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Today at Ms. | August 28, 2023
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“I will continue to fight for the Equal Rights Amendment as I have throughout my career,” said President Joe Biden in his official 2023 Women’s Equality Day proclamation. (Olivier Douliery / AFP via Getty Images)
BY ROXY SZAL | President Joe Biden issued a challenge to Congress on Saturday “to act swiftly to recognize ratification of the [Equal Rights Amendment]”—part of his official proclamation on Women’s Equality Day.
“It is long past time to definitively enshrine the principle of gender equality in the Constitution,” said Biden. “Together we can and must build a future where our daughters have all the same rights and opportunities as our sons, where all women and girls have a chance to realize their God-given potential, and where we can finally realize the full promise of America for all Americans.”
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‘Jane Crow’ and the March on Washington [[link removed]]
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A young woman at the March on Washington on Aug. 28, 1963. (U.S. National Archives / Creative Commons)
BY JEANNE THEOHARIS | Much of the national memorialization of the civil rights movement maintains a “great man” version of history. Women regularly appear in tributes to the movement, but a clear sense of their leadership, lives and organizing efforts is often missing.
One key example of that marginalization took place at the 1963 March on Washington. The crucial roles Black women played and the ways they were sidelined at the march have received limited mention in the ways the march has been memorialized.
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‘Oppenheimer’ and the Work of Wives [[link removed]]
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Emily Blunt as Katherine “Kitty” Oppenheimer in Oppenheimer. (Universal Pictures)
BY ALEXANDRA JUHASZ | In Oppenheimer, Nolan’s depiction of atomic history is credited to one man. We sometimes see women and wives, albeit as a backdrop. Emily Blunt and Frances Pugh do great work with very few words spoken. The women’s work in—in this case meaning their function—is sexual: as muse, mistress, mama. But any potential power in these roles shifts at the whims of men. The real performances of this film—science, law, politics, violence, espionage—are seen and spoken without them.
“What work do wives do? They understand male scientific and military might and destruction from the perspective of the unwitting receiver (or observer or support), which is the role most of us play.”
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