March is Women’s History Month
2 min readPlease check out the National Women’s History Museum at https://www.womenshistory.org/ The site is asking women, girls, and gender non-binary individuals to record their daily thoughts and personal experiences in order to document the impact of the coronavirus pandemic.
Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project
We are living in uncertain times indeed. History-making times. Times that challenge, burden, and cause many women to re-think and re-imagine the workings of their daily lives. Sociologists and economists warn us that the COVID-19 pandemic is and will disproportionately affect women’s lives more so than men. Whether it’s picking up additional childcare or domestic duties or giving up work to step in and care for vulnerable family members, women are often at the center of these responsibilities.
Similarly, women across the nation find themselves required to give birth without their support partners; shouldering obligations left by men, who are particularly vulnerable to the contagion; and working around the obstacles of grocery shortages, homeschooling, and social distancing, all while trying to maintain their own mental health.
As America’s national institution for the promotion, interpretation, and celebration of women’s history, the National Women’s History Museum is committed to ensuring that women and girls’ unique voices and experiences are not left out of the telling of the COVID-19 story. To this end, the NWHM is pleased to launch the Women Writing History: A Coronavirus Journaling Project and is asking women, girls, and gender non-binary individuals to participate in the simple act of recording their daily thoughts and personal experiences during this pandemic in order to document the impact of the coronavirus pandemic on women’s lives. […]
Click here to view original web page at www.womenshistory.org/journal-project
Video: Women’s History Minute: “Dorothea Lange”
National Women’s History Museum – NWHM Links:
Biographies of historical women pioneers – NWHM
The Women of NASA – NWHM
Getting with the Program – [American Women and the Invention of Computer Programming] – NWHM
MY STEM Journey – [Dr. Jessica Kapp] – NWHM
Q&A with Ellen Ochoa – [first female Hispanic astronaut] – NWHM
Hedy Lamarr – [an Austrian-American actress and inventor] – NWHM