Women's History Resources

4000 Years of Women in Science

From the University of Alabama

Canadian Women Making an Impact

Web site for the Canadian Women's History Month -- celebrated in October.

A Celebration of Women Writers

Women Veterans: Past, Present & Future

Emory Women Writers Resource Project

Edited and unedited texts by women writers of the seventeenth through nineteenth centuries.

Gale Free Resource

Women's History Month biographies, quizzes, activities

Girl Power

For girls ages 9-14 from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services

History of Women's Suffrage

Internet Women's History Sourcebook

History Department of Fordham University

Mayo Clinic Women's Health Center

Muslim Women's League

National Women's History Museum

National Organization for Women

National Women's Hall of Fame

National Women's History Project

Read the words of these women who spoke out for suffrage.

One Hundred Years Toward Suffrage: An Overview

From the National American Woman Suffrage Association

US Department of Labor Women's Bureau

Vietnam Women's Memorial

WASP, Women Pilots of WWII

Women in Military Service for America Memorial

Women's Health

From the New York Times on the Web

Women in American History

From Encyclopedia Britannica

Women's Studies Journals Online

Indexed by Yahoo

WSSLinks: Women and Gender Studies Web Sites

Developed and maintained by the Women's Studies Section of the Association of College and Research Libraries

Source: SE Library System

Remember, Ginger Rogers did everything Fred Astaire did, but she did it backwards and in high heels.

-Faith Whittlesey

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

-Virginia Woolf

If particular care and attention is not paid to the ladies, we are determined to foment a rebellion, and will not hold ourselves bound by any laws in which we have no voice or representation.

-Abigail Adams

The failure of women to produce genius of the first rank in most of the supreme forms of human effort has been used to block the way of all women of talent and ambition for intellectual achievement in a manner that would be amusingly absurd were it not so monstrously unjust and socially harmful.

-Woman's Share in Social Culture, 1912

Anna Garlin Spencer

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

-Charlotte Whitton

March is Women's History Month.

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