This Women’s History Month, let’s all make a point of remembering our fore-mothers. We can draw inspiration from them to spur us forward to continue their hard work.
Many girls and women believe we have it made, that we can do it all. In my experience there is always a price, but usually a price worth paying. Look at old photos of suffragists and other pioneers in women’s rights. They often look alone, lonely, and scared. Yet, they soldiered on in the face of extreme opposition from men around them, and even from other women.
These amazing women activists and advocates:
- Were powerful orators changed society by winning the vote for blacks and then for women
- Took personal and financial risks when they challenged the establishment and the courts.
- Combined the best of masculine and feminine styles of speaking.
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Women 2.0 ProjectThe Women 2.0 media project aims to capture the voices of pivotal living women who made history, including Gloria Steinem (outspoken feminist editor of MS. Magazine), Phyllis Schlafly (who led the successful effort to defeat the Equal Rights Amendment), Condoleezza Rice (first woman Secretary of Defense and Black too!) and dozens more. View these fascinating interviews.
To even talk about contraception was illegal — and judged obscene — in the 1920s. Before 1972 it was illegal for single women to buy contraception. |
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