womens history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/26/2020
  

  With Schools and Daycare Closed, the Coronavirus is Worsening Women’s Inequality

  by Lisa Levenstein

  The paucity of policy support for childbirth and care work are the result of a system that still envisions the ideal worker as a man.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/25/2020
  

  21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments

  Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them). 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/18/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Launched the Original Anti-Racist Reading List

  by Ashley Dennis

  Black women librarians have been important leaders in promoting books and publishing standards that encourage readers to recognize human dignity and reject racist stereotypes in children's literature.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  6/15/2020
  

  Five Women Veterans Who Deserve to Have Army Bases Named After Them

  The U.S. Army has 10 installations named after Confederate generals. Zero are named after women.

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• SOURCE: Washington Monthly
  6/22/2020
  

  Why Can’t Republicans Elect Women?

  The Republican Party has not matched the gains made by Democrats in seating women in Congress since the "Year of the Woman" in 1992. 

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• 6/21/2020
  

  Walter Mondale's Campaign Did Accomplish Something (Ask Joe Biden's Future Running Mate)

  by Joel K. Goldstein

  Walter Mondale's choice of Representative Geraldine Ferraro as his running mate in 1984 opened the major parties' general election tickets to women for the first time. Will Joe Biden's campaign fulfill that promise this year?

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• SOURCE: Slate
  6/16/2020
  

  The Real Story Behind “Because of Sex”

  by Rebecca Onion

  One of the most powerful phrases in the Civil Rights Act is often viewed as a malicious joke that backfired. But its entrance into American law was far more savvy than that, led by Representative Martha Griffiths.

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• SOURCE: Book Riot
  6/16/2020
  

  12 Informative Queer Women's History Reads

  A selection of historical works examine the lives of queer women, the relationship of queer and racial identities, and the establishment of heterosexuality as a social norm. 

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• SOURCE: Norfolk Virginian-Pilot
  6/14/2020
  

  Edith White, World War II ‘Code Girl’ and Norfolk Academy Librarian who Fought Massive Resistance, Dies at 96

  Edith White was part of a team of women who served the US Navy as codebreakers, and fought for democratic values like integrated schools after the war's end. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/12/2020
  

  A Short History of Black Women and Police Violence

  by Keisha N. Blain

  Despite, or perhaps because of, their own vulnerability to state-sanctioned violence, black women have been key voices in the struggle to end it.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  6/9/2020
  

  The Black Women Who Paved the Way for This Moment

  by Keisha N. Blain

  The prominence of black women in today's protests is not a sudden development. In taking to the streets in support of their goals, they are building upon a rich tradition of black women’s organizing.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/8/2020
  

  19 Facts About the 19th Amendment on its 100th Anniversary

  The suffrage movement that led to the 19th Amendment was intertwined with many other social reform movements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, but the broad demands of egalitarian reforms activists wanted remain unfulfilled. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  6/10/2020
  

  The Template for Using White Privilege to Fight Racism

  by Nancy C. Unger

  Whiteness enables allies in this struggle to push in ways that African Americans sometimes cannot without disproportionate risk. That was Belle La Follette’s secret — she used white privilege to fight against it.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/29/2020
  

  Women’s Household Labor Is Essential. Why Isn’t It Valued?

  by Alexandra Finley

  Covid-19 has exposed enduring inequality in domestic divisions of labor.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/22/2020
  

  Immigrant Workers Have Borne the Brunt of COVID-19 Outbreaks at Meatpacking Plants

  by Anya Jabour

  The COVID-19 epidemic should remind us of the hazards faced by immigrant meatpacking workers a century ago, and the labor and industry reforms needed to secure their safety.

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• SOURCE: University of Illinois Press
  5/27/2020
  

  Continuing to Reshape Women’s History: The Ongoing Story of Nontraditional Women Historians

  by Julie Gallagher and Barbara Winslow

  The editors of a collection of essays by non-traditional women historians celebrate the impact of the Catherine Prelinger Award (of the Coordinating Council for Women in History), which aided the scholarship published in their book and is supporting a new generation of women historians expanding the scope of the field to address race, disability, indigeneity, and mass incarceration (among other issues).

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• SOURCE: Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission
  5/25/2020
  

  Curator's Cut: An Inside Look at DC's Suffrage Exhibits (Wednesday May 27, 7:00 PM EDT)

  The curators of three Washington-based exhibits on the centennial of the 19th Amendment discuss the history of women's suffrage. 

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• SOURCE: KUT
  5/25/2020
  

  What Might Have Been: The Forgotten History Of Women On The Supreme Court Shortlist

  In the new book, "Shortlisted: Women in the Shadows of the Supreme Court", coauthors Renee Knake Jefferson and Hannah Brenner Johnson tell the story of nine women who were considered for positions on the country's highest court in the decades before O'Connor's appointment.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/24/2020
  

  June Willenz, Champion of Women in the Military, Dies at 95

  She didn’t serve in the military herself. But she saw the armed services denying equal benefits to female veterans, and she crusaded to make a difference.

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• SOURCE: MediaPost
  5/19/2020
  

  'NYT' Launches 'Unfinished Work' Virtual Series, Focuses On Women's Rights

  The event series commemorating the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment will feature historians Martha S. Jones, Kate Clarke Lemay, and Susan Ware.