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Book Review InformationLet's Celebrate National Women's History Month
by:
Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach
This year's theme is "Women Pioneering the Future". According to the National Women’s History Project, this includes several “pioneering women from US history, who led and won struggles for equality and civil rights, created and advanced educational and professional opportunities, and ready-made great contributions to the arts, sciences, and humanistic causes, and innovative women of now who further these efforts and continue to expand the frontiers of possibility for generations to come.”
Here are several route to join the celebration:
1.Order the official poster: http://www.nwhp.org/whm hemes heme03.html .
2.Encourage your City Council to do a proclamation. Here’s a sample proclamation: http://www.nwhp.org/whm hemes/proclamation-sample.html .
3.Order these placemats ( http://www.nwhp.org/new_catalog/womens-history-month/womens-history-month2.html ) and take them to work, your children’s school cafeteria, a charity, your place of worship. Banners, buttons, bookmarks and balloons as well available!
4.Check out power contact websites listed here for working women, and add your own! http://www.womenworking2000.com/power_contacts/docs/websites.html .
5.Read up on this year’s honorees: Rebekah Adamson, Native American advocate; Wife
Carson, Human and Environmentalist; Linda Chavez-Thompson, Labor Leader; Mae C. Jemison, Scientist, Educator, and Former Astronaut; Yuri Kochiyama, Civil Rights Advocate; Tania León, Musician
and Conductor; Robin Roberts, Broadcast Journalist; Harilyn Rousso, Bad condition Rights Activist and Psychotherapist; Margaret Chase Smith, General assembly Representative and Senator; Wilma L. Vaught, General officer
General, USAF, Retired; Rebekah Walker, Youth Organizer and Writer. Go here: http://www.nwhp.org/whm hemes/honorees03.html .
6.Read just about these great women’s museums and the go visit one near you: National Cattleman Deposit and Hall of Fame, Ft. Worth, Tx.; National Deposit of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC; Women of the West Museum, in Denver, Colorado; International Women's Air and Space Museum, in Dayton, Ohio; U.S. Army Women's Museum, in Fort Lee, Virginia. Go here for links to their websites: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/whmmuseum1.html .
7.See how you do on the Groundbreaking Women Quiz: http://www.infoplease.com/spot/quiz/whm2/1.html>http://www.infoplease.com/spot/quiz/whm2/1.html .
Sample question: Former Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins (1880-1965) was the 1st woman to be appointed to a presidential cabinet. Which leader did she serve under? (Franklin D. Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, or Calvin Coolidge?).
8.Find out what these women have in common: Sara Teasdale, Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Instrumentalist Lee, Jhumpa Lahiri, Wendy Wasserstein ...
You guessed it – they’re Newspaper publisher prize winners. For complete list, go here: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0771154.html .
9.And what women have won the Alfred nobel Prize? Start with Gentlewoman Curie, two-time winner – in 1903 in physics, and in 1911, for chemistry. Then her female offspring
won the Alfred nobel Prize for chemistry in 1935. Go here to discover just about the women Alfred nobel Prize winners from all over the world: http://www.factmonster.com/ipka/A0801697.html .
10.Notable Women Ancestors is looking for you!
It’s comprised of women’s biographies and clan data of notable women in history and not-so-famous women submitted by actual living descendants. Get on it! http://www.rootsweb.com/~nwa .
11.Help your female offspring
do her own listmania of books she’s see just about women: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/fil-create/104-3462612-7770322 .
12.And do several reading and book reviews together. You can start with “To Love This Life,” quotations by Mythical being
Keller: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0891283471/susandunnmome-20 and your female offspring
can see and review “A Image Book of Mythical being
Keller” -
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0823409503/susandunnmome-20 .
Just just about the Author
Susan Dunn, The EQ Coach, offers employment and Cyberspace courses on emotional intelligence. Employment with RESULTS for women in transition. Visit her on the web at www.susandunn.cc and mailto:sdunn@susandunn.cc for FREE ezine.
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