Equal Rights

Support ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment and efforts to bring laws into compliance with the goals of the ERA. Support equal rights for all under state and federal law regardless of race, color gender, religion, national origin, age, sexual orientation, or disability.

Marblehead Citizens Take Action on US League of Women Voter Priorities

Take action with the league of women voter national issues

Submitted by Marblehead in September 2020.

Action Alerts

Get involved! There are many ways to have your voice heard by elected officials and policy makers. Choose what's important to you and take action today. Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Submitted by Montana in September 2020.

Event Date:

Sep 17 2020 06:00 pm to Sep 18 2020 05:45 pm

Event location:

Virtual Panel Discussion

Four distinguished panelists - Forward Montana Executive Director, Kiersten Iwai, Montana Women Vote Community Organizer, Ekoo Beck, and MSU Professors Tomomi Yamaguchi and Franke Wilmer - wil

Submitted by Orange Coast in August 2020.

Action Alerts

The time is now to confront racism in our criminal justice system.

Submitted by Delaware in August 2020.

News

Leaderosity is another DEI resource sponsored and promoted by the LWVUS.

Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias

Submitted by Wheaton, Illinois in August 2020.

Event Date:

Aug 24 2020 07:00 pm to Aug 25 2020 06:45 pm

Event location:

via Zoom

Be an active participant in respectful discourse with other individuals on these timely topics and the role these concepts play in systemic racism. (There is an afternoon and evening session for this event.) This 7 - 8 p.m.

Submitted by Wheaton, Illinois in August 2020.

Event Date:

Aug 24 2020 01:30 pm

Event location:

via Zoom

Submitted by Delaware in July 2020.

News

The Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee encourage you to take this 21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge.

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Submitted by Central Delaware County in July 2020.

Position

LWV is an organization fully committed to diversity, equity, and inclusion in principle and in practice.

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Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Equal Rights Amendment Text

Submitted by The Charleston Area in July 2020.

Action Alerts

ERA Advocacy Needed Now

Submitted by Idaho in July 2020.

Press Mention

WASHINGTON – Late Tuesday, the League of Women Voters of the United States filed a friend of the court brief in the federal lawsuit Commonwealth of VA, IL, and NV v. Ferriero, a case that supports ratifying the Equal Rights Amendment (ERA

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Marblehead Citizens Take Action on US League of Women Voter Priorities

Get involved! There are many ways to have your voice heard by elected officials and policy makers. Choose what's important to you and take action today. Democracy is not a spectator sport.

Bozeman - Virtual Panel Discussion: Expanding the Arc of the Suffrage Story

Confront Racism in California Courts, LWVC Action Alert

Leaderosity - LWVUS

Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias - 7:00 pm

Living Room Conversation: Understanding Stereotypes, Prejudice, and Bias - 1:30 pm

21-Day Racial Equity Habit Building Challenge

Diversity Equity and Inclusion

Ratification of the Equal Rights Amendment

LWVUS Joins Case to Advance the Equal Rights Amendment

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