Jone's Women's History Blog

Getty Images / Cate Gillon On August 31, it will be ten years since the sudden death of Diana, Princess of Wales. Almost half the people in the world watched ... Read More

On August 26, 1920, Carrie Chapman Catt celebrated the winning of the vote for women with a speech including these words: "The vote is the emblem of your equality, women ... Read More

Finally, the long battle for the vote for women was won when a young legislator voted as his mother urged him to vote. This week, Americans honor this ... Read More

Her large hats and fiery personality brought her considerable public attention. She was the first Jewish woman to serve in the U.S. House of Representatives, and she helped institute Women's ... Read More

Alice Duer Miller wrote this parody in 1915, in response to arguments that women didn't really want to vote and probably weren't qualified to exercise the vote if they did ... Read More

Born August 19, 1883, Coco Chanel claimed 1893 as her birth year. She became a singer and a milliner, and eventually expanded into couture. Her fashions have been ... Read More

In the history of First Ladies, Rosalynn Carter was a more active part of her husband's administration than most other First Ladies before her. She traveled to Latin America ... Read More

When did women gain the right to vote and hold office? What country first granted women full equality in voting rights? What countries extended the vote to women only in ... Read More

Lucy Stone was an abolitionist and women's rights advocate whose accomplishments were many -- including being the first woman in Massachusetts to earn a college degree. She was born August ... Read More

Known as The Lady with the Lamp, Florence Nightingale responded to the high mortality and poor sanitation for soldiers in the Crimean War by practically inventing the modern profession of ... Read More

An often-asked question: who was the first woman in the United States to vote -- the first woman to cast a ballot -- the first female voter? Read about ... Read More

Katharine Lee Bates, a prolific poet in her day, was a professor of English and head of the English department at Wellesley, a pioneer college for women's education. But ... Read More

Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the Sun brought the life of a working-class African American family to Broadway, dealing not only universal human and family issues, but also with race, class, ... Read More

Anne Hathaway stars in the newest Jane Austen movie -- this one, Becoming Jane, about Austen herself. Jane Austen never married, but had several suitors, and the film ... Read More

Maureen Reagan, eldest child of US President Ronald Reagan and his wife, Jane Wyman, forged a political presence herself as an activist and political commentator. At a time when ... Read More

Marilyn Monroe Magazine Covers(c) 2004 Getty Images / Stringer Marilyn Monroe died 45 years ago, on August 5, 1962. Her death came after a long struggle with depression and addiction ... Read More

Born August 2, 1942, this niece of Chilean president Salvador Allende fled when her uncle was overthrown and assassinated. She'd been a journalist, and took up writing novels, including ... Read More