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Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Born on November 12, 1815, she is an important figure in the women's suffrage movement. She organized the first women's right convention at Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. She died on October 26, 1902, as a leading activist in women's legal and social equality -
Ain't I A Women Speech
Epowering speech by Sojourner Truth during the American Revolution. Talks about women's inequality as a salve. Her experience as a slave and how she and all women can do the same as men. -
Lucy Stone
Born on August 13, 1818, she is an important promoter of the women's suffrage movement. She founded the Women's Journal in 1870 and had her first publication on January 8 of that year. She died on October 18, 1893, as an abolitionist, a speaker of women's rights, and the first woman from Massachusetts to earn a college degree. -
The Story Of An Hour
Written by Kate Chopin, it's a short story depicting a woman's longing for freedom in 1894. The short story depicts a woman whose husband was killed in a train-related accident. She finds relief that she will finally be free of her husband until he walks in and kills her from a heart attack. -
Chrystal MacMillan
Born in Jun 13, 1872, she is an important figure in the women's suffrage movement. She became secretary of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1913. She organised the International Congress of Women in the Hague in 1915, which sought the intervention of neutral states to bring an end WWI. She died on September 21, 1937, as a suffragist, peace activist, barrister, and the first female science graduate from the Edin and the institution's first female honours graduate in mathematics. -
A Jury Of Her Peers
Written by Susan Glaspell, a short story of a woman driven too far. The only people who figured out Mrs.Minnie Wright's evil deed were the women. Who had been dismissed by the detectives as being too dumb to find anything of use. The two women then decide to keep the secret to themselves, knowing Mrs.Wright deserves a better life than being oppressed by her husband. -
Jane Addams
Born on September 6, 1860, she is an important figure in the women's suffrage movement, education, social services, and labor. She won the Nobel Peace Prize for founding the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom in 1931. She died on May 21, 1935, as a social reformer, activist, author, and Nobel Peace Prize Winner. -
Charity Adams
Born on January 19, 1905, she is an important figure in the women's suffrage movement. She served as the first director of the Women's Army Corps, and she helped plan and distribute the first newly created polio vaccination in the U.S. in 1955. She died on August 16, 1995, as the first United States Secretary of Health, Education, Welfare, and the second female cabinet member -
Testimony Before The Senate
Speech delivered by Gloria Stienmen on women's oppression and stereotypes. She talks about how women have always been stereotyped and oppressed by men. She then strides to disprove everyone of them successfully, leaving the only reason for women's oppression as men's ego. -
Shirley Chisholm's Presidential Announcement Speech Transcript
Speech delivered by Shirley Chisholm. Her speech states how the Nixon administration was disastrous. She speaks of the bad execution of his administration. She states that the younger generations have pleaded for the acknowledgement of the deeds being done outside of U.S. borders. -
The Gendered History Of Human Computers
Written by Clive Tompson, the article talks about women's difficulties in the computer industry. Includes women's jobs during WWI and their ease of finding jobs, but difficulties in getting promotions. Includes the comparing of these difficulties with today's women in the industry who face worse problems than the more sexist 1900s. -
Marie Curie, the Red Cross, Invisible light and WWI
Published in the British Red Cross, the article talks of her discoveries of radiation and x-rays and how they were later put to use in WWI. She was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize and the first person to receive two of these prizes. Although she wasn't a big activist of women's suffrage, her being able to even get a Nobel prize or even two shows her fight in an otherwise male-dominated area, science, and her fight to be recognized. (Irène Curie, Marie Curie)