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The NOW Task Force on Equal Opportunity of Employment Created: Monday, June 28, 2010 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
The Task Force on Equal Opportunity of Employment was one of NOW's first important task forces. The founders of NOW fought tirelessly for equal opportunity of employment.
Gloria Steinem Created: Wednesday, December 02, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Biography of Gloria Steinem: learn about the life and background of feminist Gloria Steinem.
Emily Dickinson Books Created: Thursday, September 07, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Emily Dickinson, American poet.
Lydia Maria Child Quotes Created: Saturday, July 30, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Quotes by Lydia Maria Child - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Blanche of Castile Created: Tuesday, July 24, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
A profile of Blanche of Castile, ruler of France twice as regent for her son, Saint Louis.
Harriet Beecher Stowe Facts Created: Monday, February 05, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Find out the facts about Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin and one of the 19th century's best-selling novelists.
Eleanor Roosevelt - Wedding Portrait Created: Monday, May 22, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Photographs from Eleanor Roosevelt's early marriage: Eleanor Roosevelt in her wedding dress.
Women's Fashion from the Time of William the Conqueror Created: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Pictures of women's costume in medieval England.: william the conqueror typical clothing english costume noblewomen english woman
Julia Ward Howe - What Is Religion? - Parliament of the World's Religions - Columbian Exposition 1893 Created: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Julia Ward Howe spoke at the Parliament of the World's Religions at the 1893 Columbian Exposition, Chicago World's Fair.
Woman and the Republic - Anti-Suffrage Argument by Helen Kendrick Johnson Created: Thursday, May 19, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Woman and the Republic, by Helen Kendrick Johnson, 1897. Title Page and Table of Contents. A women's history etext.
About Sarah Helen Power Whitman Created: Tuesday, March 28, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Sarah Helen Power Whitman - poet and love interest of Edgar Allen Poe.
About Eleanor Roosevelt Created: Thursday, February 09, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Information on Eleanor Roosevelt - her life and work
Laura Ormiston Chant - Duty of God to Man - Women's History Created: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Laura Ormiston Chant's address to the 1893 Parliament of the World's Religions. Includes portrait of Chant.
Christabel Pankhurst Quotes Created: Thursday, August 18, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Quotes by Christabel Pankhurst - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Barbara Bodichon Created: Monday, September 26, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
A biography of Barbara Bodichon, artist and women's rights activist.
Helen Blackburn Created: Tuesday, February 27, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 08, 2013
Helen Blackburn was a women's suffrage worker in the British suffrage movement who donated her books for researchers into the movement's early years.
May 1 Created: Wednesday, April 25, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
May 1 - birthdates of notable women and other important events, plus quote for the day
August 1 Created: Thursday, July 26, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
August 1 - birthdates of notable women and other important events, plus quote for the day
Biographies of Famous Women Created: Friday, December 05, 2008 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Find biographies of notable women: famous women of history whose names begin with J
November 30 Created: Monday, September 04, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
November 30 - birthdates of notable women and other important events, plus quote for the day
Introduction - Mother Jones - Most Dangerous Woman in America Created: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Introduction to Elliott Gorn's biography of Mother Jones
Mother Jones: Most Dangerous Woman in America Created: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Review of the 2001 biography of Mother Jones by Elliott Gorn, and a good introduction to the latest scholarship on her life.
Mother Jones Quotes Created: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Quotes by Mother Jones - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Elizabeth Gurley Flynn Biography Created: Monday, August 15, 2005 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
A biography of Elizabeth Gurley Flynn, a socialist and feminist who helped organize the ACLU and the Lawrence, Massachusetts, strike.
1912 Lawrence Textile Strike Created: Monday, January 12, 2009 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Story of the 1912 Lawrence Textile Strike, sometimes called the Bread and Roses strike, in Lawrence, Massachusetts, key to an IWW victory and winning better wages and working conditions for women.
Mother Jones Created: Tuesday, August 01, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
A biography of Mother Jones
Mary Kenney O'Sullivan Created: Monday, May 22, 2006 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Information on Mary Kenney O'Sullivan, labor organizer and reformer.
Maud O'Farrell Swartz Created: Wednesday, March 21, 2007 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
A profile of labor leader Maud Swartz, friend of Eleanor Roosevelt.
Diane von Furstenberg Quotes Created: Thursday, October 04, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Quotations from Diane von Furstenberg, successful business executive and fashion icon most famous for her 1970s wearable wrap dress.
Letty M. Russell Quotes Created: Sunday, April 08, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Quotes by Letty M. Russell - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Susan Glaspell Quotes Created: Thursday, April 05, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Quotes by Susan Glaspell - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.
Lynn Andrews Quotes Created: Sunday, March 11, 2012 Updated: Wednesday, May 01, 2013
Quotes by Lynn Andrews - part of an extensive collection of quotations by notable women.