1/8/2023 0 Comments Womens rights timelimeWe issued a call to action to eliminate racial disparities in maternal health care, which disproportionately impact Black and Indigenous women. We are fighting to lower the costs of child care and provide access to free preschool for all three- and four-year olds. We are working to expand access to health care, including reproductive health care for all people regardless of their gender, race, ethnicity, income, or zip code. We are confronting the epidemic levels of violence that transgender women and girls continue to face. We have taken critical steps to end the scourge of gender-based violence and advocate for the long overdue reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act - legislation that I was proud to author and champion as a United States Senator. Through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, we are working to ensure equitable access to good-paying jobs, particularly in sectors where women have historically been underrepresented. Through the American Rescue Plan, my Administration delivered immediate relief to women and families, funded domestic violence and sexual assault services, supported child care providers, and invested in care workers - who are disproportionately women of color. Through historic Executive actions, my Administration launched Government-wide efforts to advance gender equity and equality, racial equity, and LGBTQI+ equality. My Administration has made this issue a top priority from day one. The Congress sent the Equal Rights Amendment to the States for ratification 50 years ago and it is long past time that the principle of women’s equality should be enshrined in our Constitution. Workers contend with gender and racial wage gaps that can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars denied over the course of their lifetimes. Wade is facing an unprecedented assault as States pass increasingly onerous restrictions to critical reproductive health care and bodily autonomy. The constitutional right to abortion established in Roe v. The COVID-19 pandemic has exposed and exacerbated those disparities which have disproportionately impacted women’s labor force participation, multiplied the burden on paid and unpaid caregivers, and increased rates of gender-based violence. Women and girls continue to lead groundbreaking civil rights movements for social justice and freedom, so that everyone can realize the full promise of America.īut despite the progress being made, women and girls - especially women and girls of color - still face systemic barriers to full participation and wider gaps in opportunity and equality. LGBTQI+ women and girls are leading the fight for justice, opportunity, and equality - especially for the transgender community. Women of the labor movement are achieving monumental reforms to help all workers secure the better pay, benefits, and safety they deserve. Standing on the shoulders of the heroines who came before them, today’s women and girls continue to carry forward the mission of ensuring our daughters have the same opportunities as our sons. Suffragists helped pass the 19th Amendment to the Constitution so that no American could be denied a vote on the basis of sex. Black women fought to end slavery, advocate for civil rights, and pass the Voting Rights Act. Generations of Native American women were stewards of the land and continue to lead the fight for climate justice. Throughout our history, despite hardship, exclusion, and discrimination, women have strived and sacrificed for equity and equality in communities across the country.
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