The article discusses Women's History Month celebrated in March and offers information on some of lesser-known women including Anna Julia Cooper, Francis Kathleen Oldham Kelsey and Carmen Delgado Votaw. Cooper became a political activist and protester, Kelsey was a pharmacologist who worked with the...
First celebrated on March 19, 1911, International Women’s Day was inspired by National Women’s Day organized by the Socialist Party of America and observed on February 28, 1909, in New York City. That event honored the New York garment worker’s strike, in which thousands of women marched...
Women’s History Monthis celebrated in March in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia. It grew out of a week-long commemoration of women’s contributions to culture, history, and society designed around the week of International Women’s Day (March 8) starting in 1978 in Son...
This unit was made up of more than 855 women of color, mostly Black women who endured racism, sexism, grueling weather and conditions far beneath their male counterparts, only to become uncelebrated heroes after being deployed to England, then France in order to make sure the letters from ...
The Lantern Festival, also known as Shangyuan Festival, is celebrated on January 15th on the Chinese lunar calendar. It is the first full moon night in Chinese lunar year, symbolizing the coming back of the spring. The Lantern Festival is deemed as a good day for family get-together. Accor...
Keep reading to find out why Women’s History Month is celebrated in March, plus other facts you might not know about the month-long celebration. When is Women's History Month? Women’s History Month is celebrated annually in March. It started as Women’s Day, which was celebrated on Feb...
International Women’s Day (IWD), day (March 8) honouring the achievements of women and promoting women’s rights. A national holiday in numerous countries, it has been sponsored by the United Nations (UN) since 1975. International Women’s Day (IWD) gre
Every March, people in the United States celebrate the achievements and history of women as part of Women’s History Month.
They not only echo the design language of Breuer’s renowned furniture pieces but also have influenced the much-celebrated architectural glass details of Mies van der Rohe. How were Bauhaus's details executed, and how might they be translated into contemporary details today? + 15 Save this ...
Overall, the 1890s were to be celebrated: the journal had survived for 25 years and attracted high-quality submissions. These included work that foreshadowed the discovery of the electron and powered flight, and a four-page exclusive on X-rays. Lockyer’s influence grew and, although he lost...