Women’s Equality Day

FARGO — We’re marking an important day today: 105 years of women’s right to vote in the United States.

August 26th is proclaimed Women’s Equality Day through the metro, and in both North Dakota and Minnesota.

It’s partly due to the work of the local League of Women Voters.

The League’s Lyn Dockter-Pinnick says suffrage wasn’t achieved as long ago as you might think.

Her own mother was born three years before it was made law.

And equality has been a slow process.

Dockter-Pinnick women weren’t allowed to hold credit cards in their own name until Dockter-Pinnick was in college.

The League issues comprehensive voting and redistricting guides and holds candidate forums.

For more information, including how to find and use their personalizable Vote411 online voter guide, check out the link below:

https://www.lwv.org/