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Thanks to Debbie Laskey, MBA for including We the Men: How Forgetting Women's Struggles for Equality Perpetuates Inequality on her list of recommended summer reads. I appreciate it! #WeTheMen debbielaskeysblog.com/2025/07/11-non…

On this day in 2000, Venus Williams won her first Wimbledon victory, but received less money than the male singles champion. Williams pushed for equal pay, and finally took home equal prize money when she won her 4th Wimbledon title in 2007. #WeTheMen tennis.com/news/articles/…

OTD in 1978, 100,000+ people marched to support the ERA. Today, the required 38 states have ratified the ERA, but the last 3 came after the deadline Congress inserted into the resolution sending the ERA to the states. It is time for Congress to remove that deadline. #WeTheMen

OTD in 1875, Mary McLeod Bethune was born. She founded Bethune-Cookman College & spent a lifetime advocating for civil rights. Bethune left an amazing last will & testament, leaving “love,” “hope,” “a thirst for education” & “respect for the uses of power” cookman.edu/history/last-w…

OTD in 1973:Billie Jean King & Bobby Riggs announced that they would play each other in a winner-take-all tennis match. Riggs had denigrated female athletes & contended that even at 55 he could beat the top female tennis stars. That fall, King beat him in straight sets. #WeTheMen

OTD in 1984, Walter Mondale named Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate, making her the 1st female vice presidential nominee from a major party. She said: “This choice says a lot about [Mondale], about where the country has come, and about where we want to lead it.” #WeTheMen

OTD in 1848, Jane Hunt, Mary Ann McClintock, Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Martha Wright decided to hold the first woman’s rights convention in the US. They scheduled the meeting to begin on July 19, 1848, in Seneca Falls, NY, and began spreading the news. #WeTheMen

OTD in 1917, 16 suffragists picketing the White House were arrested & sentenced to 2 months in the Occoquan Workhouse for “obstructing traffic.” Amelia Himes Walker was 1 of them. After the 19th Amend.’s ratification, she continued to work for woman’s rights & the ERA. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1864, Maggie Lena Walker was born to enslaved parents. She became the 1st woman to charter a US bank. St. Luke Penny Savings Bank helped African American customers in the South help themselves when public institutions would not. #WeTheMen womenshistory.org/education-reso…

On this day in 1862, Ida B. Wells was born. She became a journalist, civil rights champion, and anti-lynching crusader. Wells lobbied Congress to pass anti-lynching legislation, but Congress did not make lynching a federal hate crime until 2022. #WeTheMen nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/id…

OTD in 1917, suffragist Elizabeth Rogers was sent to jail for picketing the White House. She told the judge that women were protesting the President, "who has the power to start in motion the machinery which will give women suffrage and who does not do so.” #WeTheMen

OTD in 1891, Doris Fleischman was born. She became a feminist & kept her last name after marrying in 1922. She was the 1st married American woman to have a passport issued under her "maiden name." She told authorities that she did not want "to travel under a false name.”#WeTheMen

Betsy Jochum was a star pitcher and outfielder for the South Bend Indiana Blue Sox, until the team tried to trade her in 1948 b/c she asked for a raise. The Wall Street Journal just published a great obit about her and the All-American Girls Professional Baseball League. wsj.com/sports/basebal…

OTD in 1848, 300 people gathered for the first woman’s rights convention in the US. The Seneca Falls Convention adopted a Declaration of Sentiments proclaiming “that all men and women are created equal.” Much of their agenda remains unfinished. #WeTheMen nps.gov/wori/learn/his…

OTD in 1970, Rep. Martha Griffiths collected enough signatures (218 out of 435 Reps) for a discharge petition that freed the Equal Rights Amendment from the House Judiciary Committee. Committee Chair Emanuel Celler had kept the ERA trapped for decades without a hearing. #WeTheMen

On this day in 1923, the National Woman’s Party officially launched its campaign for an Equal Rights Amendment declaring that: “Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction.” #WeTheMen

OTD in 1939, Jane Bolin became the 1st black female judge in the US. She said this about women’s rights: “Those gains we have made were never graciously and generously granted. We have to fight every inch of the way — in the face of sometimes insufferable humiliations.” #WeTheMen

On this day in 1937, women finally convinced Congress to repeal a 1932 law providing that layoffs of federal employees would target married people whose spouses also worked for the federal government. Predictably, many more wives than husbands lost their jobs. #WeTheMen

OTD in 1920, Bella Abzug was born. She spent her life championing feminism & civil rights. When she ran for Congress in 1970, she declared: This woman’s place is in the House . . . the House of Representatives! She won & many female candidates have repeated her slogan. #WeTheMen

OTD in 1897, Elizabeth Packer died. Her husband had her committed to an asylum for 3 years by falsely claiming that she was insane. After getting out, she pushed for a 1867 Illinois law guaranteeing public hearings before anyone, inc. wives, could be institutionalized. #WeTheMen