“There is no reason why a woman could not do this.” Two NFL teams have contacted Carli Lloyd, 37, a star on both the 2015 and 2019 U.S. Women’s World Cup championship teams after seeing a video of her nailing a field goal from 55 yards out. Lloyd was just playing around at the Eagles’ […]
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Today is Women’s Equality Day
Today is Women’s Equality Day, commemorating the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution that gave women the right to vote—in theory. In 1973 the U.S. Congress designated August 26 to mark the conclusion of a massive, peaceful, civil rights movement by women that began in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights […]
New woman’s suffrage book published
Barbara Berenson, a recently retired Senior Attorney at the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court, has published Woman Suffrage Movement: Revolutionary Reformers,” about the fundamental role Massachusetts activists played in the movement over the course of three generations. “It’s important to have a knowledge of history,” Berenson said. “What that has shown us is that a step […]
Soccer women sue for salary and support
The U.S. women’s soccer team, winner of four Olympic gold medals, three World Cup championships, and ranked No. 1 in this year’s World Cup match that began June 7 in France, is suing U.S. Soccer for gender discrimination. The class action suit declares that, compared to the men’s team—which has never won a World Cup […]
Celebrating a 70-year struggle to vote
It took seven decades of steady, often brutal, campaigning to get United States women the right to vote. The activism began in 1848 when Elizabeth Cady Stanton and friends shocked the local patriarchy by getting together in a church to tell their menfolk what they expected out of life. At that point, men should have […]
NYC plans another woman’s statue
New York City, in its continuing quest to increase diversity–think female–among its public statuary, will honor two LGBT rights activists who participated in the 1969 Stonewall rebellion. Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson will be honored with a monument in Greenwich Village. The Stonewall uprising marks its 50th anniversary this year. The monument will be […]
