Seneca Falls and the National Women’s Hall of Fame: Celebrating Women’s Rights and Accomplishments June 13, 2013
Feb 24, 2016
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 Mott Jane 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 11th & 12th Seneca Falls, New York
Induction Weekend 2013
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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)
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
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
The Future
Current Canal ViewSeneca Knitting Mill
Historic Canal ViewSeneca Knitting Mill
“Alone we can do so little;together we can do so much.”
~ Helen Keller
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