''Equality'' is a

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by American filmmaker,

Al Sutton Albert L. Sutton (December 7, 1933 – October 20, 2022) was an American pathologist. He retired from medicine in 1979 and became a real estate developer. Sutton died on October 20, 2022, at the age of 88. References External links * ...

, MD, a documentary under the genre of

human rights Human rights are Morality, moral principles or Social norm, normsJames Nickel, with assistance from Thomas Pogge, M.B.E. Smith, and Leif Wenar, 13 December 2013, Stanford Encyclopedia of PhilosophyHuman Rights Retrieved 14 August 2014 for ce ...

social issues A social issue is a problem that affects many people within a society. It is a group of common problems in present-day society and ones that many people strive to solve. It is often the consequence of factors extending beyond an individual's cont ...

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and

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. The film contains rare footage of the

Women's Strike for Equality The Women's Strike for Equality was a strike which took place in the United States on August 26, 1970. It celebrated the 50th anniversary of the passing of the Nineteenth Amendment, which effectively gave American women the right to vote.Gour ...

, the

gender equality Gender equality, also known as sexual equality or equality of the sexes, is the state of equal ease of access to resources and opportunities regardless of gender, including economic participation and decision-making; and the state of valuing d ...

protest of August 26, 1970, where more than fifty thousand women and men gathered in

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to show support for the

feminist movement The feminist movement (also known as the women's movement, or feminism) refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for Radical politics, radical and Liberalism, liberal reforms on women's issues created by the inequality b ...

and to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution which gave women the

right to vote Suffrage, political franchise, or simply franchise, is the right to vote in public, political elections and referendums (although the term is sometimes used for any right to vote). In some languages, and occasionally in English, the right to v ...

. It was organized by NOW, the National Organization for Women. While it depicts a positive energy and excitement of the crowds at the 1970 women's march and rally, the film makes the statement that in spite of various attempts to codify

equality Equality may refer to: Society * Political equality, in which all members of a society are of equal standing ** Consociationalism, in which an ethnically, religiously, or linguistically divided state functions by cooperation of each group's elite ...

, for example, the UN General Assembly Bill of Rights of 1979, the statistics related to gender inequality show that areas such as

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, earnings,

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and

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s still need effective change. This short film, EQUALITY, released in 2010, is a simple documentation of the women's strike that moved forward the United States in terms of gender equality, and perhaps impacted the world. Ravel's "

Pavane for a Dead Princess The ''pavane'' ( ; it, pavana, ''padovana''; german: Paduana) is a slow processional dance common in Europe during the 16th century (Renaissance). The pavane, the earliest-known music for which was published in Venice by Ottaviano Petrucci ...

" comprises the musical score.

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