This year, the new Center for Great Women will take up residence in the historic Seneca Falls Knitting Mill in Seneca Falls, NY. Next year marks the centennial anniversary of U.S. women’s right to vote, so it’s prime time to visit this western New York town, birthplace of the women’s rights movement in the United […]
Women's Rights
She must have read my book!
Rebecca Edwards, who began a stint as a Dutchess County, New York legislator this year, must have read A Shocking & Unnatural Incident. Why else would she know that the early women’s rights movement wasn’t just about suffrage? Just kidding. Edwards writes a detailed account of What Women Want (since nearly the origin of women) […]
Best dressed congresswoman offered 1st equal pay bill
Ever hear of Winifred Stanley? The first person to introduce equal pay legislation in Congress? Me neither, but a recent Washington Post article changed that. Rep. Winifred C. Stanley was a Buffalo, NY, Republican, who gained a congressional seat on a $6 campaign budget. Despite a successful career as a tough prosecutor who won the […]
Can a ‘Promise’ end domestic violence?
Domestic violence often pounds through multiple generations. Moms watched their moms who witnessed their mothers being pummeled by raging family members. Can it–will it–ever stop? L.Y. Marlow saw the bruises on her daughter’s face and neck. She learned her 6-month-old granddaughter had lain on the bed while her father strangled her mother. Marlow looked at […]
Casual shopping helped spur right to vote
Here’s a shocker: Shopping, that decidedly female pastime of perusing consumer goods with or without the intent to purchase, was actually a catalyst for the women’s rights movement. Erika Diane Rappaport writes in Shopping for Pleasure that “for many middle-class housewives in Victorian England, shopping was their first taste of real freedom, and the starting […]
#Girl Power: 2 NY students advocate women’s rights
Lily Zhang and Sheryl Chen, both 17 and seniors at Staten Island Tech High School, have collaborated to create Girls Advocating Leadership & Strength, Inc. GALS is a non-profit organization focusing on supporting female leadership positions in business and politics. It’s comforting to know young women have not lost faith in their future. More than […]
