Tomorrow, President Obama will invoke the Antiquities Act for the 23rd time to create the Belmont-Paul Women’s Equality National Monument, in DC. this monument breaks a tie with Clinton for the second-most uses of the Act, now only FDR's 28 uses outstrip Obama’s, and given the various requests from groups to create monuments in Bears Ears, the Grand Canyon, La Bajada Mesa, Oak Flats and others, it is almost certain that Obama will break FDR’s record and be the first president to use the act 30 times. the new monument honors the efforts of Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party, which was created in 1916 in order to give women the right to vote and equal rights with men. the first part of that goal was achieved in 1920 with the passage of the 19th Amendment, the second part of their goal, fully equal standing with men, has sadly not yet come to pass despite over a century of tireless efforts. the Belmont House, which was declared an historic Landmark in 1974, was named after Alva Belmont, a benefactor of the National Woman’s Party, and the monuments name will continue to honor both her and Alice Paul and their efforts on behalf of women in this country. the monument will be the second in DC after the President Lincoln Soldiers Home was designated in 2000 by then-President Clinton (the Washington Monument and other monuments in the city are officially classed as memorials, not monuments).