Why I will join the "Women's March on Washington" on January 21st, 2017

I have never thought of myself as a political activist. It is true that growing up in the Vietnam war era I signed up against the war as millions of American did at that time and I protested against it. However, as I grew up beyond that era, I thought of myself as a busy, progressive, professional woman who strangled to integrate work with family life. I was too busy raising two children and building a career to become an activist around the issues that mattered to me the most.

Yet, now, being a 62-year-old woman who is looking to her grandchildren more than to her career, I have found myself really anxious about the future of my children and their children. Providing women with the same liberties as men, is the foundation on which the new administration could "Make America Great". However, the rhetoric does not much the actions taken early in the transition of the new administration, or the actions this President-elect intends to take.

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