{"id":2010,"date":"2020-08-26T15:35:59","date_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/?p=2010"},"modified":"2020-08-26T15:35:59","modified_gmt":"2020-08-26T15:35:59","slug":"statement-by-speaker-corey-johnson-on-womens-equality-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/08\/26\/2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Statement by Speaker Corey Johnson on Women\u2019s Equality Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cToday on Women\u2019s Equality Day, we celebrate women\u2019s right to vote, and we commemorate the 100<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;anniversary since the 19<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;Amendment was adopted in the United States. Women were not simply handed the right to vote but fought for it. New Yorkers are grateful to the trailblazers of the Women\u2019s Suffrage movement for paving the way forward to gender equality.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cWhile this achievement benefited white women, the fight for all women\u2019s suffrage\u2014including Black, Latina, Asian\/Pacific Islander and Native women\u2014was far from over. The right for all women to vote should have come over 100 years ago, and we still have more work to do. The fight for equality continues, and I am excited to see women leading it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center wp-block-paragraph\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cToday on Women\u2019s Equality Day, we celebrate women\u2019s right to vote, and we commemorate the 100th&nbsp;anniversary since the 19th&nbsp;Amendment was adopted in the United States. Women were not simply handed the right to vote but fought for it. New Yorkers are grateful to the trailblazers of the Women\u2019s Suffrage movement for paving the way forward to gender equality.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhile this achievement benefited white women, the fight for all women\u2019s suffrage\u2014including Black, Latina, Asian\/Pacific Islander and Native women\u2014was far from over.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/2020\/08\/26\/2010\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2010","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2010"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2010\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2010"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2010"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/press\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2010"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}