I have 10 minutes to wright something for Internationao Womens Day on the day itself this year of 2026. I would like to include photographs from the local majors office, as I have done before, of paintings organizedby by my friend Laila. The displae is on for the whole month, and I plant to stop in to view it as I have in past years. I will have to do that later, but I hope this date will be recorded anyway.
My time has been taken up these past few days righting about the role of Rosalynn Carter, the wife of the President, in the effort to ratify the equal rights amendment to the US Convension in 1975 and 1976 and beyond. It has been very interesting for me to research this because of my own involvement with the issue in North Carolina.
I have read a lot about the history of the ERA that has been illuminating. The shift from its being supported by Republicans, especially in the 1950s, to Democrats in the 1960s and 1970s. Actually, it was even opposed by Democrats before then, mainly because of the resistance of labor to support the bill. In fact, it wasn’t until Blacks became involved in supporting it that the Democrats finally came around. It had been seen as an upped class White women’s issue until then.
A keep turning was a 1973 meeting on International Women’s Day in Texas.
So I have been busy on women’s issues these days, not just the international women’s day as an issue itself.
