Did you know that…

…. Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John asking him to “remember the ladies” when writing the US Constitution and grant them the right to vote?

…Illinois, Emmy’s home state, was the first state east of the Mississippi to grant women suffrage?

…although the nineteenth amendment granted many women the right to vote, due local laws, such as Jim Crow legislation, women of color remained disenfranchised for decades.

…after the nineteenth amendment was passed, the women of Illinois formed a new organization called the League of Women Voters?

…the bicycle, which allowed women to travel unchaperoned, was considered scandalous?

…the Chicago World’s Fair of 1893 celebrated four hundredth anniversary of the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus in 1492? Due to financial crisis, the celebration was held a year later.

…the women’s building at the Chicago World’s Fair was the first of its kind designed by a female architect?

…women have been fighting for equal pay for more than a century? According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the annual income, on average, for a woman working fulltime in 2020, equaled only 82 cents for every dollar a man earned. The gap is even wider for women of color. Some progress has been made. In 1973, women earned only 57 cents for every dollar a man earned.