Women's History Month

GRC Holman Library and local resources for Women's History Month

Topics in Women's History

There are so many topics to consider! Including:
  • Beauty Standards
  • Suffrage
  • African American women suffragists
  • Feminism
  • Womanism
  • The Temperance Movement
  • Boston Marriages
  • Birth Control
  • Cable Act
  • #MeToo Movement
  • Black Lives Matter Movement
  • Women's March
  • Planned Parenthood
  • #SayHerName Movement
  • Bathroom Access for Trans Women
  • Female Film Directors (esp. Oscar nominations/wins)
  • Front Line Combat Roles for Women
  • Trans Women in the Military
  • Violence Against Trans Women
  • Street Harassment / #YouOKSis
  • First, Second, and Third Wave Feminism
  • Equal Rights Amendment

Selected Events in Women's History

Consider analyzing one of these topics:
  • Women's Suffrage in the U.S.
  • Equal Rights Amendment (ERA)
  • Fourteenth Amendment
  • League of Women Voters
  • Married Women's Property Acts
  • National Organization for Women (NOW)
  • Sanitary Commission
  • Seneca Falls Convention
  • Civil Rights Act of 1964
  • Higher Education Act of 1972 and Title IX
  • Obamacare Contraceptive Mandate (2010)
  • Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009
  • U.S. Women's Soccer Wage Discrimination Complaint (2016)

Notable Women

Consider analyzing the life and work of one of these figures:
  • Ida B. Wells-Barnett
  • Janet Mock
  • Grace Lee Boggs
  • Wilma Mankiller
  • Gloria E. Anzaldúa
  • Aki Kurose
  • Diane Nash
  • Lucy Hicks Anderson
  • Maya Lin
  • Shirley Chisholm
  • Michi Nishiura Weglyn
  • Clara Barton
  • Josephine Baker
  • Jane Goodall
  • Marie Curie
  • Susan B. Anthony
  • Eleanor Roosevelt
  • Indira Gandhi
  • Mother Theresa
  • Dolores Huerta
  • Hillary Rodham Clinton
  • Lucretia Mott
  • Louise Lawrence
  • Elizabeth Stanton
  • Anne Hutchinson
  • Carmen Perez
  • Tamika Mallory
  • Linda Sarsour 
     

Information about other historically significant U.S. women can be found at: