History of National Women's Equality Day

By A Staff Reporter : National Women's Equality Day has been celebrated for many years.In 1973 it was celebrated in the most outrageous manner. Since then, the then President of the United States announced the date.The date was chosen to commemorate the day in 1920 when Bainbridge Colby, who was then Secretary of State.Signed the Proclamation that gave women the constitutional right to vote in the United States.

In 1920, the day stood as the culmination of 72 years of campaigning for a massive civil rights movement for women. Before such movements, even respected thinkers such as Rousseau and Kant believed that women's inferior status in society was entirely logical and reasonable; Women were 'beautiful' and 'unfit for serious employment'.Over the past century, great women have proven these views wrong as the world has witnessed what women are capable of achieving, from the likes of Rosa Parks and Eleanor Roosevelt fighting for civil rights and equality to great scientists like Marie Curie, Rosalind Franklin.