I wish I could say that we are doing better, but, women are still fighting for the same rights they have always been fighting for, things like access to adequate health care, equal pay.
While today honors the 19th Amendment, this day also reminds us that women are not equal in pay, representation, in doctors offices (including research),
“Article-, Section 1. – The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
“Section 2. – Congress shall have power, by appropriate legislation, to enforce the provisions of this article.”
Some 88 years ago, the TN legislature was the 36th state to ratify women’s right to vote. (Of course, today, you’d never know that TN was that progressive towards women’s rights.)
One hundred and forty-four years after the Declaration of Independence, American women had earned the constitutional right to vote–thanks in large part to a woman named Febb Ensminger Burn and her son, Harry.
And I said in my opening, women hav not yet realized equal status with men.
- Women only make $.77 to a man’s dollar. Could you use the extra 23 cents?
- The US has no guaranteed medical leave for childbirth; we’re trailing 168 countries in the company of only Lesotho, Liberia, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
- The US is near the bottom of the list — again — in our public support for quality childcare for children of working parents.
- Our access to affordable birth control is now under attack.
- And our right to safe, accessible, legal abortion is threatened as never before.
- And finally, women still only make up 16 percent of our representatives in Congress.
While I am glad to have the rights I do have, I am sick and tired of fighting the backlash these rights have brought from the less progressive, it’s-all-about-me, GOP. It’s time to put equality into practice, a daddy nation continually brings us destruction and despair.
And I’d like a day — just ONE day — where no woman anywhere is sexually assaulted. That would be progress.
Amen to both you and what Rhea said. i think that more women need to stand up for the rights not in a nagging, passive way but a united front.
I hope to see that one day.
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