We can pass real policies that will improve the lives of every North Dakotan and make real progress toward equality. But if these policies sound astonishingly beneficial to all Michiganders, that’s because women’s issues are truly everyone’s issues, and working to promote equality will only move all of us forward. We don’t have to wait for Congress to act.
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The status quo is inadequate and passing more restrictive policies is unacceptable: Our constituents deserve action on the issues that actually impact women.
It’s time to update the economy with policy changes that reflect the modern realities facing millions of women who are working both inside and outside the home to support themselves and their families. “One to take the opportunity to vote, because that’s what they spent their lives work doing is to give us that opportunity to really allow our voices to be heard and we have the courage to be able to do just that”.
“Presently, the only right a woman has under the law is the right to vote – it is the only constitutional right a woman has”, Jackson said. The new gender gap is not in voting. For women of color, the gender pay gap is even bigger. We are also better equipped to decide when and if we start a family, and we have more seats at the table in boardrooms and elected chambers across the country. We need to pick up the pace of change substantially if we want to reach parity in the near future. The “national demonstration for women’s rights” in 1970 marked the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment.
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On Wednesday, we look back on all that women have gone through to make today possible and thank them. Schoolbooks may note August. 26, 1920, as an important date in American history, but the story behind the Women’s Suffrage Movement and its social and political significance are too often ignored. Hawken has served as Chair of Women in Government and most recently was the recipient of the 2015 Planned Parenthood Federation of America’s Barry Goldwater Award. The phone number is for verification purposes only.
