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Maryland Women’s Heritage Center:Girl Scouts of Central Maryland’s 5th Annual Women’s Leadership Forum

The Maryland Women’s Heritage Center is a rich museum that embodies permanent and changing exhibits about renowned Maryland women. It’s also a sophisticated center for  recognizing ‘unsung heroines’, a resource and reference library, a women’s history archive, a place where women’s seminars can be held and the perfect place to purchase literature and unique gifts by [...]

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Our Official Quiz for Women’s History Month

Reading literature about women’s contributions to history is one way to celebrate this wonderful month but an inclusive way ( with friends, mothers, daughters, students, and historians) to celebrate is by taking this quiz.
It was designed to enhance people’s understanding of women’s history and as a fun tool for teachers to use for their students. [...]

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Women’s History Month:Facebook Page That Highlights Female Troops Overseas

 Women’s History Month is a special month for women across the United States. It’s the best time to celebrate women’s contributions towards history and to commemorate everything they have done to accelerate equality for all.
There’s a variation of ways to celebrate this special month such as: attending women leadership events, purchasing products from NWHP’s store, reading [...]

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Kid Lit Celebrates Women’s History Month

Kid Lit decided to commemorate Women’s History Month by creating a special blog that specializes in childrens and young adults literature for women. This blog is also in partnership with The Fourth Musketeer, a blog about books that endorse notable women in history.  
The “Kidlitosphere community ( blogs about kids books) has never had an organized month-long event honoring women’s [...]

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Creative Way to Celebrate Women’s History Month

Ashley Chasteen, a student at Monroe High School in Ohio, decided to celebrate Women’s History Month in a unique way. In her advanced internet class she created a banner for her high school’s website that celebrates the lives of Abagail Adams, Laura Wilder, Harriet Tubman, Harriet Beecher-Stowe, Madam CJ Walker, Luisa May Alcot, and Bessie [...]

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NWHP Sponsors Salute to Blackwomen Conference: MARCH 26,2011– Los Angelas, California

LOS ANGELES) The BBA in collaboration with the National Women’s History Project will present its 2011 Salute to Black Women Business Conference & Awards Luncheon on Saturday, March 26, 2011 at the Sheraton Gateway LAX, in Los Angeles, California in recognition of National Women’s History Month.
 The mission of the National Women’s History Project (NWHP) is to [...]

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Eleanor Roosevelt and the Labor Movement: TONIGHT at 7 P.M

7:00 on Friday, March 11, 2011
The National Women’s History Project is excited to announce that we will be sponsoring a presentation and booksigning by acclaimed author, Brigid O’Farrell, who will discuss her  recently published, She Was One of Us, which documents Eleanor Roosevelt’s involvement in the labor movement.
 Given the attack on today’s labor movement, this [...]

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2nd Annual National Women in Surgery Career Symposium

 This symposium will promote both personal and professional growth for women in Surgery.  It is designed to promote and foster mentorship as well as a peer network for current and future women in Surgery.  It will also provide a forum to discuss contemporary issues and opportunities for women who have chosen or may choose a [...]

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INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY

Jeannette Rankin
Chautauqua Performance
by Mary Jane Bradbury
March 6, 2011   1 PM
AFT New Mexico 
530 Jefferson NE
Albuquerque, NM
Suggested Donation $5
Come early for the Silent Auction
Refreshments will be served
Jeannette was the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress at age 36. Jeannette was a pacifist and voted against World War I and World War II in Congress. After leaving [...]

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TEXAS WOMEN’S HISTORY on Public Radio KUT

The Ruthe Winegarten Foundation for Texas Women’s History is partnering with KUT public radio in Austin to present a daily “moment” in Texas women’s history.  Each day in March 2011, KUT will broadcast a 90-second story about such women as Bessie Coleman, Angelina, Oveta Culp Hobby, and Jovita Idar. 
The KUT website will provide visuals, scripts, [...]

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