Women's History
     
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  1. Resourceful Women: A Library of Congress Symposium
  2. Women's History Month Celebration: Women's Art -- Women's Vision
  3. Rosie the Riveter: Real Women Workers in WWII
  4. Women Who Dare
  5. American Heroines: The Spirited Women Who Shaped Our Country
  6. Frances Perkins, the Woman Behind FDR
  7. Women's Activism and Social Change: Documenting the Lives of Margaret Sanger & Jane Addams
  8. Women's History and Food History: New Ways of Seeing American Life
  9. Women in Science and Engineering
  10. Women Taking the Lead to Save Our Planet
  11. Legislating in Heels--An Anecdotal Journal: The Honorable Constance Connie Morella
  12. A Thousand Years Over a Hot Stove: A History of American Women Told Through Food, Recipes and Remembrances
  13. A Modern Queen in a Traditional Role (Nnabagereka Sylvia Nagginda: Queen of Buganda, Republic of Uganda)
  14. Globalization and Women in Muslim Societies
  15. Women in Iran: Past, Present and Future
  16. My Prison, My Home: One Woman's Story of Captivity in Iran
  17. Afghan Women's Stories: the Problematics of Cover
  18. Tunisia: Celebrating Fifty Years of Women's Emancipation
  19. The Women Who Kept the Songs from India to Israel: The Musical Heritage of Cochin
  20. Reading Lolita in Tehran: Azar Nafisi
  21. Life Lines: The Literature of Women
  22. Native American Women Writers
  23. Literature to Life: Zora! (Zora Neale Hurston)
  24. Shelia Moses: Poet, Author, Playwright
  25. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Cokie Roberts
  26. Broadcast Journalist & Author: Andrea Mitchell
  27. Journalist & Author: Maria Celeste Arrarás
  28. Journalist & Author: Anna Quindlen
  29. Author: Mary Pope Osborne
  30. Author: Sue Monk Kidd
  31. Freedom Writer: Virginia Foster Durr, Letters from the Civil Rights Years
  32. Judy Blume: 2009 National Book Festival
  33. Kirstin Downey: 2009 National Book Festival
  34. Patricia Smith: 2009 National Book Festival
 
     
     
  Congressional Activity
Information and remarks on the celebration of Women's History Month, including tributes to particular persons, can be found by using those keywords to search the Congressional Record and legislation from multiple Congresses.
 
     
     
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  "The first picket line - College day in the picket line line." 1917 Feb. National Woman's Party Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. cph 3a32338 http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/cph.3a32338
"The first picket line - College day in the picket line line." 1917 Feb. National Woman's Party Collection, Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division. cph 3a32338
 
     
     
  Woman representation in Congress in March, 2010:
  1. Women currently hold 90, or 16.8%, of the 535 seats in the 11th U.S Congress (17, or 17.0%, of the 100 seats in the Senate and 73, or 16.8%, of the 435 seats in the House of Representatives).
  2. There are 73 women from 31 states serving in the House of Representatives (56 are Democrats and 17 are Republicans); additionally, 3 women Democrats (from Guam, the Virgin Islands and Washington, D.C.) serve as Delegates to the House.