US: August 26 as Women’s Equality Day

August 26 is celebrated as Women’s Equality Day in the United States In 1920, on August 26, the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution was adopted. Amendment XIX prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens on the basis of sex. The day was first celebrated in 1973 and since then it has been an annual event.
Women in US takes out rallies and stops working at this day to bring into light inequalities faced by them in terms of employment and education. Women from over 90 cities across the country participate in the demonstrations and rallies and even took to statue of liberty. No immediate change was done but it is covered by whole world media.
On August 16, 1973, the Congress approved H.J. Res. 52, which announced that August 26 be designated as Women’s Equality Day. It states, ‘the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the women in American were first guaranteed the right to vote’.
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