In celebration of this year’s Women’s Equality Day, Team AgLearn is providing information and resources to encourage engagement with this annual commemoration of the passage of the 19th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution.
The USDA’s 2024 theme, “Equality Starts with Empowered Women,” highlights the importance of fostering wellbeing and resilience of women in the workplace and society. Women’s Equality Day provides an opportunity to celebrate the progress made towards eliminating gender-based barriers and an impetus to create a future where women have equal opportunities in all areas of life.
A Departmental observance will be hosted on Wednesday, August 28, 2024, at 1:00 pm – 2:00 pm EST on the Whitten Patio and available live on Zoom. Register Here for the Departmental Observance External Link
Background
From the 1973 Joint Resolution External Link: “Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That August 26, 1973, is designated as ‘Women's Equality Day’, and the President is authorized and requested to issue a proclamation in commemoration of that day in 1920 on which the women of America were first guaranteed the right to vote. Approved August 16, 1973.”
Learn more about Women’s Equality Day External Link
Selected AgLearn Resources
- Learning Path: Women in Leadership External Link
- Course: Success Strategies for Women in the Workplace External Link
- Course: Own it: The Power of Women at Work External Link
- Course: Equity First: The Path to Inclusion and Belonging External Link
- eBook: Inclusion, Inc.: How to Design Intersectional Equity into the Workplace External Link
- eBook: Career and Family: Women’s Century-Long Journey toward Equity External Link
- Percipio-Skillsoft Channel: Women & Leadership External Link
- Percipio-Skillsoft Channel: Embracing Equity External Link
Events
AMS Women’s Equality Day Observance
AMS will hold a Women’s Equality Day observance virtually on August 20, 2024 @ 1 pm via Zoom. The keynote speaker is Ms. Ginger Baine Miller, CEO and Founder of Women Veterans Interactive Foundation. Her speech will be in line with the USDA theme, “Equality Starts with Empowered Women.”
Register for the AMS Women’s Equality Day Observance webinar.