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

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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

Elizabeth Cady Stanton Lucretia MottJane Hunt Martha Coffin Wright Mary Ann M’Clintock Five Women Started a Revolution

A Convention for Woman’s Rights

A Movement is Born

The Fight Continues

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

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

“Showcasing great women… Inspiring all!” Our Mission

October 11 th & 12 th Seneca Falls, New York Induction Weekend 2013

Betty Ford 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)

Ina May Gaskin 1940 – 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

Julie Krone 1963 – 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)

Kate Millett 1934 – 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

Nancy Pelosi 1940 – 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 ( )

Mother Mary Joseph Rogers 1882 – 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

Bernice Resnick Sandler 1928 – 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)

Ana Jacobson Schwartz 1915 – 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,

Emma Hart Willard 1787 – 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

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

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