Transcript Seneca Falls & The National Women`s Hall of Fame: Celebrating

Seneca Falls and the
National Women’s Hall of Fame:
Celebrating Women’s Rights
and Accomplishments
June 13, 2013
Seneca Falls: Where it All Began
Five Women Started a Revolution
Mary Ann M’Clintock
Elizabeth Cady
Stanton
Lucretia Mott
Martha Coffin
Wright
Jane Hunt
A Convention for Woman’s Rights
A Movement is Born
The Fight Continues
The Facts Today
• Women and girls are still underrepresented in
science and math
• About 4% of Fortune 500 company CEOs are
women
• Less than 20 countries in the world currently have
female heads of state
• Women still earn less money for performing the
same job as a man
National Women’s Hall of Fame
"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and
women are created equal...”
Our Mission
“Showcasing great women…
Inspiring all!”
Induction Weekend 2013
October 11th & 12th
Seneca Falls, New York
Betty Ford
1918 - 2011
• Achievement in Humanities
• Groundbreaking First Lady of the
United States
• Co-Founded the Betty Ford
Center (1982)
• Presidential Medal of Freedom
recipient (1991) and Congressional
Gold Medal recipient (with President
Gerald R. Ford,1999)
Ina May Gaskin
1940 –
• Achievement in Science
• Founder of the Farm Midwifery
Center (1971)
• Participated in more than 1,200
births
• Gaskin maneuver is the first
obstetrical maneuver to be
named after a midwife
Julie Krone
1963 –
• Achievement in Athletics
• More than 3,700 career wins
• First woman to win a Triple
Crown event (1993), a
Breeders’ Cup event (2003),
and a million-dollar event
(2003)
Kate Millett
1934 –
• Achievement in Arts,
Humanities
• Feminist activist, writer, artist,
filmmaker, teacher and human
rights activist
• Author of Sexual Politics (1970)
• Director of the Millett Center for
the Arts
Nancy Pelosi
1940 –
• Achievement in Government
• First woman to lead a major
political party in the United
States as the Democratic
Leader of the U.S. House of
Representatives (2002)
• First female Speaker of the
U.S. House of Representatives
(2007-2011)
Mother Mary Joseph Rogers
1882 – 1955
• Achievement in Humanities
• Founded the Maryknoll Sisters
(1912), the first US based
Catholic congregation of women
dedicated to a global mission
• At the time of her death in 1955,
there were 1,065 sisters working
in twenty countries and several
U.S. cities
Bernice Resnick Sandler
1928 –
• Achievement in Humanities
• “Godmother of Title IX”
• Filed the first charges of sex
discrimination against more
than 250 educational
institutions
• Senior Scholar at the Women’s
Research and Education
Institute (Washington, DC)
Ana Jacobson Schwartz
1915 – 2012
• Achievement in Business
• “One of the world’s greatest
monetary scholars”
• More than seventy year career
with the National Bureau of
Economic Research
• Co-author of A Monetary
History of the United States,
1867-1960
Emma Hart Willard
1787 – 1870
• Achievement in Education
• Founded Troy Female
Seminary (renamed Emma
Willard School in 1895)
• The school was the first in the
country to provide women with
an education comparable to
that of a college-educated man
The Future
Historic Canal View
Seneca Knitting Mill
Current Canal View
Seneca Knitting Mill
“Alone we can do so little;
together we can do so much.”
~ Helen Keller
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