EMPOWERED & INFORMED
Welcome to the Women's Resource Center Blog: Empowered & Informed. This space to trade ideas and generate conversation about empowering women.
Speak up and Share Your Voice!
TWO PERFORMANCES THIS WEEK OF EVE ENSLER'S
GROUNDBREAKING PLAY...
"THE VAGINA MONOLOUGES"
THIS WEEK!!
Thursday, March 25th and Saturday, March 27th
presented by
Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers & The Gay-Straight Alliance
Both Nights' Performances: 7PM
Tickets Available at the Door ONLY for $5
No advance tickets sales
Proceeds to benefit Women's Resource Center
with 10% donated to the women and girls of the Democratic Republic of the Congo
Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers and Gay-Straight Alliance will be presenting to performances of a dramatic reading of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" on Thursday, March 25th and Saturday, March 27th at Lenoir-Rhyne Belk Centrum.
General admission tickets will be available at the door for $5.
Women's Resource Center will benefit from both performances with 10% of the proceeds going to help the women of the Democratic Republic of the Congo. For more information on V-Day at:
http://www.vday.org/. To learn more about the WRC benefit performances call the center 828-322-6333.
ALICE PAUL PLAYED A KEY ROLE IN WOMEN'S RIGHTS MOVEMENT A CENTURY AGO
Alice Paul (1885-1977) dedicated her entire life to securing equal rights for all women. While other suffragettes retired after the enactment of the 19th amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote, Alice continued introducing The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) stating, "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction". The ERA was introduced to every Congress from 1923 until it was passed in 1972. When it was rewritten in 1943, it was named the Alice Paul Amendment and the new language read, "Equality of rights under the law will not be denied or abridged by the United States ir any other state on account of sex." Learn more about Alice Paul and other notable women in history at the National Women's History Project website:
http://www.nwhp.org/
Lenoir-Rhyne Playmakers and Gay-Straight Alliance will be presenting to performances of a dramatic reading of Eve Ensler's "The Vagina Monologues" on Thursday, March 25th and Saturday, March 27th at Lenoir-Rhyne Belk Centrum. General admission tickets will be available at the door for $5. 
Alice Paul (1885-1977) dedicated her entire life to securing equal rights for all women. While other suffragettes retired after the enactment of the 19th amendment in 1920 giving women the right to vote, Alice continued introducing The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) stating, "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction". The ERA was introduced to every Congress from 1923 until it was passed in 1972. When it was rewritten in 1943, it was named the Alice Paul Amendment and the new language read, "Equality of rights under the law will not be denied or abridged by the United States ir any other state on account of sex." Learn more about Alice Paul and other notable women in history at the National Women's History Project website: http://www.nwhp.org/
