National
Woman's History Project
March is National Woman's History Month. The theme for
the 2003 selection of honorees is "'Women Pioneering
the Future', highlighting women from history and from
today, who led and won struggles for equality and civil
rights, created and advanced educational and professional
opportunities, and made great contributions to the arts,
sciences, and humanistic causes..."
Women
in Sports
A wonderful site that clearly illuminates the accomplishments
of women in a variety of sports from dog sledding to
mountain climbing.
Documents
from the Women's Liberation Movement
Special Collections Library at Duke Universitye sponsors
this site in which... The materials in this on-line
archival collection document various aspects of the
Women's Liberation Movement in the United States, and
focus specifically on the radical origins of this movement
during the late 1960s and early 1970s..."
Women
of the Century - 100 Years of American Heroes
An excellent celebration of phenomenal women in the
fields of Art and Media, Politics and Government, Space
and Science,Sports and Exploration and those women who
are Activists and Reformers. Wonderful pictures and
biographies. Sponsoed by the Discovery Channel, women
are also studied in the context of the decade of their
accomplishment!
Gifts
of Speech - Women's Speeches from Around the World
Sweet Briar College offers a search by keyword or year,
or browse it's collection of speeches from 1874 to 2001.
Read the full text of Hillary Rodham Clinton's commencement
speech at Wellsley College on May 31, 1969.
Distinguished
Women of Past and Present
This site was put together by a woman interested in
filling the void of information about interesting, accomplished
women who are not necessarily mentioned in history books,
but who have contributed greatly to the growth and development
of our world..
