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A celebration of women’s many accomplishments

March is the month when we take the time to look back and honor the many achievements of women through history and the vast strides made by women today. Learn more about some of the world’s greatest women, the struggle for women’s rights, and a bit about the history of women’s history.  

  • Nobel Winning Scientists
  • Nobel Peace Prize Winners
  • Pulitzer Prize Winners in Literature
  • Pulitzer Prize Winners in Journalism
  • Women Political Leaders
  • Women Inventors
  • Timeline: Women in Sports

More Biographies of Notable Women

  • Actresses
  • Adventurers
  • Artists
  • Athletes
  • Businesswomen
  • Comediennes
  • Congresswomen
  • Educators and Scholars
  • Fashion Designers and Models
  • Literary Figures
  • Media Figures
  • Musicians and Dancers
  • Reformers and Activists
  • Saints and Sinners
  • Scientists
  • Women in U.S. Government
  • World Leaders
  • more categories »

History and Timelines

Read up on important landmarks in the history of women’s rights.

  • The History of Women’s History
  • Timeline: U.S. Women’s Rights Movement
  • Famous Firsts by American Women
  • The Wage Gap: A History
  • Landmark Supreme Court Cases in Women’s Rights
  • International Women’s Day (March 8)
  • Declaration of Sentiments
  • more history and timelines »

Modern Women’s Issues and Activities

To learn more about various issues that affect women today, teach kids the importance of women’s history, or just quiz yourself and prove your knowledge, try our facts and activities page.

The National Women’s Hall of Fame

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is the only national membership organization that honors and celebrates the achievements of American women. Founded in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, where in 1848 the first Women’s Rights Convention was held, the Hall inducts distinguished women and offers programs and exhibits in Seneca Falls, the Finger Lakes area, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere.

Women are chosen for inclusion in the Hall of Fame on the basis of:

  • The value of their contribution to society, to significant groups within society, or to the progress and freedom of women.
  • Their contributions to art, athletics, business, government, philanthropy, humanities, science, and education.
  • The enduring value of their achievements.

For further information, contact The National Women’s Hall of Fame, 76 Fall Street, Seneca Falls, N.Y. 13148. Phone: (315) 568-8060.

Women’s Hall of Fame Honorees

To read more about the remarkable women singled out for recognition by the Hall of Fame, be sure to check our Biographies of Notable Women. These include:

 

  • Abigail Adams

  • Jane Addams

  • Madeleine Albright

  • Louisa May Alcott

  • Marian Anderson

  • Maya Angelou

  • Susan B. Anthony

  • Anne Bancroft

  • Clara Barton

  • Mary McLeod Bethune

  • Elizabeth Blackwell

  • Nellie Bly

  • Gwendolyn Brooks

  • Pearl S. Buck

  • Rachel Carson

  • Mary Ann Shadd Cary

  • Mary Cassatt

  • Willa Cather

  • Shirley Chisholm

  • Emily Dickinson

  • Dorothea Dix

  • Amelia Earhart

  • Mary Baker Eddy

  • Geraldine Ferraro

  • Ella Fitzgerald

  • Betty Friedan

  • Helen Hayes

  • Mary Harris “Mother" Jones

  • Oveta Culp Hobby

  • Grace Hopper

  • Julia Ward Howe

  • Helen Hunt

  • Zora Neale Hurston

  • Anne Hutchinson

  • Helen Keller

  • Billie Jean King

  • Maggie Kuhn

  • Juliette Gordon Low

  • Mary Lyon

  • Wilma Mankiller

  • Maria Goeppert Mayer

  • Margaret Mead

  • Maria Mitchell

  • Constance Baker Motley

  • Lucretia Mott

  • Antonia Coello Novello

  • Annie Oakley

  • Sandra Day O’Connor

  • Georgia O’Keeffe

  • Rosa Parks

  • Alice Paul

  • Frances Perkins

  • Sally Ride

  • Edith Nourse Rogers

  • Eleanor Roosevelt

  • Wilma Rudolph

  • Margaret Sanger

  • Patricia Schroeder

  • Elizabeth Seton

  • Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver

  • Bessie Smith

  • Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • Gloria Steinem

  • Lucy Stone

  • Harriet Beecher Stowe

  • Maria Tallchief

  • Sojourner Truth

  • Harriet Tubman

  • Lillian D. Wald

  • Faye Wattleton

  • Edith Wharton

  • Oprah Winfrey

  • Chien-Shiung Wu

  • “Babe†Didrikson Zaharias

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