Even though Hillary Clinton, the 67th Secretary of State, lost against Donald Trump, former reality game show host of "The Celebrity Apprentice,"in the 2016 American presidential election, even though 66 million girls worldwide are currently denied of education because of their gender: there is strong evidence to suggest that one day, men and women will be treated equally.
Because yesterday marchers proved that "we are the miraculous." Maya Angelou's call to action in "A Brave and Startling Truth" proclaims that "when we come to it," we have the power to "fashion for this earth / A climate where every man and every woman / Can live freely without sanctimonious piety / Without crippling fear." Yesterday, the Women's March on Washington spread worldwide from New York, Chicago, and San Francisco to Paris, London, Melbourne, and Tokyo. There was even a march planned in Antartica according to USA Today.
After the outcome of the presidential election, I wanted to say that no progress in women's rights has been made over the past couple of decades. That may be true. According to CNN, former college roommates Jessica Sisto, Penny Martinand, and Lisa Levine marched on Washington twenty five years ago because the Supreme Court was threatening to overturn Roe v. Wade. Just like some of my college friends yesterday morning who woke up at 4 a.m. from their dorms and hopped on a bus to participate in the Women's March on Washington.
Twenty five years later, they reunited in D.C to participate in yesterday's march.
"Sadly, I feel that not much has changed," Levine said in the CNN interview. "There was a time between then and now where I thought we were making progress but one of the things that was clear to me from the election cycle was that not much has changed."
None of us can know how yesterday's March on Washington will impact women's and other human rights. But I am so proud of my friends and the more than one million people yesterday who raised their voices and stood up for their rights. They are the true wonder of this world.
