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Seneca Falls and the National Women’s Hall of Fame: Celebrating Women’s Rights and Accomplishments

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. Martha Coffin Wright. Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Lucretia Mott. Jane Hunt.

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Seneca Falls and the National Women’s Hall of Fame: Celebrating Women’s Rights and Accomplishments

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  1. Seneca Falls and the National Women’s Hall of Fame: Celebrating Women’s Rights and Accomplishments June 13, 2013

  2. Seneca Falls: Where it All Began

  3. Five Women Started a Revolution Mary Ann M’Clintock Martha Coffin Wright Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia Mott Jane Hunt

  4. A Convention for Woman’s Rights

  5. A Movement is Born

  6. The Fight Continues

  7. 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

  8. National Women’s Hall of Fame "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and women are created equal...”

  9. Our Mission “Showcasing great women… Inspiring all!”

  10. Induction Weekend 2013 October 11th & 12thSeneca Falls, New York

  11. Betty Ford1918 - 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)

  12. Ina May Gaskin1940 – • 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

  13. Julie Krone1963 – • 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)

  14. Kate Millett1934 – • 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

  15. Nancy Pelosi1940 – • 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)

  16. Mother Mary Joseph Rogers1882 – 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

  17. Bernice Resnick Sandler1928 – • 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)

  18. Ana Jacobson Schwartz1915 – 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

  19. Emma Hart Willard1787 – 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

  20. The Future Historic Canal View Seneca Knitting Mill Current Canal View Seneca Knitting Mill

  21. “Alone we can do so little; together we can do so much.” ~ Helen Keller greatwomen.org

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