President Barack Obama will designate the Sewall-Belmont House, which has served as the headquarters for the National Woman's Party since 1929, as a national monument in Washington, D.C., Tuesday.
The new monument will be called the "Belmont-Paul Women's Equality National Monument" and is named after Alva Belmont and Alice Paul, two leaders in the women's suffrage movement. The president will travel to the site on Capitol Hill to deliver a speech Tuesday.
The designation coincides with Equal Pay Day, which aims to highlight pay disparities between men and women.
The date marks how far into the year women must work to "catch up" to men's earnings from last year.
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