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The History of Women’s Equality Day At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 and passed in 1973,  the U.S. Cong...
08/26/2023

The History of Women’s Equality Day

At the behest of Rep. Bella Abzug (D-NY), in 1971 and passed in 1973, the U.S. Congress designated August 26 as “Women’s Equality Day.” The date was selected to commemorate the 1920 certification of the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote. This was the culmination of a massive, peaceful civil rights movement by women that had its formal beginnings in 1848 at the world’s first women’s rights convention, in Seneca Falls, New York. The observance of Women’s Equality Day not only commemorates the passage of the 19th Amendment, but also calls attention to women’s continuing efforts toward full equality. Workplaces, libraries, organizations, and public facilities now participate with Women’s Equality Day programs, displays, video showings, or other activities.

Women’s Equality Day, observed annually on August 26, marks a global recognition of the ongoing struggle for equal rights and opportunities for women. It serves as a tribute to the universal suffrage movement, celebrates women’s advancements, and reinforces the commitment to gender equality.

The theme for Women’s Equality Day 2023 is “Embrace Equity,” echoing through the strategic plan spanning from 2021 to 2026. This theme underscores the importance of achieving gender equality, not just for economic growth, but also as a fundamental human right.

Despite the progress we have made together advancing pay equity and childcare policies and legislation, mothers in New Y...
08/15/2023

Despite the progress we have made together advancing pay equity and childcare policies and legislation, mothers in New York and around the country, still struggle for pay equity and financial stability, which was dramatically highlighted by the pandemic. To raise awareness, National Mom's Equal Pay Day is being observed on August 15, 2023, the day that mothers catch up to fathers in terms of equal pay. https://www3.erie.gov/csw/press/moms-equal-pay-day

• Black or African American women in New York were paid 67.8 cents on the dollar while Hispanic and Latina women were pa...
07/27/2023

• Black or African American women in New York were paid 67.8 cents on the dollar while Hispanic and Latina women were paid only 62.9 cents on the dollar compared to men.

• Equal education DOES NOT mean equal pay. Black women w/ a bachelor’s degree or more had median earnings of $60,681 in 2020, compared to $91,805 for White males.

Learn more at our website, https://www3.erie.gov/csw/press/black-womens-equal-pay-day.

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07/10/2023

Erie County Commission on the Status of Women Unveils Designs for the Trailblazing Women Monument Project Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

FREE Community Conversation, Let It Flow With Confidence Who: Confident Girl Mentoring Program, Inc.When: June 30, 2023,...
06/20/2023

FREE Community Conversation, Let It Flow With Confidence

Who: Confident Girl Mentoring Program, Inc.
When: June 30, 2023, 5:30pm - 8:30pm
Where: Evergreen Commons, 67 Prospect Avenue, Buffalo, NY
What: Award-winning movie screening and Community Conversation

05/10/2023

Lactation support requires very few resources. Learn how you can benefit by retaining valued employees after childbirth.

On May 11, ECDOH and United Way of Buffalo & Erie County are presenting a panel discussion about compliance with the newly revised 2023 New York State and Federal Labor Laws.

Learn how your organization can earn the Breastfeeding Friendly Worksite designation from the Erie County Department of Health.

https://www3.erie.gov/health/press/erie-county-department-health-host-breastfeeding-discussion-united-way-buffalo-erie-county

Joan Bozer: Trailblazer, environmentalist, preservationist, public servant, women’s rights activist and beautiful soul. ...
05/08/2023

Joan Bozer: Trailblazer, environmentalist, preservationist, public servant, women’s rights activist and beautiful soul.

In 1985, Joan along with fellow Erie County Legislator, Mary Lou Rath encouraged then County Executive Ed Rutkowski to form a task force on the status of women which would evolve into the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women. When I became the Commission’s Executive Director in 2016, one of my first calls was to Joan. She always availed herself to me; advising, counseling and supporting me and the work of the Commission for many years. She was a treasure with an incredible thirst for life!

Erie County, NY Trailblazing Women of Western New York Tribute Garden WNY The Buffalo History Museum National Association of Commissions for Women Buffalo Olmsted Parks Conservancy

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing...
04/25/2023

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing resources throughout the month; please see today’s featured resource:

The National Organization of Sisters of Color Ending Sexual Assault (SCESA) is an advocacy organization of women of color dedicated to working with communities to create a just society in which all women of color can live healthy lives free of violence.


During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing...
04/20/2023

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing resources throughout the month; please see today’s featured resource:

Esperanza United mobilizes Latinas and Latin@ communities to end gender-based violence by helping Latina and Latin@ survivors, families, and communities gain greater safety, connectedness, and self-sufficiency.


During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing...
04/18/2023

During Sexual Assault Awareness Month, we look to support actions to end sexual assault once and for all! We are sharing resources throughout the month; please see today’s featured resource:

Asian Pacific Institute on Gender-Based Violence (APIGBV) a national resource center on domestic violence, sexual violence, trafficking, and other forms of gender-based violence in Asian/Asian-American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities.

Erie County Department of Health highlights Black Maternal Health Week, https://tinyurl.com/bdh5uu69 Erie County Departm...
04/12/2023

Erie County Department of Health highlights Black Maternal Health Week, https://tinyurl.com/bdh5uu69 Erie County Department of Health (ECDOH)

Today, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women catch up to what their white non-Hispanic male counte...
04/05/2023

Today, Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander women catch up to what their white non-Hispanic male counterparts earned last year. But when you look past the average, many AANHPI women face even wider wage gaps.

03/29/2023

“This is the psychological moment for us, as women, to show our true worth,” wrote Mary Burnett Talbert. Her earnest words, a clarion call for action, appeared in a 1917

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!Today we celebrate Barbara A. S...
03/22/2023

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!

Today we celebrate Barbara A. Seals Nevergold, Ph.D., and Peggy Brooks-Bertram, Dr. P.H., Ph.D, founders of the Uncrowned Queens Institute for Research and Education on Women. To learn more about the Institute, https://www3.erie.gov/csw/press/uncrowned-queens-institute-research-and-education-women



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories! Today we celebrate women telli...
03/17/2023

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!

Today we celebrate women telling our stories. Learn about Trailblazer Kelly Hayes McAlonie, author of a new book about Buffalo Trailblazer Louise Bethune Buffalo's first female professional architect in the United States: https://www.wgrz.com/video/entertainment/television/programs/most-buffalo/author-mcalonie-on-buffalos-first-female-architect/71-9a2a7db9-d063-448a-9a2f-10062a56bad2



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March 14 is Equal Pay Day 2023: https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/ Each year, this symbolic ...
03/14/2023

March 14 is Equal Pay Day 2023: https://www.aauw.org/resources/article/equal-pay-day-calendar/

Each year, this symbolic day is used to raise awareness around and combat the impact of pay inequities. Equal Pay Day 2023 is on March 14 and marks the current state of the gender pay gap: 84% for full-time workers and 77% for all workers (including part-time and seasonal).

2023 Equal Pay Days
• Equal Pay Day—representing all women—is March 14. Women working full-time, year-round are paid 84 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 77 cents for every dollar paid to men.
• LGBTQIA+ Equal Pay Awareness Day is June 15. Without enough data to make calculations, this day raises awareness about the wage gap experienced by LGBTQIA+ folks.
• Black Women’s Equal Pay Day is July 27. Black women working full-time, year-round are paid 67 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 64 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men.
• Moms’ Equal Pay Day is August 15. Moms working full-time, year-round are paid 74 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 62 cents for every dollar paid to dads.
• Latina’s Equal Pay Day is October 5. Latinas women working full-time, year-round are paid 57 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 54 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men.
• Native Women’s Equal Pay Day is November 30. Native women working full-time, year-round are paid 57 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 51 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men.
• Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander Women’s Equal Pay Day is TBD. Asian American, Native Hawaiian and Pacific Islander women working full-time, year-round are paid 92 cents and all earners (including part-time and seasonal) are paid 80 cents for every dollar paid to non-Hispanic white men.

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Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories! Today we will learn about Doro...
03/14/2023

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!

Today we will learn about Dorothy Fuldheim, television's first female news anchor, everyone should know: https://tinyurl.com/bp6bzc5b



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March 14th,  , is the symbolic date when full-time working women’s wages equal the wages earned by full-time working men...
03/14/2023

March 14th, , is the symbolic date when full-time working women’s wages equal the wages earned by full-time working men in the prior year. Calculated on 2021 data, that’s 84 cents on the dollar nationally, and 88.7 cents for New York. To get serious about addressing both historic wage inequality and current disruption in work for women, we must tackle all the root causes of the wage gap. New York has that opportunity now by taking bold action.



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories! Today we celebrate women telli...
03/13/2023

March is Women's History Month! Join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!

Today we celebrate women telling our stories. Learn about 10 Pioneering African American Women Journalists, everyone should know:



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

It took an inordinate amount of perseverance for the trailblazing Black female journalists to break into white male-dominated fields of correspondence, investigative reporting, broadcasting, and newspaper publishing: https://www.literaryladiesguide.com/trailblazing-journalists/10-pioneering-african-american-women-journalists/

03/08/2023

Today is International Women's Day — a day established by women at the turn of the century calling for safer working conditions and basic rights— so it's only fitting that today we honor labor & suffrage leader: Rose Schneiderman.

Read more about the life and legacy of Rose Schneiderman here: https://loom.ly/n0ZHCNI

More on the history of : https://loom.ly/OcU9h90

Please join the ECCSW for the next Roundtable Discussion Series:Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY
03/06/2023

Please join the ECCSW for the next Roundtable Discussion Series:

Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

The ECCSW kicked off Women's History Month at the Buffalo History Museum by Celebrating five WNY Women Who Tell Our Stor...
03/03/2023

The ECCSW kicked off Women's History Month at the Buffalo History Museum by Celebrating five WNY Women Who Tell Our Stories!



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March is Women's History Month! Please join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories! Today we celebrate wome...
03/02/2023

March is Women's History Month! Please join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories!

Today we celebrate women telling our stories. Learn about 15 Black women poets, everyone should know:



Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

It’s Women’s History Month!Thank you Chelsea Lovell, host of  WIVB/WNLO-TV Daytime Buffalo for inviting Commissioner Kar...
03/01/2023

It’s Women’s History Month!
Thank you Chelsea Lovell, host of WIVB/WNLO-TV Daytime Buffalo for inviting Commissioner Karen King, Executive Director of the ECCSW on your show today. Tune in at 3pm to hear all about Women’s History Month in WNY! Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

March is Women's History Month! Please join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women from Erie County Who Tell Our Stories!     Tr...
03/01/2023

March is Women's History Month! Please join the ECCSW in Celebrating Women from Erie County Who Tell Our Stories! Trailblazing Women of Western New York Erie County, NY

Welcome to Women's History Month! Join us for these exciting events happening all throughout March—see graphic for detai...
03/01/2023

Welcome to Women's History Month! Join us for these exciting events happening all throughout March—see graphic for details.

Learn more about the Erie County Commission on the Status of Women at: erie.gov/csw

Cc: Erie County, NY, Trailblazing Women of Western New York

Trailblazer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society ca...
02/22/2023

Trailblazer, Frances Ellen Watkins Harper, “We are all bound up together in one great bundle of humanity, and society cannot trample on the weakest and feeblest of its members without receiving the curse in its own soul,” she said at the 1866 National Women’s Rights Convention.

On the anniversary of her passing, The 19th's fellows honor the “mother of African American journalism,” who our HBCU fellowship is named for.

02/14/2023
02/14/2023

💡 Ever thought about joining an Erie County board? Erie County Senior Services and Youth Services are seeking individuals whose values align with their missions to serve as board members and advisors. See graphic for more details.

Learn more & apply: www4.erie.gov/transition/form/applying-for-a-board-position

More about Youth & Senior Services:
erie.gov/youthservices
erie.gov/seniorservices

A great opportunity for Erie County!
02/14/2023

A great opportunity for Erie County!

Tune in for Tuesday's General Session at the 2023 NACo Legislative Conference.

Read about Trailblazer, Stephanie Peete!
02/09/2023

Read about Trailblazer, Stephanie Peete!

Stephanie Peete, Director of Workforce Development at Say Yes Buffalo, spoke with WBFO about growing up in Buffalo and being a first time business owner.

Our next Racial Equity/DEI Roundtable Discussion is February 23. Join us for an in-depth conversation about the role med...
02/08/2023

Our next Racial Equity/DEI Roundtable Discussion is February 23. Join us for an in-depth conversation about the role media plays in racial equity & DEI narratives, with a stellar group of media leaders from our community!

See graphic for details. RSVP by Feb. 21 to: [email protected]

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A very special thank you to Dr. Karen King, Executive Director, Erie County Commissioner on the Status of Women, for honoring this writer during Women's History Month, 2018.
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