Women have made great strides in the fight for equality, but gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many—especially immigrants, women of color, women with low incomes, and victims of domestic violence.
International Women’s Day (March 8) and Women's History Month (March) offer an opportunity to celebrate women and the strides we’ve made towards equality, and to recommit ourselves to the ongoing struggles for women's rights, such as ensuring economic and educational opportunities for all women, ending violence against women, and addressing the harms to women and girls caught up in the criminal justice system.
Since 1972 the ACLU Women's Rights Project has been working to systematically end discrimination against women and girls and to challenge the obstacles that prevent women and girls from participating fully in all aspects of society.
> Invite friends and supporters to a screening of Freedom Files: Women's Rights, followed by a group discussion, facilitated by the Organizers' Toolkit. If you are a student, encourage a campus women's rights groups to host a screening.
> Write a Letter to the Editor calling attention to Women's History Month for your local paper. Pick a women's rights issue you feel strongly about and explain why recognizing Women's History Month and continuing the fight for women's equality is important to you.
Although breast cancer primarily affects women, each year, thousands of men are diagnosed with the disease. However, men with breast cancer are denied Medicaid insurance for treatment, such as chemotherapy, simply because they are not women.
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