Women’s Equality Day celebrates the passage of the 19th Amendment, which granted women the right to vote on August 26, 1920. Power Of The PackThe women’s suffragist movement was successful in large part because a group of passionate women (and men) banded together to activate change. There may be subtle forces (such as unconscious bias) and not-so-subtle forces (such as blatant sexism) holding you back from advancement. Today, we should continue to come together, both women and men, in the fight for equality. However, these trailblazers committed to fight for what we now consider to be basic rights—such as women’s right to vote and own property—but that weren’t a given a hundred years ago.

Source: Forbes August 26, 2017 12:56 UTC