Women's Equality Day: programming for ERGs services for ERGs.

Women's Equality Day commemorates the August 26, 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment, with the formal day established by Congress in 1971 at the urging of Rep. Bella Abzug. The fuller historical record matters: the 19th Amendment removed sex as a barrier to voting on paper, but Black women across the Jim Crow South were effectively blocked from the franchise until the Voting Rights Act of 1965, and Native women weren't guaranteed citizenship until 1924. The Brennan Center, ACLU, and League of Women Voters all routinely surface that gap during August.

That gap — paper equality versus lived equity — is exactly the frame women's ERGs use to translate the day to the workplace. The Pew Research Center's most recent analysis puts the US gender pay gap at roughly 16 cents on the dollar unadjusted; the National Women's Law Center's annual breakdown shows the gap widens significantly for Black women (~64¢), Latina women (~52¢), and Native women. Posting one of those numbers without the others, or only the “adjusted” version, reads as marketing rather than accountability.