August 26, 2016

  • U.S. swimmer Katie Ledecky , bottom, competes in the women's 800-meter freestyle final during the Olympics in Rio de Janeiro Aug. 11. She took gold inthe event. (CNS photo / Patrick B. Kraemer, EPA)

"So I'm a feminist and you all should be feminists, because feminism is another word for equality."

- Malala Yousafzai

Today is Women's Equality Day (in the United States, created by Congress in 1971 as a commemoration of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution that extended the right to vote to women, in 1920).