March 1, 2018
—Johanna Neuman
It is easy to forget just how controversial was this idea that women should have the vote and the fight for women’s voting rights lasted far beyond inking the Nineteenth Amendment into the U.S. Constitution.
March 30, 2017
—Margaret M. McGuinness
Including stories of nuns in discussions of “Trailblazing Women” in business and labor would clearly enrich our knowledge of this aspect of women’s history, as well as help us to understand the complexities of their lives.
March 22, 2017
—Linda C. Fentiman
Every woman has the right to expect confidentiality, compassion, and appropriate medical treatment from care providers without fear of legal reprisal, but that is not always a given.
March 7, 2017
—Tracy A. Thomas
Women’s History Month helps us give due attention to the missing pieces and pause in the dominant patriarchal view of history and law.
March 1, 2017
—Jill Norgren
The story behind Lavinia Goodell’s fight to become the first woman licensed to practice law in Wisconsin.
March 24, 2016
Let us not only celebrate the first woman to head an Obstetrics department, and the first woman at a five star restaurant, but all the women who came before them, whose knowledge is being threatened by professionalization and corporate industrial take-overs of both food and birth.
March 3, 2016
—Thomas A. Foster
A National Museum of Women’s History is necessary to correct the long-standing gender imbalance in our national narrative.
March 31, 2014
—Ellen Samuels A friend who cycles competitively just sent me a link to the new policy on transgender participants in the Eastern Collegiate Cycling Conference. It seems like a progressive… READ MORE