When given the chance, women have proven they will participate in the electoral process.

While all of these are important and significant events, it is the United States foreign policy that furthers the advancement of freedoms and rights for women that is the most striking for me.

While women certainly have made great strides toward pay parity in the past 30 years, there is still a gap in earnings between men and women in equivalent professions.

In fact, Social Security is the only source of income nationwide for 29 percent of unmarried elderly women.