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Ideas for celebrations and commemorations of Womens History Month, including curriculum guides, activity suggestions, and web sites honoring the month.
About Women's History Month
The story of how Women's History Month came to be established in March in the United States, from Jone Johnson Lewis, About Women's History.
Celebrating Women's History Month
A baker's dozen ideas for celebrating women's history month, from the About Women's History Guide.
Women's History A-Z
This course will take you on a tour of women's history from A to Z -- from Australia, Bella Abzug, and Agnodice, to Zenobia and Babe Didrikson Zaharias. Each issue will introduce a variety of women's history topics. The course sends one issue per day during March or one issue per week for the rest of the year, until the alphabet is complete.
Women's History - Desktop Wallpaper
For Women's History Month or any time of the year, you can easily use one of many pictures on this site as your desktop wallpaper.
Women's History Month: Special
March (October in Canada) is the month for recognizing women throughout history, through conflicts, creation and contributions. About Guides look at where women started, where they are now and where they're going.
50 Years of Women's Rights?
Amnesty International honors International Women's Day 1998 with this report on the continuing invisibility of women in human rights campaigns.
Activities for Women's History Month
From Celebrating Women's History: A Women's History Month Resource Book, these activities are suitable mostly for middle school and high school students in a classroom setting.
Australia's Women's History Month
A central site for information on celebrating Women's History Month in Australia. Includes events, a list of women to remember, links to more resources, and other related information.
Feminist Foremothers
A list of historical women, most pre-1800, many with links to their writing, from Sunshine for Women in honor of 1999 Women's History Month.
Amnesty International: National Plans of Action
Call on governments to act on the Beijing Platform for Action. Press release issued on International Women's Day, 1996.
Story of National Women's History Month
From the 1978 "Women's History Week" scheduled to include March 8, International Women's Day, to the efforts of the National Women's History Project to honor women's history for all of March.
Women's History Month at NIH
Includes 1998 Presidential Proclamation setting aside March as Women's History Month. Photo honors Ellen S. Baker, M.D., M.P.H., Astronaut.
Women of the Century
A women's history month special from DiscoverySchool.com, featuring 50 women of the 20th century. Includes a timeline and an interactive trivia game "Note the Quote."
World Book: Women's History: Quest for Equality
World Book's contribution to women's history month: articles on the history of the women's rights movement and on women who've had an impact on history.
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