A brief history and background of how this day came to be. Women’s Equality Day takes place every year on August 26th to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment of the United States Constitution, which gave women voting rights in 1920. This amendment was a culmination of a peaceful women’s rights movement that dated back to 1848, when the world’s first women’s rights convention occurred in Seneca Falls, New York. In 1971, representative Bella Abzug introduced a bill that declared August 26th W...