Women, Gender, and Sex

From a look back at the history of women’s marches to a group show highlighting African female artists, there’s a wide variety of artwork to celebrate

From Amelia Earhart to Michelle Obama, meet 100 women who defined the last century

These feminist editors, swimming suffragists, and renegade cooks reshaped the world.

From the female Paul Revere and a Hollywood starlet-turned-inventor to a political pioneer and the first female sports star, explore the legacies of these daring women.

On Indigenous Peoples' Day, learn about the inspiring Native women our history textbooks missed.

During Women's History Month, we're celebrating women who never received their due in history's official record book. Here, we honor 11 extraordinary Asian and Pacific Islander women.

Despite the strides we’ve made, women’s rights are still suppressed in the United States and around the world

These women paved the way for the next generation.

Asian women: We get the job done.

To celebrate the political progress of American women over the past century, let’s take a look at where it all began. Join HeinOnline as we outline four ways to research the women’s suffrage movement and the 19th Amendment.

This is a guest post by Maria Peña, a public relations strategist in the Library’s Office of Communications. Maya Angelou broke ground as a multifaceted author, poet, actress, recording artist and civil rights activist, while Adelina “Nina” Otero-Warren left an indelible mark in New Mexico’s suffrage movement. This year, both are among five trailblazing women …

One hundred years ago today, on Feb. 15, 1921, over 70 women’s organizations gathered in the U.S. Capitol rotunda for the unveiling of the statue “Portrait Monument to Lucretia Mott, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony.”

On International Women’s Day, we’re celebrating women activists around the world who have insisted on a better world and persisted in the face of adversity.

Join Our Virtual Commemoration As the home of the 19th Amendment, the National Archives invites you to join our virtual commemoration of the centennial of this landmark document. Throughout August with online programs for all ages, we will explore the complex story of the struggle for woman suffrage, leading up to and beyond the certification of the 19th Amendment on August 26, 1920. The campaign for woman suffrage was long, difficult, and sometimes dramatic, yet ratification did not ensure full enfranchisement.

Despite great strides made by the international women’s rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex slavery. They are refused access to education and political participation, and some are trapped in conflicts where rape is perpetrated as a weapon of war. Around the world, deaths related to pregnancy and childbirth are needlessly high, and women are prevented from making deeply personal choices in their private lives. Human Rights Watch is working toward the realization of women’s empowerment and gender equality—protecting the rights and improving the lives of women and girls on the ground.

Across the globe, many women and girls still face discrimination because of their sex and gender.

The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.

A renowned leader in women’s history education, the National Women's History Museum brings to life the countless untold stories of women throughout history and serves as a space for all to inspire, experience, collaborate, and amplify women’s impact.

This blog post was co-authored with Anne Connell.On January 21, 2017, the Women’s March on Washington, DC, drew a record-breaking public display of support for women’s rights and civil rights in a ma…

CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHTS FOUNDATION Bill of Rights in ActionSpring 2004 (20:2) Developments in Democracy BRIA 20:2 Home | How Women Won the Right to Vote | Have Women Achieved Equality? | Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau on Government Have Women, In 1920 American women won the right to vote, but they did not attain legal equality with men in other areas. Since 1920, women have won many other rights, but some people argue today that women have not yet achieved equality.

Global Fund for Women is one of the world’s leading foundations for gender equality. We stand up for the rights of women & girls by supporting gender equality movements.

2020 was set to be a historic year for women’s rights, with the Generation Equality forums planned for Paris and Mexico, the 25th anniversary of the Beijing Declaration, and the G7 summit in the United States with gender equality high on the agenda. None of us could have predicted the current global situation. Covid-19 has laid inequalities bare across the world. Domestic […]

Last week, members of the U.S. House of Representatives wore yellow roses to commemorate the passage of the 19th Amendment in the lower chamber on May 21, 1919.

In the fall of 2019, I toured the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC. Up the grand staircase off the rotunda and just outside of the famous Presidential Portrait Gallery hangs an oil-on-canvas composition featuring four of our nation’s most accomplished women. The portrait, entitled The Four Justices, showcases four women who broke the glass ceiling in America’s highest court—Supreme Court Justices Sandra Day O’Connor, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Sonia Sotomayor, and Elena Kagan. In the years since artist Nelson Shanks painted this monumental portrait, we have lost one of these trailblazers, and gained another. After 27 years on the bench, Justice Ginsburg died September 18, 2020 at the age of 87. Justice Amy Coney Barrett was sworn in just over a month later to fill the vacancy left by Justice Ginsburg’s passing, making her the fifth woman to serve on the Supreme Court. In the spirit of Women’s History Month, we at the Cracchiolo Law Library wish to celebrate some of the groundbreaking accomplishments of these five women and guide you to additional resources to conduct your own further research.

Did you know that a woman lawyer came up with the idea for Public Defenders offices? I, for one, did not. As a former public defender, I was pretty floored. Her name was Clara Shortridge Foltz. About 70 years before Gideon v. Wainwright, Foltz was an early advocate for a system in which every defendant had the right to an attorney. That trailblazing note aside, she was also the first woman admitted to the California Bar, the first woman admitted to law school in California (after she sued), the first woman Los Angeles Deputy District Attorney AND the creator of the state’s prisoner parole system

During the month of March, we will share a series of research tips related to the history of women’s rights in the US and internationally, and how to do research on these topics. As you all know, last year was the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment. To commemorate the event, various government agencies, cultural institutions, professional organizations, and universities gathered relevant current and historical information. We invite you to take a look at our own Antiracist and Social Justice Resources which includes a women's rights section with primary sources, government information, pertinent articles and sources, as well as book and podcast recommendations.

In Tarana Burke’s book Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement, she shares intimate stories about people and events that compelled her to found the ‘me too.’ Movement and the Just BE Inc. organization in 2006. “The story of how empathy for others – without which the work of ‘me too’ doesn’t exist – starts with empathy for that dark place of shame where we keep our stories, and where I kept mine.” Like the majority of historical events involving people of color and underrepresented groups, depending on the community you come from, the history of what is now commonly known as the Me Too Movement may have been missing a few critical details. In her book, Burke describes her initial fear of being erased and her feelings of distress at the prospect of marginalization of the experiences of people of color when the movement she founded went viral after it was turned into #MeToo by Alyssa Milano in 2017. Burke wrote, “Other than these women being survivors of sexual violence, none of what was happening in Hollywood felt related to the work I had been entrenched in within my own community for so many years.”

Happy Women’s History Month! Women’s History month takes place every March, to coincide with March 8, International Women’s Day. In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County Commission on the Status of Women, planned and executed a ‘Women’s History Week’. It was only a couple years later, in 1980, when President Jimmy Carter issued the first Presidential Proclamation declaring the Week of March 8th as National Women’s Week.