A guide to the changing experience of women through history. From ancient times to today, women have adapted, survived and thrived. A brief timeline of women's roles in society.
See the women that made a difference in Cumberland Valley. Discover their contributions to the women's suffrage movement, and achievements in healthcare.
Maathai encouraged communities—and women in particular—to work in tandem with each other to bind soil by planting seedlings and trees, store rainwater, provide a supply of both food and wood, and get a small bit of monetary compensation for their efforts. This mission contributed to environment...
Known as one of the most famous deaf women in history, Helen Keller was born in Alabama in 1880. She was only 19 months old when an illness left her deaf and blind. At first, her family was unable to communicate with her, but thanks to the help of a teacher named Anne Sullivan, sh...
The main goal of the study is to connect Beard's ideas to social studies education and to consider why it is important to study her in this context. The central element of the study focuses on Beard's treatment of key social studies concepts such as democracy, citizenship, and history. ...
Before the 1970s, the topic of women in history was largely missing from general public consciousness. To address this situation, the Education Task Force on the Status of Women initiated a "Women's History Week" celebration in 1978 and chose the week of March 8 to coincide with International...
In 1848, at the Seneca Falls Convention, Elizabeth Cady Stanton presented a Declaration of Sentiments, in which she asserted women's right to vote. In 1920, the19th Amendment to the Constitution, which granted U.S. women the right to vote, was ratified. What happened during the 72 years ...
historians of women's pacifism have tended to focus less on the policy impact side of the story and more on the social movement story—that is, how it was that women in different eras were able to muster the ideological and material resources to create and sustain movements that addressed fo...
Finding women and gender in the sources: toward a historical anthropology of Ottoman TripoliComparative Studies of South Asia, Africa and the Middle East 25.2 (2005) 297-317 Since the late 1970s and early 1980s, women's studies and, more recently, alongside and interlaced with it, gender ...
We provide here an outline of a course on the role of women in the history of the natural sciences. All students and members of faculty were free to attend. We report our experiences in teaching the courses and some of the literature used. The conclusions we came to on researching this ...