CURRENT AFFAIRS: IMPORTANT DAYS
Women’s Equality Day – Observed on Aug 26
- Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.
- The fight for equality never really ends for women regardless of which milieu they may inhabit.
- On this Women’s Equality Day, watch rare films that depict women as beings with agency, self-belief and yes, a hunger for equality.
