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Radical Protests Propelled the Suffrage Movement. Here’s How a New Museum Captures That History

August 19, 2021
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

July 25, 2021
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

July 12, 2021
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 –

July 9, 2021
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

July 6, 2021
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

July 1, 2021
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

May 22, 2021
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

May 19, 2021
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

May 16, 2021
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…

The Columbus mayor called Ma’Khia Bryant a ‘young woman.’

April 22, 2021
The 2017 Georgetown study found that adults’ biased perceptions of Black girls result in their being suspended from school at higher rates than White girls, and being more likely than both Black boy…