2011 Theme - Our History is Our Strength
Cleopatra, Queen Elizabeth I, Catherine the Great, Eleanor Roosevelt, Golda Meir, Mary Todd Lincoln, Jackie Kennedy, Margaret Thatcher, Barbara Jordan, Amelia Earhart … these women fascinate me because they accomplished so much without the tools we think are completely necessary today. They led countries when women were in harems and worse. They made life and death decisions for armies. They supported other leaders. They broke glass ceilings, pushed the envelope, and thought out of the box.
Today, I am better for the many women who have influenced my life and helped build my character. I have watched them stand firmly for their beliefs and travel roads closed to women previously. I thank the women who demanded that females be able to vote, to own property and to defend their country. I admire the women who are still working to achieve these rights in countries which refuse to recognize us.
March is Women’s History Month. We could list women authors who had to use men’s names to publish. We could remember Florence Nightingale and Marie Curie, along with other women creating waves in medicine. We could praise Billie Jean King, Babe Didrikson and Sonja Henie for breaking through in women’s sports. Scientists, Nobel prize winners, journalists, educators…women from all walks of life, all special interests, have cleared a path for us. And we are still pushing edges of envelopes, breaking glass ceilings and helping women who will follow us.
Try this women’s history month site. It egged me on.
http://www.nwhp.org/whm/index.php
