In case you needed a reason to celebrate on this last Monday of August that wasn't Miley Cyrus making your most embarrassing moment look like Beyonce's Super Bowl halftime performance, today is National Women's Equality Day. Yay! Yay for being human just like a man!
President Obama, like every president since 1971, has issued a proclamation declaring today "Women's Equality Day." The day marks the 91st anniversary of the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote, and according to Obama it's a day to, "celebrate the achievements of women and recommit ourselves to the goal…
Today is Women's Equality Day, marking the 89th anniversary of women's suffrage. In some ways, we've come so far, but in other ways, we have such a long way to go.
[Los Angeles, August 23. Image via Getty]
A US soldier poses for a photograph with an Afghan woman during a ceremony held to celebrate Women's Equality Day in Bagram Air base, some 50 kms north of Kabul on August 26, 2008. Women's Equality Day is one of the many commemorations that the Army celebrates. About 25,000 US troops are based in Afghanistan under a…
