Women & Gender

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Crowd photo at the 2017 Women's March in Washington DC
The Way We Never Were (Prologued, Season 1, Episode 1)
The headquarters of the National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage in 1911.
The Nineteenth Amendment
Suffragettes protest for the right to vote
Prologued Podcast celebrating the 19th Amendment Centennial
Suffragists with signs: "Votes for Women"
The Myth of the Women's Voting Bloc (Prologued, Season 1, Trailer)
Feminist activists demonstrating on London’s Downing Street.
The International History of the U.S. Suffrage Movement
school girls in class - Studying biology and physics from English textbooks presents challenges in understanding the material but is necessary because their state examinations will be in English.
A Postcard from Pakistan: Girls Education in Gilgit-Baltistan
Women marching
The History of International Women’s Day
Elizabeth Cady Stanton with two children
Elizabeth Cady Stanton: Wife, Mother, Revolutionary Thinker
portion of a movie poster for the movie Mary Queen of Scots, directed by Josie Rourke
At the Movies: Mary Queen of Scots
Graffiti in Lisbon, Portugal.
The Catholic Church and Sexual Abuse, Then and Now
A card celebrating March 8 as International Women’s Day.
International Women's Day
The Great Mosque of Djenne. This image illustrates the influence of Islam in the region and the building style of the region. Its origins are unknown but it shows the power of the emperors who built this structure that still stands today.
A New View of West African Empires
illustration of people around a fire ring
The Causes and Costs of Barrenness
Women at the Women's March in DC with signs: "Can't Believe We STILL Have to Protest", "Keep your Hands and Laws Off my Body", "RAPE CULTURE" with a line through it
The Long History of #MeToo
Hillary Clinton
Representations of Women in Politics in Modern Media
Gloria Steinem and Dorothy Pitman-Hughes in 1972.
Are Women People? The Equal Rights Amendment Then and Now
Marchers for the Equal Rights Amount, holding banner that reads "Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex"
The Equal Rights Amendment: Then and Now
Women suffragists marching on Pennsylvania Avenue in Washington D.C., March 3, 1913.
The First Time Women Marched on Washington
Margaret Gorman, winner of the first Miss America Pageant in 1922.
Beauty Pageants and American Politics
Sheikha Mozah
Beyond the Veil: Women in the Mideast and North Africa
Eight women in US politics
Women in American Politics
A woman walks by revolutionary graffiti in Cairo.
Feminism in Egypt: New Alliances, Old Debates
Brooklyn Congresswoman Shirley Chisholm.
Madame President: A History of the Women Who Ran before Hillary
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