Did you know it took women 72 years of ceaseless campaigning to finally win the right to vote in 1920? Not to mention having to fight the ridicule, ostracism, abuse and bullying along the way and even afterwards...much like what goes on at Media General and The Danville Register & Bee....
This Tuesday, August 26, Women's Equality Day, marks that anniversary. But I don't have to tell you that we have a long haul before women are truly equal.
If you think women are already equal consider these things:
* Women only make $.77 to a man's dollar. Could you use the extra 23 cents?
* The US has no guaranteed medical leave for childbirth; we're trailing 168 countries in the company of only Lesotho, Liberia, Papua New Guinea and Swaziland.
* The US is near the bottom of the list -- again -- in our public support for quality childcare for children of working parents.
* Our access to affordable birth control is now under attack.
* And finally, women still only make up 16 percent of our representatives in Congress.
Take time Tuesday and every day to remember, the fight is not over.
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