Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet member when she was confirmed as Secretary of Labor under FDR in 1933 and served in that post until 1945, to date the longest serving head of the Labor Dept. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Perkins
Alice Abadam, Anglo #Welsh suffragist, feminist public speaker, Catholic convert. Said "the Constructive Feminist has to be no man's shadow. She must be herself – free to the very soul of sex servility. So, & only so, can she save a stricken world" d #OTD 31 Mar 1940 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Abadam
@CarveHerName @histodons #WHM #WHM2025 #whm25
Ángela Alessio Robles, Mexican civil engineer & town planner. 1940/50s Director General of Planning for Mexico City, then President of Planning & Director of Plan for Urban Development. 1980s oversaw dev't of huge #Monterrey Macroplaza b. #OTD 30 Mar 1917 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/%C3%81ngela_Alessio_Robles #WomenInSTEM #WHM #WHM2025 @CarveHerName @histodons
March shines a spotlight on Women’s History worldwide. In this blog, we are excited to feature an international contributor, Rachel Phillips, from the British School at Athens. Rachel offers us insight into an archival project that looks at the experiences of women at the British School at Athens between 1890 and 1920 https://www.exploreyourarchive.org/the-role-of-women-in-the-early-years-of-the-british-school-at-athens
#Athens #Women #WHM #WHM2025 #archives #school #greece @histodons
Dolores Huerta, in her work as an activist and labor organizer since the 1950s, has lived out the slogan she coined - "Sí, se puede." For her efforts, she has received numerous honors including the Presidential Medal of Freedom. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dolores_Huerta
Women's history, union work, educational ambitions, and more in a 1942 photo by Russell Lee in Creek County, OK, for the U.S. Farm Security Administration. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/4e906fe0-3ec5-0137-4dbb-05753e085b4b
Freshly blogged: "CB Radio Cards and Sociability" https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/23/cb-radio-cards-and-sociability.html
YWCA War Work Council poster, ca. 1917 (United States)
Library of Congress, https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2002707403
Here are four of the images I've posted for #WomensHistoryMonth. Details, including better alt text, at the links below:
https://markstoneman.com/xpost001
https://markstoneman.com/xpost002
https://markstoneman.com/xpost003
https://markstoneman.com/xpost004
#WHM #OldPhotos #Art #AntiWarMovement
"Girl with Blue Hair" by Blanche Grambs. Lithograph signed by artist, ca. 1935–43.
Works Progress Administration (WPA) Art Collection, NYPL Digital Collections, https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/8ebea460-d56d-0131-155d-58d385a7bbd0
An (incomplete) history of women in engineering in UK from C19th, through opportunities opened by #WWI & #WWII up to 1970s. Add more if you can? #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInSTEM #WomenInEngineering #whm2025 #whm https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_women_in_engineering_in_the_United_Kingdom
@CarveHerName @histodons
"Mexican miner's wife and child are visited by another miner's wife (Hungarian) who is interested in starting a maternal health clinic there. Scotts Run, Bertha Hill, West Virginia" by Marion Post Walcott for the Farm Security Administration, 1938. https://markstoneman.com/xpost001 #WHM #Migration #OldPhotos #WomensHistory #History #WV
A 1943 photo of welders for Women's History Month #WHM #WWII
Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture, NYPL Digital Collections: https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dd-c69e-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99
"Poster from an Antiwar, Lesbian, Feminist Fugitive, ca. 1970." Details, including alt text, at https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/14/poster-from-an-antiwar-lesbian.html #WHM #RadicalHistory #OldPosters
Photo by Carol M. Highsmith, July 18, 2015: "Members of the Native American Women Warriors, a Pueblo, Colorado-based association…" Further details: https://www.loc.gov/pictures/item/2015633463/.
A small post I wrote for our #library #blog: "Celebrating Women's History Month in 2025."
https://libraryguides.berea.edu/blog/Celebrating-Womens-History-Month-in-2025
Repost for #WHM: Winslow Homer, 'Bell-Time' (1868) https://markstoneman.com/2024/10/30/winslow-homer-belltime.html #WomensHistory #ImmigrantHistory #WorkingClassHistory #MA
"Women and Children Working in New York City Tenement Homes, 1908" https://markstoneman.com/2025/03/08/women-and-children-working-in.html (Photo captions and alt text on blog.) #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #Piecework #ChildLabor #NYC #OldPhotos
#WHM repost: “World War Two Poster Marking the Dignity and Humanity of Black Women on the Home Front” blogged at https://markstoneman.com/2025/02/08/world-war-two-poster-marking.html
![Text Shot: New York World-Telegram photograph by Fred Palumbo, 1964:
Miss April Lou, teacher at PS 1, Manhattan, with six Chinese children, recent arrivals from Hong Kong and Formosa [Taiwan], who are holding up placards giving his or her Chinese name (both in ideographs and in transliteration) and the [American English] name to be entered upon the official school records.
Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94512334/.](https://cdn.masto.host/zirkus/media_attachments/files/114/226/607/958/540/956/original/8e18caca7f9616bc.png "Text Shot: New York World-Telegram photograph by Fred Palumbo, 1964:
Miss April Lou, teacher at PS 1, Manhattan, with six Chinese children, recent arrivals from Hong Kong and Formosa [Taiwan], who are holding up placards giving his or her Chinese name (both in ideographs and in transliteration) and the [American English] name to be entered upon the official school records.
Library of Congress, New York World-Telegram & Sun Collection, www.loc.gov/pictures/item/94512334/.")
