Women’s Equality Day is a reminder that a true democracy is a feminist goal at it’s core, writes Jennifer Weiss-Wolf.
has continued to climb, reaching an all-time high in the 118th Congress—just over 28% . In the House, women broke records in the 2022 midterms, with 124 now serving, 27 of whom are Black and 18 are Latin. Women now comprise nearlyAnd still, the U.S. remains far from achieving fully representative governance compared to women’s actual population footprint; this is especially so for women of color. The U.S.
As for the other advances on the 1972 agenda? The ERA remains unfinished business and is still not enshrined in the Constitution. AndDobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organizationdecision, crudely distort the principles undergirding Women’s Equality Day and the goals of the NWPC. Justice Samuel Alito, who authored the majority opinion for, claimed women’s political advancement itself is an antidote to the Court’s reversal of a fundamental right.
Yes, women are now doing exactly that: running for office on, and voting consistently, overwhelmingly, and successfully for abortion rights everywhere the issue has appeared on the ballot since. But there are obvious flaws in Justice Alito’s appeal to women’s electoral and political power—and, for that matter, to the NWPC’s founding documents—suggesting gender parity alone should be a singular or even sufficient metric for achieving feminist goals.
It is exponentially hard to out-run and out-vote anti-democratic maneuvers like partisan gerrymandering, voter suppression—or, as we just saw in Ohio, an attempt to raise the threshold for winning a citizen-led ballot initiative as a way to stymie abortion rights. These are not examples of one-off transgressions or piecemeal degradation of our democratic systems, but rather deliberate and systemic mechanisms for defying the popular will.
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