Frances Perkins, 1911
by Heather Cox Richardson in Letters from an American
On March 25, 1911, Frances Perkins was visiting with a friend who lived near Washington Square in New York City when they heard fire engi…
SUE FORD and Village Marimba
Summer 2021 Village Marimba Classes for both youths and adults
WOMEN IN MUSIC
Women in Music is the industry’s leading non-profit working to advance the awareness, equality, diversity, heritage, opportunities, and cultural aspects of women i…
Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History
By Alli Hartley-Kong SMITHSONIANMAG.COM OCTOBER 26, 2020
The first of the “silent sentinel” protests occurred on January 10, 1917.
Mary Simon is sworn in as Canada’s first Inuk Governor General
Mary Simon was officially sworn in as Canada’s 30th governor general and is the first Indigenous person to hold the position. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnFl0s_CspE
The New Woman Behind the Camera
At The Met Fifth Avenue JULY 2–OCTOBER 3, 2021
Exhibition Overview – Exhibitions are free with Museum admission.
United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program –
The National Women’s History Museum couldn’t be more excited to share the first five women selected for the United States Mint’s American Women Quarters™ Program:
Nikole Hannah-Jones declines UNC tenure offer, heads to Howard University
In an exclusive interview, Hannah-Jones reveals that she and fellow award-winning journalist Ta-Nehisi Coates will launch new Center for Democracy and Journalism at Washington, DC HBCU
Only person to win Nobel Prize in two different sciences
A leading figure in the history of sciences, Marie Curie was prohibited from higher education in her native Poland. Many years later, she became the first woman Nobel laureate. She remains the only…
She Is Chief Engineer Of All-Electric Ford F-150, Leading A Revolution
The chief engineer behind the revolutionary all-electric Ford F-150 arrived in America as a third grader knowing only letters A through H, which she learned during her plane ride from China. She spo…
Why are our cities built for 6ft-tall men? The female architects who fought back
Fed up living in a world designed by and for men, 80s design activists Matrix declared war on every urban obstacle in their way. And their impact is still being felt today
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala Makes History As WTO’s First African And Female Leader
Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, a former two-time Nigerian finance minister, was appointed Monday to the be the next director-general of the World Trade Organization. She is the first African and the…