These are the women who fought for change by striking out on their own path.
Monday marks International Women’s Day, an annual commemoration of women, civil awareness, anti-sexism and anti-discrimination.
The day’s campaign theme for 2021 is #ChooseToChallenge, which organizers hope will inspire many to examine and challenge biases and stereotypes, as well as hold up and celebrate women s achievements. A challenged world is an alert world, the International Women s Day website says. We can all choose to challenge and call out gender bias and inequality.
Celebrations for International Women s Day this year have gone virtual in light of the pandemic, and the International Women s Day website notes the many different events occurring in the 47 countries listed as observing the holiday.
Melvin I. Urofsky on the Living History of Affirmative Action in America
December 14, 2020
In 1993, the New York City Fire Department issued a curious order, namely that no pictures could be taken of Brenda Berkman, a 15-year veteran of the force, on or off duty, inside or outside a firehouse. This proved to be one last gasp in the protest against women in what had been an all-male preserve for the department’s 117-year history.
The fight had started much earlier. In 1971, Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson issued an order calling on all federal contractors to take affirmative action to eliminate sex discrimination. That order had little effect, and in 1977 the Office of Federal Contract Compliance announced that it planned “to get tough” with building and construction contractors who failed to seek out and train women for work on everything from steel girders to bricklaying. According to Weldon Rougeau, the head of the office, parents should start talking to their daughte
flew at martin luther king jr. s funeral. that was the georgia patch. you can see on the far side there there s active duty military people. they are sewing a part of the flag that flew over the pentagon on september 11th. and, you know, the spirit here, nobody here is talking about terrorists or war or anything. everybody here is talking about the day after september 11th when we saw so much unity and so much bravery by first responders. and that s really the spirit i think that what they want to do is reclaim that from history and be able to have that be as much a part of the story as terrorists or war or anything along those lines, anderson. jim, i appreciate that. one of the things we were talking about before is i do think on this day and in the years ahead it s not the names of terrorists that americans remember, nor necessarily are they important. they have disappeared in history and will. tights victims here whose names should be remembered and the names, obviously,
ground zero where it was heavily damaged. the white spots turned gray. it had rips and tears. all this year jeff and his group, new york says thank you, have been going around the country repairing it spot by spot with flags that have flown over other disaster sites and things like that. this portion of the flag flew over pearl harbor when it was bombed. this section right here, this flew at martin luther king jr. s funeral. that was the georgia patch. you can see on the far side there there s active duty military people. they are sewing a part of the flag that flew over the pentagon on september 11th. and, you know, the spirit here, nobody here is talking about terrorists or war or anything. everybody here is talking about the day after september 11th when we saw so much unity and so much bravery by first responders. and that s really the spirit i think that what they want to do is reclaim that from history and be able to have that be as much a part of the story as terrorist