Indiana 2025 Regular Session

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2	2	Introduced Version
3	3	HOUSE
4	4	RESOLUTION No. ___
5	5	Introduced by: Boy, Garcia Wilburn, Burton, Moed, Pfaff,
6	6	Olthoff, Hamilton, GiaQuinta, Dant Chesser, Heaton,
7	7	Ledbetter, Harris, Bartlett, Clere, Gore, Pryor, Porter, Smith V,
8	8	Summers, Andrade, Pack, Shackleford, Bauer M, Klinker,
9	9	Hatcher, Pierce M, Campbell, Errington, Genda, Baird, Cash
10	10	____________________________________
11	11	1 A HOUSE RESOLUTION recognizing International
12	12	2 Women's Day and recognizing the essential role of women in
13	13	3 history during Women's History Month.
14	14	4 Whereas, The first International Women's Day gathering was
15	15	5 held in 1911 and was supported by over a million people in
16	16	6 Austria, Denmark, Germany, and Switzerland after many years
17	17	7 of campaigns for women's equality;
18	18	8 Whereas, The Nineteenth Amendment to the United States
19	19	9 Constitution was passed by Congress on June 4, 1919, and
20	20	10 ratification by the states was completed on August 18, 1920, yet
21	21	11 the United States Supreme Court decision in Leser v. Garnett
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24	24	1 on February 27, 1922, was needed to ensure that women could
25	25	2 vote throughout the country;
26	26	3 Whereas, On March 25, 1911, the tragic Triangle shirtwaist
27	27	4 factory fire in New York City took the lives of more than 120
28	28	5 working women, most of them immigrants. This tragedy drew
29	29	6 significant attention to working conditions and labor legislation
30	30	7 in the United States that became a focus of subsequent
31	31	8 International Women's Day events;
32	32	9 Whereas, In 2023, women working full-time year-round
33	33	10 made 82.7 cents per dollar earned by men (a wage gap of 17.3
34	34	11 percent), a significant worsening of the earnings ratio
35	35	12 compared to 84.0 cents per dollar in 2022 (a wage gap of 16.0
36	36	13 percent), according to the Institute for Women's Policy
37	37	14 Research (IWPR);
38	38	15 Whereas, The IWPR found that although both women's and
39	39	16 men's typical earnings increased in 2023, women's increased
40	40	17 less than men's. Adjusted for inflation, the earnings of a typical
41	41	18 full-time year-round working woman increased by 1.5 percent
42	42	19 in 2023, compared to a 3.0 percent annual increase for a
43	43	20 typical man;
44	44	21 Whereas, If progress continues at the same rate it has during
45	45	22 the last two decades, it will take until 2088 for women workers
46	46	23 to achieve pay equity with men, according to the IWPR. Policy
47	47	24 changes are necessary to ensure that women and their families
48	48	25 experience this equity within their lifetimes;
49	49	26 Whereas, American women were leaders in securing their
50	50	27 own rights of suffrage and equal opportunity, but were also
51	51	28 leaders in the abolitionist movement, the emancipation
52	52	29 movement, the industrial labor movement, the civil rights
53	53	30 movement, and the peace movement, helping to create a fairer
54	54	31 and more just society for all;
55	55	32 Whereas, International Women's Day is a global day
56	56	33 celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political
57	57	34 achievements of women. The day also marks a call to action for
58	58	35 accelerating gender parity. The theme of International Women's
59	59	36 Day for 2025 is "Accelerate Action" and many notable women
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62	62	1 have exemplified this;
63	63	2 Whereas, Naomi Bowman Talbert Anderson, born in
64	64	3 Michigan City, Indiana, in 1843, moved to Chicago to become
65	65	4 a temperance worker. She wrote articles that were published in
66	66	5 newspapers across the country and spoke at rallies for women's
67	67	6 rights at a time when women were rarely allowed to speak in
68	68	7 public;
69	69	8 Whereas, Grace Hopper, one of the first women to earn a
70	70	9 Ph.D. in mathematics from Yale University, was a United States
71	71	10 Navy rear admiral and pioneer in computer programming. Her
72	72	11 visionary work on early computer systems led to the creation of
73	73	12 COBOL, a programming language that revolutionized business
74	74	13 operations worldwide;
75	75	14 Whereas, Amelia Earhart was the first woman aviator to fly
76	76	15 nonstop, solo across the Atlantic Ocean and attempted to
77	77	16 become the first woman to circumnavigate the globe by flight;
78	78	17 Whereas, Bessie Coleman, in 1921, was the first Black
79	79	18 person and first Native American to obtain an international
80	80	19 pilot license, which was earned in France. However, she was
81	81	20 limited to work as a stunt pilot in the United States. She aspired
82	82	21 to open a flight school for Black pilots, but she tragically died
83	83	22 before achieving this goal. Many Black aviators, both men and
84	84	23 women, viewed her as an inspiration;
85	85	24 Whereas, Marie Curie, a pioneering physicist and chemist,
86	86	25 was instrumental in the discovery of two new radioactive
87	87	26 elements, radium and polonium, and she was the first woman
88	88	27 to win a Nobel Prize;
89	89	28 Whereas, Rosa Parks, a civil rights activist, challenged the
90	90	29 racial segregation that existed in many parts of the United
91	91	30 States, and she became an international icon of resistance to
92	92	31 racial discrimination;
93	93	32 Whereas, Dr. Alice Hamilton, the first woman appointed to
94	94	33 the Harvard faculty in 1919, pioneered research in toxicology,
95	95	34 raising awareness of industrial hazards in the workplace;
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98	98	1 Whereas, Dr. Mae Jemison graduated from Stanford
99	99	2 University with a chemical engineering degree and from
100	100	3 Cornell University with a medical degree before joining NASA
101	101	4 in pursuit of becoming an astronaut. She was the first Black
102	102	5 woman in space as a mission specialist on the Space Shuttle
103	103	6 Endeavor in 1992;
104	104	7 Whereas, Dorothy Jurney, a journalist at Michigan City
105	105	8 News and later the women's editor at the Miami Herald,
106	106	9 Detroit Free Press, and Philadelphia Inquirer, shifted the focus
107	107	10 of women's pages from society news to serious issues, such as
108	108	11 the women's movement, female political candidates, and women
109	109	12 in the workplace;
110	110	13 Whereas, Carrie Chapman Catt was an American women's
111	111	14 suffrage leader who served as president of the National
112	112	15 American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA) which
113	113	16 maintained a moderate approach to securing women's right to
114	114	17 vote. Prominent women's suffrage leader Alice Paul broke
115	115	18 away from NAWSA and founded the National Woman's Party
116	116	19 (NWP), which focused on securing a federal amendment to the
117	117	20 United States Constitution and relied on more immediate
118	118	21 actions including the organization of parades and pickets of the
119	119	22 White House;
120	120	23 Whereas, Recognizing and celebrating the accomplishments
121	121	24 of women throughout history may inspire future generations to
122	122	25 work toward equality for all Hoosiers; and
123	123	26 Whereas, International Women's Day is increasingly
124	124	27 recognized as a global event that belongs to all groups
125	125	28 collectively. It is not limited to any specific country, group, or
126	126	29 organization and is observed and celebrated annually on
127	127	30 March 8: Therefore,
128	128	31 Be it resolved by the House of Representatives of the
129	129	32 General Assembly of the State of Indiana:
130	130	33 SECTION 1. That the Indiana House of Representatives
131	131	34 recognizes the achievements of these and many other
132	132	35 remarkable and tenacious women who have led the way for
133	133	36 others.
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136	136	1 SECTION 2. That the Indiana House of Representatives
137	137	2 celebrates the social, economic, cultural, and political
138	138	3 achievements of women, because visibility and awareness help
139	139	4 drive positive change for women.
140	140	5 SECTION 3. That the Indiana House of Representatives
141	141	6 recognizes and honors the women in the United States and in
142	142	7 other countries who have fought, and continue to struggle for,
143	143	8 gender equality and women's rights.
144	144	9 SECTION 4. That the Indiana House of Representatives
145	145	10 thanks the members of the Indiana Commission for Women and
146	146	11 the individual Commissions for Women serving in several
147	147	12 cities in Indiana for their efforts in support of women.
148	148	13 SECTION 5. That the Indiana House of Representatives
149	149	14 encourages women to run for elected office and apply to serve
150	150	15 on boards and commissions.
151	151	16 SECTION 6. That the Indiana House of Representatives
152	152	17 recognizes the month of March as Women's History Month and
153	153	18 March 8, 2025, as International Women's Day.
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