Women’s Equality Day: 86 Years and Still in the Making
August 21, 2006 ·
Eighty-six years ago this week, the 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. How consistently do you exercise the right that women of our grandmothers’ and great-grandmothers’ generations were beaten and imprisoned to achieve for you?
If you read my writing and musings, I assume you have an interest in women’s voices, building relationship and community, and negotiating effectively. Yet if you’re not registered to vote or don’t vote consistently, you’re not using your voice fully.
August 26 is Women’s Equality Day and the perfect time to explore how to use your voting voice best. Here are some places to start:
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The National Women’s History Project’s page on Women’s Equality Day
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For those of you of a certain political persuasion, EMILY’s List.
Here’s to using your full voice,
Copyright © 2006 by Tammy Lenski. All rights reserved.
Voting is such an important right that so many of us, in the U.S. anyway, take for granted. My husband grew up in Belgium, and you are required by law to vote in that country. So, he is amazed by our low turnouts here.
I vote in every election that I can, no matter how small the turnout is anticipated to be, or how unlikely my preferred candidate is to win. I have set up a bookmark folder in my favorites called “My Elected Respresentatives,” and I have links to each of their webpages. For the U.S., you can find your national representatives by going to http://www.congress.org and entering your zip code.
Kami, I LOVE your idea of the bookmark folder for your elected representatives. It’s a really handy way to quickly get directly to their contact and website information when you need it. My husband’s a political scientist and I bet he’ll like the idea to pass to his students, too. Many thanks for visiting and commenting!
Tammy,
Just looking at your web site—it’s so informative. Hope you’re well.
John
John, I appreciate you stopping by for a visit. It’s good to hear from you and I hope all is well!