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Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business March 2021

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on coming events as well as news and perspectives related to women’s leadership and gender equity.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business February 2021

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on coming events as well as news and perspectives related to women’s leadership and gender equity.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business January 2021

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on coming events as well as news and perspectives related to women’s leadership and gender equity.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business Dec. 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality, and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business Nov. 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business Oct. 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

Invitation to Women's Leadership Forums Virtual Event November 4

Join prominent women leaders in business, law, education, journalism, public policy and more in a conversation about gender equality – past, present and future. Three free, virtual, interactive 90-minute panel discussions! Register for one or all three.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business Sept. 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality, and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business August 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality, and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

NYT photo of Artist working on suffragist monument

For Three Suffragists, a Monument Well Past Due

Central Park will soon unveil its first sculpture depicting nonfictional female figures. “The fact that nobody even noticed that women were missing in Central Park — what does that say about the invisibility of women?”

HuffPost photo of Keeda Haynes running for Congress

Record Number Of Women Of Color Running For Congress In 2020

At least 267 Black, Latinx, Asian, Native American, Middle Eastern and North African women are running for the House and Senate, shattering 2018’s numbers.

The Black sorority that faced racism in the suffrage movement but refused to walk away

Among them were the 22 young founders of Delta Sigma Theta Sorority Inc. at Howard University debuting as warriors for their race.

What the First Women Voters Experienced When Registering for the 1920 Election

The process varied by state, with some making accommodations for the new voting bloc and others creating additional obstacles.

100 Years of Voting Hasn’t Done What We Thought It Would

In this opinion column published in the New York Times, Gail Collins considers “the unfinished business of the women’s vote.”

graphic emblem for Women 100's Toast to Tenacity

Vision 2020 Announces New Schedule for Women 100, Its Yearlong Commemoration of the Centennial of Women’s Suffrage

In response to the Covid-19 health crisis, Vision 2020’s has revised its calendar of events for Women 100, with the yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution now extending into March 2021 – Women’s History Month.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business July 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality, and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

Acclaimed Singer-Songwriter Meghan Cary’s “River Rock Project” Teams Up with Vision 2020 to Celebrate Centennial of Women’s Suffrage

Billboard Critic’s Choice Artist Meghan Cary and her initiative the “River Rock Project” is teaming up with Vision 2020 in honor of this year’s Centennial of women’s suffrage.

Women 100 Monthly Newsletter: Unfinished Business June 2020

The monthly newsletter of Women 100 includes updates on upcoming signature events as well as news related to women, equality, and the national celebration of the 19th Amendment centennial.

WHYY Pioneering Women Podcast: Mae Jemison

Mae Jemison was the first African American woman to become an astronaut. An engineer and physician, she spent more than a week orbiting Earth in the space shuttle Endeavor in 1992. Listen to the 1-minute podcast hosted by WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane.

WHYY Pioneering Women Podcast: Susan B. Anthony

Susan B. Anthony was a writer, lecturer, abolitionist, and a leading figure in the women’s voting rights movement. She was arrested for trying to vote in a presidential election. The U.S. Treasury Department put Susan B. Anthony’s portrait on dollar coins in 1979. Listen to the 1-minute podcast hosted by WHYY’s Marty Moss-Coane.

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