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Reflections on gender equality and the 19th Amendment at 100

Stephanie Aaronson,
Stephanie Aaronson Headshot
Stephanie Aaronson Senior Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics - Federal Reserve Board
Emily Cleffi-Tristani,
Emily Cleffi-Tristani
Emily Cleffi-Tristani Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications - Office of Communications
Christina Kwauk,
Christina Kwauk
Christina Kwauk Former Brookings Expert, Head of Climate and Education - Unbounded Associates
Robin J. Lewis,
Robin Lewis
Robin J. Lewis Associate Fellow and Senior Research Associate, Associate Director - Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS)
Amy Liu,
Amy Liu Headshot
Amy Liu Vice President - Metropolitan Policy Program, Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Molly E. Reynolds,
Molly Reynolds
Molly E. Reynolds Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Isabel V. Sawhill, and
Isabel V. Sawhill Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity

Morgan Welch
mw
Morgan Welch Senior Research Assistant & Project Coordinator - Center on Children and Families, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution

August 21, 2020

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Yellow roses signified you were for giving women the right to vote in 1920. They were plentiful Tuesday as it was the 100th anniversary of the Tennessee House of Representatives casting a vote that ratified the 19th Amendment (Tennessee was the state that got the amendment to its required threshold) a reenactment was held on the House floor of the vote in Nashville, Tenn. Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2020,
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We asked women at the Brookings Institution to share their thoughts on the 19th Amendment. One hundred years after American women gained the right to vote (on paper), what is the current state of gender equality in America? For more scholarship on this, visit 19A: The Brookings Gender Equality Series.

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Participants

Stephanie Aaronson Headshot
Stephanie Aaronson Senior Associate Director, Division of Research and Statistics - Federal Reserve Board
Emily Cleffi-Tristani
Emily Cleffi-Tristani Senior Advisor for Strategic Communications - Office of Communications
Christina Kwauk
Christina Kwauk Former Brookings Expert, Head of Climate and Education - Unbounded Associates
Robin Lewis
Robin J. Lewis Associate Fellow and Senior Research Associate, Associate Director - Anti-Corruption, Democracy, and Security (ACDS)
Amy Liu Headshot
Amy Liu Vice President - Metropolitan Policy Program, Adeline M. and Alfred I. Johnson Chair in Urban and Metropolitan Policy

Molly Reynolds
Molly E. Reynolds Senior Fellow - Governance Studies

Isabel V. Sawhill Senior Fellow Emeritus - Economic Studies, Center for Economic Security and Opportunity

mw
Morgan Welch Senior Research Assistant & Project Coordinator - Center on Children and Families, Economic Studies, Brookings Institution

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