Women philanthropists are driving the ever-growing number of advocacy and charitable organizations seeking to advance the well-being of women and girls. The Women’s Philanthropy Institute (WPI) at Indiana University-Purdue University has found consistently that women and men give differently. In almost every income bracket, women give more than men: baby-boomer and older women gave 89% […]
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Education of any type, much less higher education, just wasn’t available to women during most of our history. Clear proof that things have changed – a lot – is a new report confirming that black women are now the most educated group in the United States. According to the National Center for Education Statistics between
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“Tonight’s victory is not about one person. It belongs to generations of women and men who struggled and sacrificed and made this moment possible.” – Hillary Clinton Regardless of where you stand politically, you have to agree that history was made when the Associated Press called the Democratic nomination for Hillary Clinton, making her the
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History of Women As Philanthropists Women in America have always been agents of change even when they had few officially recognized rights. In Colonial times, women tackled a host of issues like moral reform, care of widows, children and the mentally ill, conditions for women prisoners, aid for soldiers, temperance, abolition of slavery, suffrage, libraries,
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History of Women, Marriage and Property Before the early 1800s, married women in the United States (indeed in most of the world) had no property rights and held it only through the forbearance of fathers or brothers. Under British common law a woman required protection of her lord (and master). She literally became one with
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History of Women in the Workplace Women have always worked hard to support themselves and their families, even though they rarely got paid for it. In British common law, unmarried women, including widows, were called “femmes soles,” meaning women alone. They had the legal right to live where they pleased and to support themselves in
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For most of history, women’s rights were synonymous with their duties: they had the right to take care of their husbands and homes, teach their children and promote moral virtues. Single women retained more control over their lives but a married woman’s very identity dissolved into her husband’s.
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History of Empowering Women through Education Before 1800, women had little opportunity for higher education. If a woman advanced her intellect, people thought, she would be “unsexed.” The way a woman set about building her self esteem and gaining self confidence was to cultivate the appropriate feminine arts like cooking, sewing, raising children and running
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Women Empowerment Is Transforming Politics Women had no formal role in revolutionary America because they were not full citizens. In keeping with 10,000 generations of tradition, women in 1700s America were represented in public affairs by their husbands or fathers. Like women today, however, they exercised their economic power, helping the Colonies by boycotting English
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It’s easy to feel frustrated when you hear the news: Women occupy too few offices in C-suites, earn too little and are underrepresented in politics. You’ve been in groups where the women gnash their teeth in outrage. Bummer, right?
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