(Some references, and resources for the day, and every day to come!
Thanks and h/t to Women for Kansas -A)
August 26, otherwise known as Women’s Equality Day, marks the anniversary of the certification of the 19th Amendment, which granted some women the right to vote.
Yet today, women have fewer rights than they’d had in decades. To recognize this, we acknowledge Women’s Inequality Day.
Empowering Women Voters in 2024
Women still aren’t equal under the law.
Inequality impacts our health: although women pay $15 million more each year for health care than men, we spend more of our lives in poor health. Those who may experience pregnancy no longer have reproductive freedom; and when we do give birth, we (particularly women of color) face high rates of maternal mortality.
It impacts our work: we’re paid less than our male counterparts and are underrepresented in leadership roles. We also deal with workplace harassment, insufficient maternal leave, and disproportionate caretaking responsibilities that affect our ability to work.
It impacts our representation: women are severely underrepresented in politics, making up only 25% of the Senate, 29% of the House, and 31.9% of statewide elective executives.
How can we make policies that protect and serve women without more women in office? And in an age where our basic freedoms and bodily autonomy are under fire, how can we ensure our rights aren’t degraded further?
The 2024 federal election is a critical moment in the fight for our equality.
The people we elect in November will be in charge of our rights – including the right to reproductive freedom – for the next four years.
So when you cast your vote in 2024, will you vote for someone who defends those rights? Or someone who wants to take them away?
Our 2024 campaign centers around empowering women to make their voices heard at the ballot box by equipping them with essential voter information. We’re highlighting our free, bilingual one-stop-shop for nonpartisan election information, VOTE411.org.
This year’s Women’s Inequality “Day” campaign will take place from August 26-30, with unique calls to action engaging voters every day! Get involved by sharing content via our social toolkit.
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International Women’s Day 2024 campaign theme is ‘Inspire Inclusion’
The campaign theme for International Women’s Day 2024 was Inspire Inclusion.
When we inspire others to understand and value women’s inclusion, we forge a better world.
And when women themselves are inspired to be included, there’s a sense of belonging, relevance, and empowerment.
Collectively, let’s forge a more inclusive world for women.
Read more about a definition of what it means to inspire inclusion here.
https://www.internationalwomensday.com/Theme
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BAD ROMANCE: WOMEN’S SUFFRAGE
Soomo, youtube.com
“Bad Romance: Women’s Suffrage is a parody music video paying homage to Alice Paul and the generations of brave women who joined together in the fight to pass the 19th Amendment, giving women the right to vote in 1920.” Watch here.
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| WOMEN’S PROGRESS THROUGH THE YEARS… |
| Prior to 1918 Doctor’s weren’t allowed to advise married patients about birth control. Prior to 1920 Women couldn’t vote in all elections until 19th Amendment was ratified. Prior to WWII Female teachers couldn’t be married. During 1950’s Domestic abuse was not considered a crime but a’family matter’. Prior to 1963 Equitable wages for the same work, regardless of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex of the workers were not promised until passage of Equal Pay Act. Prior to 1964 Discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex was not prohibited until passage ofthe Civil Rights Act. Prior to 1965 State laws could prohibit the prescription or use of contraceptives by married couples. In some states, the woman needed her husband’s permission to purchase contraceptives. Prior to 1969 Yale and Princeton didn’t accept female students. Prior to 1969 Women couldn’t work at jobs that had been for men only. Prior to 1971 Women with a law degree could be denied the right to plead a client’s case in court. Prior to 1971 Private employers could refuse to hire women with pre-school children. Prior to 1972 The Boston Marathon was an all-male event. There was no Women’s Division. Prior to 1972 The right to privacy didn’t encompass an unmarried person’s right to use contraceptives. Prior to 1972 Title IX of the Education Amendment didn’t exist. Schools that received Federal support didn’t need to provide the same programs to women as they did men. | Prior to 1973 Abortions weren’t legal in the entire U.S. until Roe v. Wade decision by Supreme Court declared the U.S. Constitution protected a woman’s right to terminate an early pregnancy. Prior to 1974 Housing discrimination on the basis of sex and credit discrimination against women existed. Prior to 1974 It was legal to force pregnant women to take maternity leave on the assumption they were incapable of working in their physical condition. Prior to 1974 Single, widowed, or divorced women had to bring a man along to open a bank account or to cosign any credit application. Married women couldn’t open a bank account without their husband’s permission. Prior to 1975 Women were excluded from serving on juries. Prior to 1976 West Point Academy didn’t admit female students. Prior to 1977 Harvard didn’t admit female students. Prior to 1978 There was no ban on discrimination against women on the basis of pregnancy, childbirth, or related medical issues. Prior to 1984 Women were not allowed to join all-male organizations (Jaycees, Kiwanis, Rotary, Lions) Prior to 1994 There were no funded services for victims of rape or domestic violence. Prior to 2013 Women in the military were banned from combat positions. Prior to 2022 Since the 1973 Supreme Court decision (Roe v. Wade), a woman’s right to terminate a pregnancy was protected by the U.S. Constitution. This decision was reverse by the current U.S. Supreme Court in 2022. Information provided by Soroptimist site. Learn more about Soroptimist’s by visiting their site here. |
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE HISTORY OF WOMEN’S EQUALITY DAY
National Women’s History Alliance
Read more here.
Scottie's Playtime 
Hi. I love the lists of gains and progress made by women over time. I think the advancement of rights, the inclusion and equality of everyone should be the goal of every country. Especially a country that calls itself the land of the free. Yes we have a segment of society that wants to curtail those rights and set the clock / timetable back to when women were the play thing of a man and only cis straight white men had any authority / power. This minority uses the cloak of religion to give them cover for their bigotry, misogyny, and hatred. They are loud and threaten violence to get their way. We must not let them be the US Christian Taliban and force the US to be a theocracy, backing their church moral doctrines with gang thugs. Hugs. Scottie
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I read an article somewhere last night about the Taliban enacting some new statutes for women’s behavior in public in Afghanistan. They’re no longer allowed to use their literal voices in any way, for any reason, outside their homes. They have an actual moral police force, who are allowed to pick up women who violate moral codes. It’s all gone backwards quickly in Afghanistan, and that’s thanks to the Don cutting one of his famous great deals, especially the part about setting up withdrawal shortly into the following term of presidency. I wonder how it would look if the Don had actually won in 2020? Anyway, conveniently, we can simply blame it all on Pres. Biden even though he had to work with what he had at the time. Afghanistan in general is a tough nut to try to introduce to the rest of the tree, indeed. I don’t recall where I read it; I was on my way to bed, but it was pretty depressing. It mentioned another draconian rule for women, also, but it’s not coming to me right now. My recollection is that both rules are nigh impossible to obey during some situations, but there it is.
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Here’s the article: https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/article/2024/aug/26/taliban-bar-on-afghan-women-speaking-in-public-un-afghanistan .
Usually I read my Guardian newsletter much earlier in the day than 10PM!
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Hi Ali. This is the extreme of men blaming women for their own lack of control. It puts all responsibility on females leaving me to be as brutish and uncivilized as possible. I don’t understand the hate these men have for the women in the country. They basically are saying they don’t want them in public life and society just as the fundamentalist Christians and the republicans are say to LGBTQ+ people. Get out of society, stay hidden at home. The sad thing is this gives rise to much more domestic abuse of women and the use of children as sexual outlets. Female kids as they have no other worth than to be sold to a man, and boys as men can not get relief any other way.
On the Male Survivor site I am a member of, someone just posted a few videos of Dancing boys and the abuse they suffer. It is back and the boys are sexual currency. One 16 year old boy was murdered because he tried to get out of the life. But the men turn to boys because it is free for them to be with around boys and the more pretty the boy the more his status is which translate to is owner’s worth and his sale value. Something he has no control over, if the man who owns him and yes they use those terms, decides to sell him to someone he is forced to go with them. Until they are of age, then a lot of the boys said they wanted a stable of boys themselves. The culture is saturated with it, yet two adult males who get accused of having sex could be killed.
The part of women being totally submissive slaves is what the US Christian white fundamentalist males want and the Churches have already shown what happens to young boys when women are off limits. Thanks for the story, I am not sure how to help them. Hugs. Scottie
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I’m not, either. I guess we just are aware, know it’s wrong, and hope for the best. This is a little worse, I think, than it was before the US invaded, or else right back at that level; I remember reading similar stuff back when Jay Leno’s wife was working to get us to approve invading. But my recollection is that it’s not a situation for which US invasion is appropriate. Not that that stopped us then, but I hope we’ve learned. It’ll take a world effort, it seems to me. But I don’t know which agency.
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Hi Ali. but I hope we’ve learned … , Ali I hope you are correct. I know the people have. But my worry is that the politicians receiving lobbies money may not have. They see morality different than we the people do. They see it in terms of profit and power. Hugs. Scottie
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Wow. So you think the US would invade again, simply to help the women? That wasn’t even the reason (an oil pipeline) or even the purported reason (OBL, etc.) Some pro-war people just used the women to get US women to be more supportive of the war.
Sigh.
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Hi Ali. I spent my morning making notes on the Sunday news shows to make videos. Lindsey Graham went on and on about attacking Iran and letting Israel do anything they wanted to wipe out Hamas, and he kept saying even though corrected many times by the host, that Harris stopped shipments of weapons to Israel keeping them from getting the hostages back. He and Tom Cotton wouldn’t accept any blame on Israel for not having a cease fire nor the return of the hostages, framing it all as Hamas blocking it and changing conditions. These people no longer feel the need to tell the truth, but they believe a lie told bold and often becomes the truth. I don’t know about Cotton but Graham is backed mostly by the defense industry big money and he has never seen a war he did not love. He hated the idea of getting out of Afghanistan and wants the US to go back in and keep troops there. Not for the sake of woman, but to have a reason to boost the defense budget. Hugs. Scottie
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Cotton is a faithful RWNJ Republican.
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Hi Ali. To your question how would tRump handle it, he admitted if he won he planned to break the deal. Typical tRump. He set it up for Biden to fail if he won and tRump planned to screw those he made a deal with if he won. But again what I failed to mention in my video is he lied about everything involved. He claims 87 million in stuff was left over there, but the true figure is around 7 million. But tRump like some men has trouble with size. 😝🙄😁
I do feel really bad for the women and the minorities such as the LGBTQ+ in Afghanistan, but we had 20 years to change their minds and we couldn’t. Not that the majority of women and minorities did not support the US, they did. But like in the US older males and the religious establishment did not, they wanted their power and rule back. That is the same thing happening in the US now. It is scary because if tRump and his crowd win it will be just like Afghanistan, just a Christian version. That is the goal of project 2024. I just think that most people don’t understand that. Thank you for a new idea for a video. Hugs. Scottie
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