Women's

Equality
Day
AUGUST,26
Women's Equality Day is celebrated in

the United States on August 26 to

commemorate the 1920 adoption of

the Nineteenth Amendment

(Amendment XIX) to the United States

Constitution.
1872-Susan B. Anthony went to the polls in

Rochester, NY, and cast a ballot in the

presidential election. She was arrested and fined

$100, which she refused to pay

The female vote in the United States is

one of the most important movements

as part of the fight for women's rights.

Women's suffragists parade in New

York City in 1917, carrying placards

with the signatures of more than a

million women

Eguality
Important Figures

Two important

figures in the

antislavery

movement, and later

in the suffragette.

Elizabeth CadyStaton Lucretia Mott

Event Important

Seneca Falls Convention

in 1848.
Already in the

twentieth century,

the figure of Alice

Paul emerged as one

of the most

important to achieve

the female vote

 Women' Rights Timeline
Seneca Falls Convention The
1848
first women's rights

convention

National Women Suffrage

1869 Association

The 19th Amendment is

1920
signed into law.

The first woman elected to the

1932
Senate, and the first woman to fly.
 Women' Rights Timeline

More women are given the 1948

right to vote

1963 The Equal Pay Act.

The Equal Rights

Amendment was sent to the

1972
states for ratification.

The ERA had only been ratified by 35

1982
states.
 Women' Rights Timeline

Madeline Albright becomes

1996
the first female U.S. Secretary

of State.

2005 Condoleza Rice - U.S.

Presidential nomination race

2008
- Hillary Clinton.
Statistics
Women make up half Of
64%
illiterate adults are

of the world's women

population and yet

70%
represent

of the world's poor

Women Work 2/3 of the worlds hours

Yet earn 1/10 of the world's income

7.8% The proportion of countries with a female head

of government
 Educate Learn

yourself about

about voting women’s

Women’s Equality
rights. history.
Day :

ACTIONABLE WAYS

Support

women

running

for office
" The humanity of all Americans is diminished

when any group is denied rights granted to

others"

Julian Bond

American social activist,

leader of the civil rights
movement