321ACTION: Celebrate Women's Equality Day!
Ready to make a difference?
Friday is Women’s Equality Day, marking the 102nd anniversary of the certification of the 19th amendment. While in the United States women have had the legal right to vote for over a hundred years, we are still working to achieve true equality.
Here are three ways to get started:
1. Learn about the humanitarian crisis in Afghanistan
Since the Taliban took over Afghanistan a year ago, we have seen decades of progress towards gender equality destroyed. Promises of girls being able to attend school have been replaced by women and girls now being kept home denied the opportunity to read, learn, and grow.
Civil society organizations have come together to draft a new policy brief with recommendations for how government officials can preserve and advance gender equality in Afghanistan. Read it now!
Read Report: Futures In the Balance
2. Understand why we face an inequitable economic recovery
The economic recovery from the pandemic has exacerbated already existing inequities. Women, and in particular Black women and Latinas, are finding it difficult to make ends meet.
New research from the National Women’s Law Center (NWLC) shows that Black women and Latinas were more likely than white, non-Hispanic women and men to have lost employment income, not be able to afford enough food for their family, and be behind on rent.
Read the full report to learn more about our economy and who is being left behind in the recovery.
Read: Black Women and Latinas Continue to Face Economic Fallout from the Pandemic
3. Learn about survivors' experiences and needs
A person’s race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability impacts their economic security and financial stability. For survivors of domestic violence the impact is even more acute.
Freefrom surveyed survivors and found that: 92% of survivors experienced economic abuse, disabled survivors experienced 2x more harm than non disabled survivors, queer survivors were more than 2x more likely to have experienced sexual assault, and Indigenous and Black survivors were much more likely to experience police harassment/violence than white survivors (2.7x and 1.9x respectively).
Read the report or listen on Spotify to understand how race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, and disability affect survivors' experiences and needs.