Women’s Equality Day 2021 Theme, History, Significance, Activities, Facts and more

26 August is celebrated every year as Women’s Equality Day globally. The day marks the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution in 1920. According to this amendment, from that day every woman in the country was eligible to vote. The day also aims to provide equal opportunities to women in education and employment. Let us tell you more about Women’s Equality Day, its 2021 Theme, History, Significance, Activities, Facts and more.

History and Significance

In 1972, Women’s Equality Day was celebrated for the first time. That time US President Richard Nixon announced the celebration of this day in the United States of America. Since then, every year it is proclaimed by the President of the United States.

Last year, former US President Barack Obama read “Nearly one century ago, with boundless courage and relentless commitment, dedicated women who had marched, advocated, and organized for the right to cast a vote finally saw their efforts rewarded on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment was certified and the right to vote was secured. In the decades that followed, that precious right has bolstered generations of women and empowered them to stand up, speak out, and steer the country they love in a more equal direction.”

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Women’s Equality Day 2021 Theme

The theme of Women’s Equality Day 2021 has not been announced yet.

How to Celebrate Women’s Equality Day? Activities

Here are few tips to celebrate Women’s Equality Day this year.

• Set up a women-specific internship program
• Offer a college scholarship to your best female employees who want to pursue higher studies.
• Consider doing some charity for the homeless women.
• Organize lunch and learn sessions with some women leaders of your region.
• You can visit schools or join students in their online classes and do a reading session on gender studies.
• Take individual inputs on ways to improve job satisfaction and women’s safety at work.

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Facts

• The women’s movement in the United States began in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott discussed the social, civil, and religious status and rights of women at the Seneca Falls Convention held in New York.
• The Seneca Falls Convention was the first-ever women’s convention in America attended by women leaders and abolitionists like Frederick Douglass.

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