Rep. Cuellar marks Women’s Equality Day

Gov. Andrew Cuomo also joined the call for action in honor of Women’s Equality Day, saying in a statement that “New York is proud to be a leader in the fight for equal rights”.

Women should not have to worry how many miles they will need to travel to receive basic health care, plain and simple. With famous stars like Taylor Swift, Beyoncé, Mindy Kaling, and Lena Dunham encouraging young women and men alike to support gender equality, the movement has gained traction once again.

As the Defense Department primes to announce its Women in Service Review final integration decisions for remaining closed positions and any potentially approved exceptions to policy in January 2016, once-prohibited occupations in armor, artillery, infantry and special operations can emerge as unprecedented career options for women, who comprise at least 14 percent of the military, she said. Senator Dianne Feinstein and Representative Nancy Pelosi represent the Bay Area in Washington, yet in fact, women make up just 20% of the Senate and 19% of Congress. Finally on August. 26, 1920, women were granted the right to vote and to hold elective office.

The Lubbock and Texas chapters of the American Association of University Women will have a table inside the Student Union Building at 1:30 p.m.

Utah was far ahead of this curve, granting women suffrage half a century earlier than the nation and second only to Wyoming. They knew that they were destined to remind Americans of our constitutional tenant-that all people, of all sexes, are created equally. Women in Sweden and Scotland won some local voting rights, and Great Britain opened local elections-but only to unmarried women who also owned property. Suffragettes subsequently made arguments in favor of granting rights to white women based on their racial alliance with white men and their common belief of superiority over black people.

So on this Women’s Equality Day, think about how you can affect change in our country. That women still take on a disproportionate amount of labor that is completely uncompensated. Workplace gender discrimination has been illegal for decades now, but the problem persists. Unfortunately, 95 years has not been enough time to completely eradicate the institutional sexism that shames America’s past.

Ultimately, fulfilling the promise of the 19th Amendment will take more voices and votes from women and men, asking each elected official to stop focusing on wedge issues that divide us.

As men, we need to focus on how to become better allies.

We need to invest resources and reduce the cost of quality child care for working families; child care has become so expensive that many low-income women who would like to work are being denied the opportunity to enter the workforce because they can’t afford it.

New Hampshire should be proud of strengthening its laws around equal pay for equal work in the last legislative session to provide workers with greater ability to uncover and address unequal pay – a bipartisan effort that Congress and the current field of presidential candidates would do well to follow.

On the same day of those murders – June 17 – President Barack Obama announced that the Treasury will introduce a new $10 bill in 2020 with the image of a yet-unidentified woman.