Bipartisan Group Backs Creation of Smithsonian Women's History Museum
A growing group of legislators is backing the creation of a new Smithsonian women’s history museum.
This Woman Died for the Right to Vote 104 Years Ago Today
Women of the United Kingdom head to the polls for today’s special election on a particularly fitting anniversary. It’s been 104 years to the day since Emily Wilding Davison died for the cause of women’s suffrage, trampled to death in the middle of a high-profile horse race, in front of the King and Queen themselves.
Watch: Women at Work: Meet the Audio Engineer Who Moves to Her Own Beat
Editor’s note: For Women’s History Month, The Root is celebrating women from a wide range of professional industries in our video series Women at Work.
History Podcast Plagued With Complaints They Spotlight Women Too Much Brings the Receipts
Behold: A convenient illustration of the fact that when you start mentioning women at all, ever, some people start wondering why you have to talk about women all the damn time.
I Want to Know Everything About These Women in Turn-of-the-Century Atlanta
These sharp-dressed ladies are sitting on the steps of a building at Atlanta University, circa 1899. I want to know all their stories, in detail.
Today Is the 95th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment's Ratification
On this day in 1920, the thirty-sixth (and last necessary) state ratified the Nineteenth Amendment, promising women the right to vote.
Londoners Take Another Swing at a Women's History Museum
Recently, in a perfect sick joke about the framing of women’s stories, a promised Women’s History Museum in London was revealed to be yet another Jack the Ripper attraction. Now two historians want to create an actual women’s history museum. Whoa now, let’s not get too wild, here!
Man Promises Women's Museum, Opens Jack the Ripper Museum Instead
In January of 2015, Mark Palmer-Edgecumbe, a former diversity chief at Google, had plans approved to build a museum in Whitechapel, London that would “retell the story of the East End through the eyes, voices, experiences and actions” of women. Six month later, construction covers have been removed to reveal few minor…
Kate Beaton Talks the Appeal of Princesses (And Farting Ponies)
If you’re a history nerd and you’ve spent any time whatsoever online, you’ve probably familiar with Kate Beaton’s Hark! A Vagrant comics. Because jokes about Lord Byron and Liszt and the Brontë sisters’ questionable taste in men are great, and hers in particular are hilarious.
Conservative Women Celebrate Women's History by Criticizing Feminism
Shocker of the day: a set of conservative women chosen by The Heritage Foundation to talk about feminism don't like feminism.
Remembering Octavia Butler, SciFi Pioneer
When an interviewer asked Hugo- and Macarthur-winning novelist Octavia Butler what she thought of her books being classed as science fiction, she said, "Really, it doesn't matter. A good story is a good story." In honor of Women's History Month, here is (some of) the story of Butler's life.
Senators Defy Meryl Streep, Block Women's History Museum
Senators Tom Coburn and Jim DeMint won't let the Smithsonian lease space to a women's history museum — because the ladies already have their quilting museums, and because someone told them the museum was going to be pro-abortion. Seriously.
Glenn Beck's Lady Special: Founding Mothers Were Ugly
"Today is kind of like Oprah," said Glenn Beck on his recent "Founding Mothers" special. True — if Oprah was all about calling Revolution-era women ugly, saying men are better, and blaming the erasure of women's history on Marxists.
Nestlé Ad Shows Women Have Only Held Back Humanity's Progress
This Romanian Nestlé wafers commercial demonstrates how women have hampered human innovation throughout history by making men listen to their stupid ideas. This is, of course, absurd — as countless ads have shown, men never listen to women. [Sociological Images]
Gail Collins: "The Revolution Will Be Achieved When No One Has To Do The Ironing"
New York Times columnist Gail Collins—the paper's first female editorial page editor—has written a chronicle of the last 40 50 years of American women's history, When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present.
Earnestly-Titled Women's History Magazine Looks Awesome
A history mag? We're with you. A women's history mag? You had us at hello. And it's smart and handsome, too? Swell! It's called...HerStoria? Aye, there's the rub. But don't let it deter you!
Is The History Of Women A History Of Hate?
Is it possible to write the history of women? That's the question implicit in Hilary Mantel's review of Marilyn French's four-volume From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women.
Skirting The Issue
If a hoop skirt strikes you as an unlikely agent of feminist change, you'd be in good company. But an exhibit at Paris's Palais Galliera seeks to make just this argument. Despite its obvious restrictions, a crinoline provided a measure of comfort: one was not required to wear heavy undergarments and could move with…
