This TED Talk features activist Cecile Richards, recorded live at TED Women 2018.

Nearly a hundred years ago, almost today, most women in the United States finally won the right to vote.

Now, it would take decades more for women of color to earn that right.

And we've come a long way since, but I would argue not nearly far enough.

I think what women want today, not just only in the United States, but around the globe,

is to no longer be an afterthought.

We don't want to continue to try to look at the next hundred years

and be granted grudgingly small legal rights and accommodations.

We simply want true and full equality.

I think that women are tired of retrofitting ourselves

institutions and governments that were built by men for men,

and we would rather reshape the future on our own terms.

I believe what we need is a women's political revolution for full equality across race, across class,

across gender identity, across sexual orientation, and yes, across political labels.

Because I believe what binds us together as women is so much more profound than what keeps us

apart. And so I've given some thought about how to build this women's political revolution,

and that's what I want to talk to you about today.

So here's the good news is that one thing that hasn't changed

of the last century is women's resilience, And our commitment to build a better life,

not only for ourselves, but for generations to come.

Because I can't think of a single woman who wants her daughter

to have fewer rights or opportunities than she's had.

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