It’s Women’s Equality Day and also the 2014 Arizona Primary today!
From wikipedia about August 26:
Women’s Equality Day is a day proclaimed each year by the United States President to commemorate the granting of the vote to women throughout the country on an equal basis with men. Women in the United States were granted the right to vote on August 26, 1920, when the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was certified as law. The amendment was first introduced many years earlier in 1878. Every president has published a proclamation for Women’s Equality Day since 1971 when legislation was first introduced in Congress by Bella Abzug. This resolution was passed designating August 26 of each year as Women’s Equality Day.
I checked online with Center for Women & Politics and more women reported voting in 2012 than men, 71.4% to 61.6%. More women were registered to vote in 2012 than men, 81.7% to 71.4%. See more data (even by age groups) at: http://www.cawp.rutgers.edu/fast_facts/voters/documents/genderdiff.pdf
So, come on Arizona women, vote today at the polls, if you haven’t already mailed in your early ballot. It was a tremendous battle to earn the right to vote back in 1920 (and previous years), so we women should not take the right to vote lightly.