JOINT BASE BALAD, Iraq— Aug. 26, 1920, was a turning point in American history, as the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified, giving women the right to vote. Ninety years later, the Joint Base Balad Equal Opportunity Team, made up of both U.S. Army and Air Force personnel, took the opportunity to [...]

from the Lowcountry of South Carolina:
Claudette Humphrey, a resident of Cat Island and vice president of the board of the Arts Council of Beaufort County was honored on Sunday, March 28th for her leadership in the arts. Her honor was bestowed by the Hestelle Woodbury Women’s Missionary Society of the Grace Chapel African Methodist Episcopal [...]

As the theme for Women History Month 2010 is “Writing Women Back Into History,” the Science Club for Girls invites you to the celebration by contributing a “Letter to My Younger Self.”
SCFG hopes to aspire young girls and give them the self-confidence through these letters. These words of encouragement have continuously been a great source [...]

Celebrate Women’s History Month at the National Museum of Health and Medicine in Washington, D.C. 1 to 2 p.m. March 27 with a free one-act play about Elizabeth Blackwell, the first American woman doctor. Written by Harvard playwright N. Lynn Eckhert, M.D., this one actress play, performed by Linda Gray Kelley, tells the story of [...]

Portia Kellogg Gage (1813-1903), one of the organizers of the New Jersey Woman Suffrage Association in 1867, was probably one of the first of the early New Jersey suffragists to go to the polls in protest of her disenfranchisement. Her experience was reported in Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony’s newspaper, The Revolution, and [...]

Celebrating Women’s History Month in Crested Butte, Colorado
The Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum
Thursday, March 18, 2010~7 pm
The Crested Butte Mountain Heritage Museum, in collaboration with the Crested Butte Friends of the Library, will be hosting an event for Women’s History Month.  The theme this year is “Writing Women Back Into History.”  We will feature a presentation [...]

Last month, O Magazine contacted the NWHP for information about plans for National Women’s History Month 2010.  We contacted our network and within three days received over one hundred reports about programs and events that are already being planned throughout the country.  Included are events tied to the 90th anniversary of the woman suffrage movement [...]

[ March 23, 2009 1:00 am to March 31, 2009 1:00 am. ] Click here to participate in this write off.

The Bottom Line The 2009 NWHM’s theme concentrates on a topic that is very near and dear to my heart, Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet. Join my 2009 write-off.  

In 2008 ten Epinions’s reviewers joined me in celebrating the contributions of women in art as part of the National Women’s [...]

The Beginning
As recently as the 1970′s, women’s history was virtually an unknown topic in the K-12 curriculum or in general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County (California) Commission on the Status of Women initiated a “Women’s History Week” celebration for 1978. We chose the week of March [...]

PRESS RELEASE Women’s History Month
THE IMMIGRANT, RADICAL, AND NOTORIOUS
WOMEN OF WASHINGTON SQUARE
March 30
On Sunday, March 30, 2008, at 1 PM, Manhattan historian Joyce Gold will present a 2-hour walking tour through [...]