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Happy Women’s Equality Day!

Today, I’m taking time to reflect on how far our country has come to advance women’s rights on a day set to commemorate how the 19th Amendment was ratified more than a century ago.

Particularly here in Philadelphia, I am thinking about the often unaccredited Pennsylvania governor Hannah Callowhill Penn. Enslaved African refugee Oney Judge. Flag maker Betsy Ross. Abolitionist Lucretia Mott. African American doctor Rebecca Cole. Streetcar advocate Caroline LeCount. First woman dean of a medical school Ann Preston. LGBTQ+ advocates Barbara Gittings and Gloria Casarez.

Philadelphia’s history is chock-full of women who challenged racism, sexism, and classism wherever they saw it or by simply existing as they were. And while the 19th Amendment was a major step forward, we cannot forget that Black and Asian American women were only granted the right to vote 45 years later.

We’ve come so far in fighting for equal rights for women and we have so much more work to do to ensure that equality extends to all women .

In solidarity,

Derek Green
Councilmember At-Large
City of Philadelphia

P.S. Do you have a favorite untold story about a Philadelphia female leader? Reply to this message and let me know what it is. [[email protected]?subject=Philadelphia's%20Untold%20Stories]
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