Friend,

Happy International Women’s Day! Today we celebrate women everywhere, while we also recognize that the fight for women’s rights is more urgent than ever.

Across the country, we’re seeing attacks on reproductive rights, after Joe Biden and the Democrats broke their promise to codify Roe v. Wade. The Equal Rights Amendment to ensure basic equality still has not been written into law, even though it has met the constitutional standard.

Sexual violence and abuse are still far too prevalent, with justice and accountability still too rare. And women’s work is still systematically devalued, as women in the workplace make just 78% as much as men, and too much of their work goes unrecognized and uncompensated.

For low-income women, as well as Black, Indigenous, and women of color, these problems are even worse, and trans women also face widespread discrimination and injustice.

The United States ranks 76th in the world in women’s representation in our national government, underscoring the urgent need for electoral reforms like ranked-choice voting and proportional representation that have been shown to help level the playing field.

And we can’t forget about the women of Gaza who are facing a genocidal assault that is killing tens of thousands and subjecting many more to hellish conditions of starvation, thirst, disease and deprivation.

Here’s the good news: all these problems are fixable. We just need to start electing candidates who will actually make women’s rights a priority - not just pay lip service.

We have an incredible opportunity to elect Jill Stein as our first woman president, and when we do, she will fight for you every day.

In solidarity,

The Jill Stein 2024 team