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August 26, 2021

Women’s Equality Day is celebrated in the United States on August 26 to commemorate the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits the states and the federal government from denying the right to vote to citizens of the United States on the basis of sex.

Chargée d’Affaires Charisse Phillips gives us an account of her own experiences overcoming hurdles in her life to strive for gender equality.

The video is in Spanish

Chargée Phillips on Women's Equality Day