Woman of the Month: Quotes

Check out these quotations of Gloria Steinem:
http://womenshistory.about.com/cs/quotes/a/qu_g_steinem.htm
http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/g/gloria_steinem.html

Ban Ki-Moon voices intolerance for violence against women

United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon spoke out against violence towards women in his continuing global campaign urging political leaders to change the attitudes of abusers:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYV3Iu0f13kZDBtyzyo_j66Ph_1AD96O8KD00.

March Update

March is National Women's History Month! Celebrate by visiting http://www.freewebs.com/uswhp/holidays.htm.

Our woman of the month for March is feminist icon and women's rights activist and journalist Gloria Steinem. Born on March 25, 1935, she is the founding editor of Ms. Magazine and helped found National Women's Political Caucus, the Women's Action Alliance, the Coalition of Labor Union Women, Choice USA, and the Women's Media Center.

AALBC Webpage

Check out this Alice Walker page from the website African American Literature Book Club (AALBC): http://aalbc.com/authors/alice.htm

Alice Walker links and bio

This webpage about Alice Walker includes a biography and tons of internet links: http://www.luminarium.org/contemporary/alicew/

First woman to swim across Atlantic

Read all about 56-year-old Jennifer Figge who becames the first woman to swim across the Atlantic Ocean! She left the Cape Verde Islands off Africa on January 12 and arrived at Chacachacare Island, in Trinidad on February 5, "swimming about 2,100 miles (3,380 kilometers)." http://sports.yahoo.com/top/news?slug=ap-atlanticswim020809&prov=yhoo&type=lgns

Obama

Best wishes to our newly inaugurated President Barack Obama! View his positions on women's rights here: http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/women/.

Official Website

Visit the Official Website of Amelia Earhart! http://www.ameliaearhart.com/

Amelia Earhart Museum

Check out the website for the Amelia Earhart Birthplace Museum in Atchison, Kansas: http://www.ameliaearhartmuseum.org/.

Timeline from The Ninety-Nines

Check out an Amelia Earhart timeline from The Ninety-Nines International Organization of Women Pilots, created "in 1929 by 99 licensed women pilots for the mutual support and advancement of aviation." http://www.ninety-nines.org/earhart.html

Women In Film & Television International

Check this out! Women In Film & Television International (WIFTI) is "a global network" comprised of about 37 chapters of the organization Women In Film. With over 10,000 members, WIFTI is "dedicated to advancing professional development and achievement for women working in all areas of film, video, and other screen-based media." http://www.wifti.org/

Yahoo!'s Top 10 Women of 2008

Yahoo! Buzz highlighted 10 women for their 2008 Year in Review section. Check it out! http://buzz.yahoo.com/yearinreview2008/women/

Women of the Year from Glamour Magazine

Check out Glamour Magazine's 2008 Women of the Year Awards!: http://www.glamour.com/women-of-the-year.

NOW E-cards

The National Organization for Women offers free e-cards you can send today!: http://www.now.org/sendcard/.

Tuesday--Women's Equality Day

Celebrate equal rights! Get ready for Women's Equality Day, which is right around the corner on Tuesday, August 26. Check out http://womenshistory.about.com/od/wed/Womens_Equality_Day_August_26.htm and http://www.nwhp.org/resourcecenter/equalityday.php for more information.

Write Across the World Magazine

One project we did this year was an online collaboration with girls in Pakistan. The result of this email exchange was a magazine, written and edited by girls in the U.S. and Pakistan. Check it out!

http://www.freewebs.com/uswhp/writeacrosstheworld.htm

UN Women's Rights Resource

Check out this fabulous collection of material on women's rights, put together by the United Nations for International Women's Day!

http://www.un.org/cyberschoolbus/womensday/index.asp

First Ladies

Check out the National First Ladies Library at http://www.firstladies.org/!

The Women's History Project

Birthdays and more

Today is both Amelia Earheart's and Bella Abzug's birthdays!

Again, our apologies for not regularly posting; we have been incredibly busy! You can catch up on any women's history tidbits from July that we neglected at http://www.nwhp.org/news/july.php.

The Women's History Project

"American Women" from LOC

Check out this link about U.S. women from the Library of Congress' American Memory: http://memory.loc.gov/ammem/awhhtml/index.html.

The Women's History Project