Women's History Month

History written from a feminist perspective, emphasizing the role of women, or told from a woman's point of view.

How many women are currently serving on the Supreme Court?

Who was the first woman on the Supreme Court?

A form of feminism that seeks to understand how women's overlapping identities — including race, class, ethnicity, religion and sexual orientation — impact the way they experience oppression and discrimination.

A female artist with an entire museum dedicated to her work in New Mexico.

A self-described “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

Breast Cancer Awareness Month:

First woman on the moon:

With her book The Feminine Mystique (1963), this woman broke new ground by exploring the idea of women finding personal fulfillment outside of their traditional roles.

The United Kingdom’s first and thus far only female prime minister:

A government campaign aimed at recruiting female workers for the munitions industry, became perhaps the most iconic image of working women during the war.

Helped initiate the civil rights movement in the United States by refusing to give up her seat to a white man on a Montgomery, Alabama, city bus in 1955.

When were white women given the right to vote in the U.S.?

What amendment gives women the right to vote?

Members of women's organizations in the late-19th and early-20th centuries which advocated for the women’s right to vote in public elections

A peasant girl living in medieval France, who believed that God had chosen her to lead France to victory in its long-running war with England:

Born a slave, this woman became famous as a “conductor” on the Underground Railroad during the turbulent 1850s:

Social activist, writer, editor and lecturer, this woman helped create New York magazine in the 1960s, and in the 1970s she was among the founders of the National Women’s Political Caucus and the feminist Ms magazine.

Inspired by Mexican popular culture, this female artist employed a surrealist folk art style to explore questions of identity, postcolonialism, gender, class, and race in Mexican society: