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First page of Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen. The Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (French: Déclaration des droits de la femme et de la citoyenne), also known as the Declaration of the Rights of Woman, was written on 14 September 1791 by French activist, feminist, and playwright Olympe de Gouges in response to the 1789 Declaration of ...
Laurel Thatcher Ulrich (born July 11, 1938) is a Pulitzer Prize-winning American historian specializing in early America and the history of women, and a professor at Harvard University. [1] Her approach to history has been described as a tribute to "the silent work of ordinary people". [2] Ulrich has also been a MacArthur Genius Grant recipient.
A public education suits them: it early places before their eyes all the scenes of life: only the proportions are different. The paternal home is better for the education of women; they have less need to learn to deal with the interests of others, than to accustom themselves to a calm and secluded life. [6] Olympe de Gouges
Every March, we celebrate women's contributions to history and present-day society with Women’s History Month. “Feminists in the 1970s critiqued the exclusion and lack of recognition of women ...
"A life is not important except in the impact is has on other lives." — Jackie Robinson, American baseball player "From what we get, we can make a living; what we give, however, makes a life."
Throughout the 18th century the salon served as a matrix for Enlightenment ideals. Women were important in this capacity because they took on the role of salonnieres. [13] Salons of France were assembled by a small number of elite women who were concerned with education and promoting philosophies of the Enlightenment. [12]
50+ Influential Latina Women in History 1. Dolores Huerta ... She took on the board of education in the landmark Méndez vs. Westminster desegregation case that paved the way for Brown vs. Board ...
Maria Stewart was born Maria Miller in 1803 in Hartford, Connecticut to free African American parents. In 1806, by the age of three, she lost both parents and was sent to live with a white minister and his family where she worked as an indentured servant until around the age of 15, where she received no formal education.