Beatty Celebrates 95th Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day
Beatty Celebrates 95th Anniversary of Women's Equality Day
COLUMBUS, OH – Today, U.S. Congresswoman Joyce Beatty (OH-03) celebrated Women's Equality Day, a day that marks the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution on August 26, 1920, which gave equality to women at the polls. Across the 72 years between the first major women's rights conference at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848, and the adoption of the 19th Amendment, America's suffragettes and their supporters marched and petitioned, risked imprisonment, and showed enormous courage and vision.
"On Women's Equality Day, we mark the progress our nation has made toward living up to America's founding ideals that we are all equal. Over the last 95 years, we have made great strides in advancing equality with women now making up nearly half the workforce and women serving in leadership positions in both government and the private sector," said Rep. Beatty. "While we acknowledge our progress, we must rededicate ourselves to the fight for women's equal access and opportunity."
Women on average are still paid only 78 cents for every dollar paid to men – an unacceptable wage gap that hurts families nationwide. This pay gap is made worse by a failure of many employers to deliver family-friendly workplace policies. All Americans, not just women, benefit from paid sick leave, paid maternity leave, and expanding affordable child care.
"On this Woman's Equality Day, let us do all we can to allow women to unleash their full potential, knowing that, when women succeed, America succeeds," Rep. Beatty stated.
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