A Mother's Day gift we must deliver: Legal and financial equality for women
Steve Corbin
Only America and 49 other countries — out of 187 — celebrate Mother’s Day. Besides relatives showering women with cards, flowers and gifts, there is a long-overdue action we must deliver to females.
In a letter dated March 31, 1776, the eventual First Lady Abigail Adams told her husband John Adams (ensuing second president of the United States), as he and other men set off to form the new American democracy: “Remember, John, … if particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we … will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.”