Who has been honored this month with esteemed women such as Linda Chavez-Thompson, Augusta Thomas, Elizabeth Shuler, Arlene Holt Baker, and Nancy Wohlforth? My mom! I know it may sound a bit cliché, but for Women’s History Month, I would like to recognize my mother, Jane Broendel. As the first female officer for the National [...]
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Labor Union Women Making History
Posted in Sexism, Women and Work, Women's History Month, tagged Arlene Holt Baker, Breaking the Glass Ceiling Award, CLUW, Coalition of Labor Union Women, Elizabeth Shuler, Jane Broendel, labor movement, labor union women, Linda Chavez-Thompson, NALC, Nancy Wohlforth, National Association of Letter Carriers, National Women's History Month, NWHM, Sexism, unions, women in the labor movement, Women's History Month on March 30, 2010, | 1 Comment »
Holla Back D.C.!
Posted in Sexual Harassment, The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged Alice Reighly, Anti-Flirt Club, Back Off: How to Confront and Stop Sexual Harassment and Harassers, Defend Yourself, Hassle Free Zone Campaign, Holla Back DC!, Holly Kearl, INCITE DC, Lauren Taylor, Marty Langelan, National Women's History Month, NWHM, self-defense, Sexual Harassment, Stop Street Harassment, Stop Street Harassment: Making Public Places Safe and Welcoming for Women, street harassment, Washington D.C., Women's History Month on March 29, 2010, | 3 Comments »
While street harassment is a big issue these days, women have been fighting sexual harassment in Washington, D.C., public spaces for more than 80 years. As we celebrate and acknowledge Women’s History Month, we want to pay homage to the D.C. women who taught us what we know about street harassment and inspired us to [...]
Your Words, Your History: A Filmmaker’s Perspective
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged documentary film, Doris Kearns Goodwin, filmmaker, Louise Vance, madeleine albright, National Women's History Month, NWHM, PBS, Seneca Falls, Seneca Falls convention, Seneca Falls film, Seneca Falls Women's Rights Convention, The Daily Show, women in media, Women's History Month, women's media representation, Women's Rights Convention, Writing Women Back into History on March 25, 2010, | 2 Comments »
A few years ago I wrote a script for an episode of Oregon Public Broadcasting’s television series, Bridging World History. The script centered on “family and household” as aspects of world history — a relatively new field of study. During my research process, I learned something very important. When historians glance backwards, they scour the [...]
Writing Deaf Women Back into History
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged deaf women, female pilot, Harvard College Observatory, Harvard Standard, hearing impairment, Henrietta Swan Leavitt, Laura Redden Searing, National Women's History Month, Nellie Zabel Willhite, NWHM, shero, Women's History Month on March 18, 2010, | 5 Comments »
I was driven and ambitious as a young girl. I had big dreams; I wanted to be a journalist or an attorney. Clair Huxtable, Geraldine Ferraro, “Career Barbie,” and even Madonna had promised me I could be whatever I wanted to be when I grew up. However, I was born with a hearing impairment. I [...]
You’ve Heard of Schindler, but What about Sendler?
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, Holocaust, Human Rights, In the Name of Their Mothers, International Women's Day, Irena Sendler, Irena Sendler Project, IWD, Life in a Jar, National Women's History Month, Nobel Peace Prize, The Story of Irena Sendler, video, Women's History Month, Women's History Month video on March 8, 2010, | 1 Comment »
People exhibited the absolute worst and best aspects of human nature during the Holocaust: unfathomable brutality, unwavering bravery. Irena Sendler is one woman who displayed the latter. Born in 1910, Sendler was a 29-year-old Polish social worker when the Nazis invaded her country. She lived in Warsaw, and when Nazis forced Jews in the area [...]
Don’t Miss Half the Sky Live
Posted in The AAUW Community, Women's History Month, tagged #BlogforIWD, #wmnhist, AAUW, AAUW members, Blog for IWD, CARE, Half the Sky, Half the Sky Live, International Women's Day, IWD, Marisa Tomei, National Women's History Month, Nicholas Kristof, Sheryl WuDunn, Woineshet, Women's History Month on March 4, 2010, | 1 Comment »
This past Christmas, my sister — with just a bit of hinting on my part — gave me the best-selling book, Half the Sky, by Pulitzer-prize winning journalists Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn. And while I am passionate about women’s development (and was the one who blatantly asked for the book), with work, life, visitors, [...]
Candace Wheeler, 1827-1923: Entrepreneur, Artist, and Founder of American Interior Design
Posted in Women's History Month, tagged #wmnhist, Candace Wheeler, entrepreneur, interior design, Louis Comfort Tiffany, National Women's History Month, Society of Decorative Arts, Tiffany & Wheeler, Women's Building, Women's History Month on March 2, 2010, | 2 Comments »
When you set out to break through barriers, the secret to your success just might be that you don’t see the barriers in the first place. Candace Thurber Wheeler founded the Society of Decorative Arts in New York in 1877 to help the thousands of women who were left indigent at the end of the [...]
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