Committee tests Kadena's Women's Equality Day knowledge

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  • By 1st Lt. Jamie Davis
  • 18th Contracting Squadron
KADENA AIR BASE, Japan --  August 26th serves as the national observance for Women's Equality Day, particularly celebrating a woman's right to vote.

Earning the right to vote was a major step towards total equality for women and has been the premise for other women's equality initiatives across the board.

The enduring and unwavering persistence of women like Elizabeth Cady Stanton have inspired and set the example for young women to follow and expound upon.

Women have made great strides towards equality. Efforts dating back to July 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, were the combination of hopes and beliefs that one day women would ascertain an equal level with men.

The Kadena Air Base Women's Equality Day committee is leading the 18th Wing in recognizing the efforts of those women and the women serving in all branches and locations across the world. To help celebrate Women's Equality Day, the committee offers the quiz below to challenge the wing's knowledge about the journey women have made to earn the right to vote.

Those who would like to submit their answers can e-mail them to womensequalityday@hotmail.com. The first five people to submit correct answers will also win a prize.

The subject line of the e-mail must read "WED quiz answers." The e-mail should contain the answers in the correct order and must include the participant's first and last name and phone number. The quiz is open now through Aug. 19 at noon. The five winners will be notified by Aug. 19 at 5 p.m.

1. August 26th is celebrated as Women's Equality Day to commemorate
a. The work women did during the Second World War.
b. The anniversary of women winning the right to vote.
c. The flappers of the 1920s.
d. The contemporary women's rights movement.

2. In what year did Congressman Bella Abzug introduce Legislation for Women's Equality Day?
a. 1992
b. 1984
c. 1971
d. 1965

3. In what year did women in the United States win the right to vote?
a. 1776
b. 1848
c. 1920
d. 1946

4. How many years did it take for women to win the right to vote in the United States (from the first Women's Rights Convention)?
a. 72 years
b. 120 years
c. 20 years
d. 51 years

5. Women in most of the western states won the right to vote years before the Federal Amendment was secured. This is the 91st anniversary of women in Kansas and Oregon winning the vote. What other state is celebrating the 91st anniversary of women winning the right to vote in their state?
a. New York
b. Florida
c. Maine
d. Arizona

6. What was the name given to the 19th Amendment to the Constitution, which guaranteed women's right to vote in the United States?
a. Abigail Adams Amendment
b. Sojourner Truth Amendment
c. Susan B. Anthony Amendment
d. Gloria Steinem Amendment

7. Women who worked for women's right to vote were called
a. Radical.
b. Immoral.
c. Suffragist.
d. All of the above

8. The term suffragist is derived from
a. One who suffers.
b. A voting tablet in ancient times.
c. The Constitution.
d. The Bill of Rights.

9. How many other countries had already guaranteed women's right to vote before the campaign was won in the United States?
a. 6
b. 2
c. 1
d. 16

10. What was the first country that granted women the right to vote?
a. Canada
b. Germany
c. New Zealand
d. United Kingdom