Women's Equality Day Through the Years 2011-2025

Women's Equality Day 2025 - Women of the Revolutionary Era

Join us on Tuesday, August 26, 2025 at 12:00 noon!

In the Public Garden in Boston near the Swan Boats!

 

Swan Boats.
Swans on the Swan Boats wearing their Votes For Women sashes on Women's Equality Day.

Did you know there is a feminist story about the Swan Boats?! A year after Robert Paget launched his wonderful Swan Boat in the Public Garden in 1878, he tragically died at the age of 42, leaving his wife, Julia, a widow with four children and no income. She decided to take over running the Swan Boats, but the Boston business community - run, of course, by white men - was not keen on women running companies and therefore required her to obtain signatures of support from local business owners for years, which she did - persevering for 30+ years! Fourth generation Pagets run the Swan Boats today!