Today is the day we commemorate the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution in 1920. This amendment prohibits the government from denying citizens of the United States the right to vote on the basis of their sex. Representative Bella Abzug introduced the bill designating August 26 Women’s Equality Day as a symbol of the fight for equal rights and authorizing the President to issue an annual proclamation commemorating women’s suffrage and the 1970 Strike for Equality.
It has now been 101 years since women earned the right to vote but sadly, we have still yet to be granted equal rights under the Constitution. Celebrate this day by telling your Representatives and Senators to remove the deadline they originally set for ratification of the ERA (H.J.RES> 17). Three-fourths of the states have ratified the ERA. It is time NOW! To make the ERA a part of our Constitution. It is unconscionable that women still do not have equal rights in the United States.