When: Monday, August 24, 2020, 2:00 – 4:00 p.m. EDT
Online only: https://www.brookings.edu/events/gender-equality-100-years-after-the-19th-amendment
What: On August 26, 1920, the 19th amendment was adopted to the U.S. Constitution, granting some – though not all – American women the right to vote. 100 years later, relative equality at the ballot box has not been matched by equity in business, politics, the military, family life, and even retirement.
On August 24, as part of 19A: The Brookings Gender Equality Series, Brookings will host a webinar to examine the state of gender equality today and what needs to be done to achieve full equality for women in our society.
Tina Tchen, CEO of Time’s Up and former executive director of the White House Council on Women and Girls, will open the program with keynote remarks. Susan Ware, who serves as the honorary women’s suffrage centennial historian at the Radcliffe Institute’s Schlesinger Library at Harvard, will provide a brief historical overview of the women’s suffrage movement, then join Brookings experts Camille Busette, Elaine Kamarck, Isabel Sawhill, and Makada Henry-Nickie for a discussion of how gender equality has evolved since the amendment’s passage and what public reforms could cull the prevalence of gender-based discrimination today.
Viewers can submit questions via email to events@brookings.edu or on Twitter using #19A.