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Women's History Month

How did March come to be Women's History Month? Read more about the history of the celebration, then explore the many resources on women's history on this site.

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Mary Parker Follett

Sunday March 21, 2010
Mary Parker Follett, called the "prophet of management" by Peter Drucker, was a pioneer in management thinking. Her 1918 and 1924 books laid the groundwork for many later theorists who stressed human relations over the time-and-measurement approach of Taylor and the Gilbreths.

She wrote, in the 1920s: "It seems to me that whereas power usually means power-over, the power of some person or group over some other person or group, it is possible to develop the conception of power-with, a jointly developed power, a co-active, not a coercive power." The concept of "power-over" versus "power-with" is used by many feminists today.

Mother's Day History

Saturday March 20, 2010
It's not too soon to begin planning for Mother's Day activities that take into account the history of Mother's Day. In this series of articles, I've outlined the history of Mother's Day from ancient times to today, including the stories of separate attempts to establish Mother's Day by Julia Ward Howe and Anna Jarvis -- and others: Mother's Day History

Women's Rights and the Fourteenth Amendment

Friday March 19, 2010
When thinking about women's rights under the United States Constitution, many remember the Nineteenth Amendment, which gave women the right to vote. Fewer remember that the Fourteenth Amendment has been important as well to the story of women's legal rights in America:

Women Abolitionists

Thursday March 18, 2010
Lucretia Mott
Lucretia Mott from Eminent Women of the Age.
Modifications © 2006 Jone Lewis.
Women were quite active in the abolitionist movement. White women came out of their domestic sphere to work against the enslavement of others. Black women spoke from their experience, bringing their story to audiences to elicit empathy and action. More white women than black women were prominent in the abolitionist movement, for a variety of reasons. Read more:

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Abraham Lincoln, The Great Emancipator

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The US Occupation of Haiti

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