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Try trying to explain to a first-grader why a bunch of conservative old white men are denying women their equal rights.

As appears in Ms. Magazine and originally published in Women’s eNews on December 26, 2022.

It was at first quiet and misty in Lafayette Park across from the White House where several hundred from various groups were gathering—namely Virginia National...

Correct the record, and publish the 28th Amendment once and for all!

On January 27, 2022, standing before the White House in below freezing temperatures just as the suffragists had done in 1917, Americans marked the two-year anniversary of ratification of the ERA, which...

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: December 6, 2022
CONTACT: Katie Stuntz, 202-355-3761 or Janine Kritschgau, 202-365-2176

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senator Tim Kaine led Senator Mark R. Warner and Representatives Gerry Connolly (VA-11), Don Beyer (VA-08), Elaine Luria (VA-02), Abigail Spanberger (VA-07), and Jennifer Wexton (VA-10) in calling for a vote by the full Senate before the end of the 117^th Congress...

The following are links to official abortion resolutions from around the state of Virginia.

• Alexandria
• Arlington
• Blacksburg

Our actions are solely focused on the U.S. Senate and Get Out the Vote (GOTV) until the midterm elections.

Advocates need to:

SHOW UP

RSVP for the September 28 rally: https://vanow.org/legislative-priorities/action-alerts/rally-for-equal-rights-repro-rights

1. Call and write Senators Warner and Kaine through October to have them pressure Schumer to bring ERA to the floor for a vote BEFORE the midterms
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Rally on 9-28 for the 28th Amendment

Join us to rally on the 28th for the 28th Amendment (the ERA) and help Virginia DEFEND its 38th State status as the historic and final, requisite state needed to enshrine the Equal Rights Amendment in the U.S. Constitution. The ERA saves Abortion and other repro rights! So, now we need to take our respective state fights to the national level. On 9/28, oral...

Bestcolleges.com has an article that looks at the gender pay gap for college-educated women, which hasn't budged in almost 20 years. Check out these statistics:

• Today, the average woman earns 80-84 cents for every dollar earned by a man.
• Women with college degrees make 74 cents for every dollar earned by equally educated men.
• The choice of major and occupation explains only part of the gender pay
...

A new study by WalletHub ranks all 50 states across 17 key indicators of gender equality. Virginia sits in the bottom-half of U.S. states, ranked 31^st, with an overall ranking of 54.61 on metrics such as workplace environment, education and health, and political empowerment.

Topping the list is New Mexico with a score of 70.03, and in 50th place is Utah, wich a score of 31.22. Virginia is...

Newly-elected Virginia NOW President Lisa Sales announced the start of an initiative, the Virginia NOW Law Audit Project (VLAP), at the statewide Virginia NOW conference June 4, 2022. The initiatve will review the Virginia Constitution, state statutes and administrative code to identify instances of sex/gender discrimination and make recommendations for use of gender-neutral terms.