{"id":177648,"date":"2014-08-28T04:00:50","date_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=177648"},"modified":"2014-08-28T04:00:50","modified_gmt":"2014-08-27T18:00:50","slug":"joint-region-marianas-marks-womens-equality-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/joint-region-marianas-marks-womens-equality-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Joint Region Marianas marks Women\u2019s Equality Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-177648 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/joint-region-marianas-marks-womens-equality-day\/140827-n-zi019-013\/'>140827-N-ZI019-013<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-177651'>\n\t\t\t\tJoint Region Marianas and Naval Facilities Engineering Command Marianas personnel listen to Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar, commander, JRM, give the keynote speech during a Women\u2019s Equality Day celebration at the command headquarters. (U.S. Navy\/Leah Eclavea)\n\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/joint-region-marianas-marks-womens-equality-day\/140827-n-zi019-045\/'>140827-N-ZI019-045<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-177652'>\n\t\t\t\tRear Adm. Bette Bolivar, commander, Joint Region Marianas, gives a speech during a JRM Women\u2019s Equality Day celebration at the command headquarters in Asan on Aug. 27. The celebration commemorates the milestone in history when women won the right to vote and the inclusion of the 19th Amendment into the U.S. Constitution. (U.S. Navy\/Leah Eclavea)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon '>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/joint-region-marianas-marks-womens-equality-day\/140827-n-zi019-072\/'>140827-N-ZI019-072<\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<figcaption class='wp-caption-text gallery-caption' id='gallery-1-177653'>\n\t\t\t\tRear Adm. Bette Bolivar, commander, Joint Region Marianas, socializes with JRM employees during a JRM Women\u2019s Equality Day celebration at the command headquarters. (U.S. Navy\/Leah Eclavea)\n\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<br \/>\n<strong>ASAN, Guam<\/strong>\u2014Joint Region Marianas employees gathered to celebrate Women\u2019s Equality Day at the command headquarters in Asan on last Aug. 27.<\/p>\n<p>Women\u2019s Equality Day celebrates the milestone in history when women won the right to vote on Aug. 26, 1920. It was on that day the 19th Amendment was adopted into the U.S. Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that Women\u2019s Equality Day is just as significant to our Navy as any war or any battle,\u201d said keynote speaker Rear Adm. Bette Bolivar, commander of JRM. \u201cThis day represents the ideal of female equality brought to focus after years of work and sacrifice. Women\u2019s Equality Day is a turning point that has made us a stronger Navy, a more globally engaged Navy and more importantly a Navy more fully reflective on values and best characteristics of our great nation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Bolivar spoke about the history of women suffrage and women\u2019s role in Navy history.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur U.S. Navy has in fact often been more progressive than civilian society in allowing women the opportunity to succeed,\u201d said Bolivar. \u201cIn 1908, women first entered the naval service more than a decade before they were granted the right to vote.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Antonette Vegafria, a paralegal specialist for JRM, attended the event and commented on how she felt about celebrating Women\u2019s Equality Day.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWomen\u2019s Equality Day gives women more encouragement to say that we are being supported,\u201d said Vegafria. \u201cWe are just like the men and it reminds us that we should not be afraid to compete, to do the things we would love to do knowing that we can do it.\u201d <strong>(PR)<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ASAN, Guam\u2014Joint Region Marianas employees gathered to celebrate Women\u2019s Equality Day at the command headquarters&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":177651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,497,498],"class_list":["post-177648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","tag-guam","tag-joint-region-marianas","tag-rear-adm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177648","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=177648"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177648\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/177651"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=177648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=177648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=177648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}