The Department of Commerce is proud to join the nation in commemorating Women’s Equality Day. In 1971, Representative Bella Abzug championed a bill in the U.S. Congress to designate August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.” The bill says that “the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation annually in commemoration of that day in 1920, on which the women of America were first given the right to vote.”
This year the DOC Office of Civil Rights, in collaboration with the Federally Employed Women, Women of Commerce Chapter held a special panel event in celebration of Women’s Equality Day. View this conversation with three Federal employees who will share their career journeys.
