every day should be Women’s Equality Day. 😉
I have heard about that day – it is actually hard to believe that only the men got to vote in the first place 🙂
I really like your Roosevelt quote! We have autonomy and we can forget that at times
I am all about women’s equalilty more now than ever with the current state of political turmoil we are in. Thank you for always sharing positive and encouraging message in an effort to educate and uplift others.
What an important cause to write about. Thanks for sharing all the links and the twitter hashtag, that’s really helpful.
I think it’s so important to celebrate, support, and lift up women. I look forward to the day when we willl (finally!) be treated with equality.
History is very powerful, these were the named and nameless heroines who paved the way for so many things women, especially black women are enjoying today. They ran a good race and fought a good fight for us all. Happy women’s equality day.
“You cannot be neutral. You must either join with us who believe in the bright future or be destroyed by those who would return us to the dark past.” Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin
This quotation moved me. There must be no compromise. In everything you do, you must be 100% dedicated or no dedication at all.
These quotes are so special — I loved the graphics and the way you tied in history.
Women’s equality day! a day that everyone should celebrate, I say we celebrate it everyday if we can! Thank ypu for spreading awarenes about this❤
This is very inspirational and motivating especially to women who are always considered as the underdogs. I believe in this movement! There should be gender equality!
Glad you shared an amazing and lovely blog post with us..found it very motivating and nice one though…
Such powerful words, as a society we should always strive for more equality in our great nation!
So important to remember that we have the rights we do because of these amazing women who fought for them! Progress takes time but look how far we’ve come!
Great info about the Woman’s Suffrage movement. Sadly, I know her name, but know nothing about Sojourner Truth so thank you for sharing an excerpt from her speech. I really need to know more about her and the other women who fought for equality.
This is such an inspiring blog post. Super grateful that I live in a year where as a female I have rights. All these woman are heroes!
This is such an important. I love that my daughters write this on our family calendar.
I’m glad equality is being celebrated.
I did not know that a day like this exists. Good to know.
It’s nice to see all these women who have fought for equality. If not for their courage and their voice, I don’t know what kind of world we would be living now.
My heart reading the quote from Rosa Parks saying she didn’t want to pay her fare and walk around to the back of the bus in fear that they would leave her. I could only imagine how that must have felt. It speaks volumes to hear that.
I do hope that soon the day will come when there is no need to fight for equality because of basic reason: gender, race, work. I do hope soon we are only seen for what we really are
Your post is truly awe-inspiring! I love the way you have taken the pains to put all women who have fought for Women equality rights on the same platform! India has been one country that idolises women but i’m yet to see such awareness generating blog posts!
Equality of Women should be celebrated every day but I am glad there is an officially recognized day on the 26th of August. I couldn’t agree more with Daisy Elizabeth Adams Lampkin that you cannot be neutral and must join with those who believe in a bright future!
What a powerful post. Its beautiful we have so many ways to celebrate women when we have been muted for so long.
What a great cause to support, we should all do much more about equality and fair treatments of everyone. Thanks for all these great resources.
Hope you explore them. 🙂
I wasn’t aware of Women’s Equality day. Thanks to your blogs. It adds to my knowledge.
Thank you dear Rose
It’s unbelievable to me that we’re still fighting for equal rights after all these years right? But we must not get tired and press on.
Upwards and onwards!
Amazing article! Women’s rights and equality are very important.
Yes, very important
I love the motivational and inspirational way you curate this.
TY!
I never heard of Women’s Equality Day. Even it’s not written in the Constitution, women must be treated equally the same.
Glad you now know…
We do believe in equality of rights…my wife and daughter fights for women all the time and you all deserve it!
Thank you, Kenneth. Appreciated.
As a woman I really appreciate this article. It’s so true that you have to actively be with that cause.
Yes, we must all do our part.
We should definitely celebrate this because as a woman, we have encountered a lot of challenges when it comes to getting what we truly deserve.
Yes, it is an important feat that should make us all proud.
I always love your collections, so motivating and inspiring to scroll through! <3 Happy International Women's Day 2020!!
Thank you. Happy Women’s Equality Day! International Women’s Day was on March 8th. 🙂
I was not aware that there is a day for women’s equality, though it is very important. However, I liked the background and a the quotes.
I’m glad you found it helpful.
Thank you for spreading awareness about one of the most important issues in society. Truly appreciated reading this article.
I’m grateful for your feedback.
Supercool thoughts. Thank you for sharing
What does this mean? 🙁
Seriously, the gender pay gap is real 😒I didn’t know about the importance of this day, so thank you for writing this article and sharing with us 😊
Yes, the gender pay gap is real
It is so good that such day exists. I had no idea about it.
Now you know. 🙂
I love your motivation Monday post and I have shared them as inspiration Monday at work.
You are so kind… Thank you! 🙂
I feel kind of embarrassed. I consider myself pretty up to date on American history but I definitely fail when it comes to the Woman’s Suffrage Movement. Of all the women listed in Rosalyn Terborg-Penn‘s book, I think I only know Sojourner Truth. And to be fair, I really only know her by name. So I am very glad that you are sharing these strong women so that people like me can learn more about our past and hopefully make a better future.
Thank you. No need for embarrassment, Black history wasn’t part of the curriculum for many decades. Everyone is catching up.
This is such an inspiring post for women around the world.
Indeed. TY!
Womans equality has been a very sensitive topic ,hope someday we will live in a equal world
It is my wish too… Equality for all
It was a long battle to fight for human rights and equality, thanks for the assertation and motivation – reminding us that the fight is not over.
Thank you! We are on our way!
I didn’t realize that this year was the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote. That is such a cool thing and it was great to read more of the details behind the movement. One thing that stuck out for me in particular was the Eleanor Roosevelt quote, “No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.”
Yes, it’s an important reminder
This is such a beautiful post. We all should stand together for Women’s right and equality. It is a shame that still we need to fight for equality but we shouldn’t stop till we get it!
Beautifully written. Love how you celebrate and make people aware of Women’s Equality!
I’m glad you approve
Such a fab post and very inspiring. anything that helps to promote women’s equality has a big thumbs up from me x
Wow, there is so much that isn’t taught in school. You learn one thing about Rosa Parks fr instance. Nothing about how hard she actually had it. How you hear about slavery back then but never that their babies are just taken and sold. So many blind folds in life.
I’m so thankful that we’ve grown to a more equal world for women’s rights. We have more ways to improve, but I’m very hopeful. Thanks for sharing!
This post could not have come at a better time. With everything going on, we all could use a little inspiration and motivation. Still I Rise and Dreams will always be my faves, and I can’t forget about Phenomenal Woman.
Its hard to believe its the 100th anniversary of women getting the right to vote. It seems so long ago, yet not.
Such great inspiration through this post. I can’t believe it’s the 100th anniversary!
Equality for everyone, including women, is so important. It saddens me that by 2020 we still have inequality in the World. Humanity is better than this!
I think more people need to hear about this. We all know that women didn’t have the right to vote for a while, but for a lot of us, that’s where it ends.
You can’t be neutral is one of my favorite line from this whole read..love this one
I love learning more about history so this was a great read for me!
So grateful I wasn’t born into an age where women cannot vote. Love the historical context you bring to Women’s Equality Day.
Lovely Motivating post! Feminism isn’t not about making women stronger. Women are already strong It’s about changing the way the world perceives that strength Happy Women equality day!
The quote by Rosa Perks is sucha delight to read and what an amazing connect.
These are written so amazingly..indeed glad you shared these with us..found them quite motivational and meaningful…
Women are such powerful beings. Thank you for writing a post that empowers and celebrates everything that we accomplish and do!
Waooo we always take things for granted .. thanks to our previous generations we are now able to live with rights that they never had.
Thanks for writing this article and making people more aware of the current situation!
Incredible post!!!!! I love Ida B Wells front and center in the graphic. She’s one of my favorite historical figures and a shining example of good journalism. Thanks for sharing 🙂
It’s a great article about Women’s Equality day. thanks to all. And celebrate and make people aware of this Woman’s Equality day. Thanks for sharing the importants about it.
I didn’t know about the Women’s Equality day. Your post is so motivational and inspiring that I love to read it. Thanks for your post and your words. – Amalia
The status of women has changed a lot over the years, but in some cultures there is still a lot more work to do on this 🙂
I would be honest, I wasnt aware of so many details.
Even it’s not written in the Constitution, women must be treated equally the same.
If you as parents cut corners, your children will too. If you lie, they will too. If you spend all your money on yourselves and tithe no portion of it for charities, colleges, churches, synagogues, and civic causes, your children won’t either. And if parents snicker at racial and gender jokes, another generation will pass on the poison adults still have not had the courage to snuff out. Marian Wright Edelman
While the above may be true for some people I know a lot of people who have stepped away from how they were raised to become good, decent, non judgemental people.
Wonderful post and we must always remember the effort and handwork the women back then did for us.
I love the graphics you created! We should all (including men) celebrate Women’s Equality.
womens equality in all nation should be respected…very informative article
We have to strive for women equality. I know we are celebrating it but I think we are so far from getting it right.
I agree with you! But we should not lose hope that one day, women equality will be achieve. Let’s not stop fighting for it.
women have done so much for us. what a great poem
I’ve obviously heard of the women’s suffrage but I honestly have never heard of equality day. So thank you for sharing it with me. I’ve actually been talking to my kids (we homeschool) about voting rights and the suffrage movement and why it’s so important so next year I’m going to have to remember this.
What a fascinating quote by Rosa Parks. I never knew of this. Thank you!
This is really inspiring post for women.We do believe in equality of rights. thanks for sharing.
Fantastic article, this is such an important topic that should be talked about. I enjoyed all of the quotes you included from many amazing women.
This is such a great and important post. I love all of the quotes, beautiful photos and history you took the time to provide about women’s equality. A subject that we all need to learn more about and appreciate. Great post! Thank you.
I haven’t heard of Women’s Equality day. Quite an informative post. Appreciate it. More power to all the women in the world. 👍🏻
your posts are inspiring! thank you for that!
Wow!! I agree with all of those quotes and can I say how powerful they are? We should move forward from the past and continue to evolve as human who are more accepting and treat each other are equals!!
It’s really a beautiful & motivational post on women’s equality. What I think is equal opportunities should be given to every gender in every aspect, weather it is political, economic, health or education.
Women equality is yet to fully achieved but we girls are not stopping! I love the focus here and I truly believe you are a great women to deliver that message
You leave so many great points about how interactional the struggles of women are, we are equal and should be treated so
There is still a big difference in several countries across the world – we can only hope that things will improve there also 🙂
This is awesome. Women equality should not be celebrated annually, but daily! Thank you!
I wasn’t aware of this day but I agree. It’s important high light women’s achievement and make them equal. Thank you for highlighting this for us.
Equality for women is very important. And this starts inside our home, so that everyone knows the importance of it.
I am grateful to be born in a world that accepts women. Of course there’s still much of work to be done, but I am grateful for those who have fought hard for this.
This is a great, in depth post. I can’t imagine what it was like being a woman back then. I am grateful for the rights they fought for!
Great read – albeit, not exactly hilarious…. It’s actually quite sad how far we still are from equality in so many fields…in the 21th century.
I love these poems. We can honor these women by standing up for each other instead of against each other,help build each other instead of pulling each other down.
it’s been a long road fighting for equality and thanks for sharing their inspiration there. – Knycx Journeying
We’ve seen many developments and changes on women’s equality, and we should not stop, but aim for more changes, until we reach that day that we are all equally respected.
We should give empathy for those people who experienced hardships.
Women are more than equal hence it is sad that one has to celebrate Women’s Equality Day.Women power runs the world.
Women are so powerful! I found out a couple of years ago that my mother and her sister participated in the Civil RIghts marches in Birmingham. I was very proud!
Woman are so powerful! I love how this highlights how far wre have come but also shows we have a ways to go!
I have immense respect for all the powerful women who have paved the way for me. I am forever thankful and know that we still have a long road ahead to conquer.
all men are created equal regardless of its gender…..and this should followed by all countries in the world…if its the world would be a greater place to live