Today the Nation celebrates the 91^st Anniversary of Women’s Equality Day. Each year Women’s Equality Day is celebrated on August 26th to commemorate the 1920 passage of the 19^th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. Congress designated this date in 1971 to honor women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Spearheading the effort was U.S. Representative Bella Abzug (D-NY).  This year in California we also have the honor of celebrating the 100th Anniversary of the Women’s Right to Vote in our state.

Women winning the right to vote was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York. In addition to celebrating the voting rights of American women, Women’s Equality Day also symbolizes the continued fight for equality, justice, peace, and development for women from various nationalities, ethnicities, cultures, religions, economic and political backgrounds.

The Glendale Commission on the Status of Women invites you to celebrate and reaffirm women’s right to vote –and honor the heroic suffrage movement that won that right for all women by registering to vote!

To register – visit the Secretary of State’s office at http://www.sos.ca.gov/elections/elections_vr.htm