International Women’s Day

Women’s suffrage exhibit highlights 19th Amendment, beyond

January 8, 2020

“Mr. President how long must women wait for liberty” and “Liberty is a woman” appeared in all-caps on signs made 100 years apart. Suffragists protesting President Woodrow Wilson in 1917 made...

Letter to the Editor: On International Women’s Day, Women’s Center remains committed to gender inclusion, women’s history

March 8, 2018

International Women’s Day is celebrated March 8 in schools and communities throughout the world. The observance grew out of the International Women’s Conference in 1910 as a way to assert women’s...

Evanston History Center celebrates International Women’s Day

March 8, 2018

India, Kenya and Japan are just a few countries celebrating International Women’s Day on a national level, said Lori Osborne, director of the Evanston Women’s History Project. But in the United States,...

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