- Women’s Equality Day is celebrated every year on 26 August.
- The day acknowledges the ongoing global struggle for equal rights and opportunities for women.
- It serves as a tribute to the universal suffrage movement and celebrates the progress of women.
- The day reinforces the commitment to achieve gender equality at the global level.
- The theme for Women’s Equality Day 2023 is “Embrace Equality”.
- This theme is in line with the Strategic Plan from 2021 to 2026.
Women’s Equality Day
- It begins with the ratification of the Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which gives women the right to vote.
- Its importance is attached to 26 August 1970, which celebrated the 50th anniversary of this important amendment.
- The National Organization for Women (NOW) took advantage of this opportunity by advocating a “strike for equality”.
- More than 100,000 women participated in strikes organized by NOW in more than 90 major US cities.
- The wide participation in the strike highlighted the importance of continuing efforts toward gender equality.