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• Smithsonian Events for Women's History Month
• New! Information Center from USAJobs
  Learn more about the hiring process, career exploration, & USAJobs orientation; read FAQs.
• White House Proclamation on Women's History Month
• Census Bureau Facts For Features fact sheet on Women's History Month
• U.S. Department of Labor Women's Bureau website
  
• Places Where Women Made History - a National Park Service website
• Call to Serve -- a joint initiative sponsored by the Partnership for Public Service and the U.S. Office of Personnel Management, providing information on careers in the federal government. Search the directory of federal internships and information with a network of over 600 colleges.   In addition, you'll find information about multiple vacancies in the federal sector, subdivided by jobs that require language skills, loan repayment programs, etc. 
  
• Library of Congress Exhibits:
  • Women Come to the Front: Journalists, Photographers, and Broadcasters during World War II
    
  • Votes for Women: Selections from the Woman Suffrage Association Collection: 1848-1921
    
  • "Votes for Women" Suffrage Pictures 1850-1920
    
  • Women's History Manuscripts
    

Sites Outside the Federal Government

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• Federally Employed Women
• National Women's History Project
• National Women's Hall of Fame - Hall of Fame for American Women in Seneca Falls, New York.  Web site includes biographies of the inductees and a women's history quiz.
  
• National Museum of Women in the Arts - Overview of the collections, exhibitions, and educational programs at the museum. Also includes artworks by women from a variety of time periods and a brief biography and bibliography for selected artists.
  
• Women's Biographies: Distinguished Women of the Past and Present - Searchable by subject and by name.
  
• About.com Women's History Pages - Includes biographies, women's history by time period, African American and Native American women's history, today in women's history and other women's history topics.
  
• Women's Studies Links and Resources from Columbia University
  
• WASP - WWII website - spotlights the first women to fly American military aircraft.
  
• Women Artists of the 20th Century
  
• About.com web page on African American Women's History
  
• Enterprising Women: 250 Years of American Business
  
• History Channel Women's History Month Page
  
• Infoplease.com Women's History Month page

  National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame

  Since 1975 the National Cowgirl Museum and Hall of Fame, in Fort Worth, Texas, has honored cowgirls and other heroines of the American West. The museum features exhibits, lectures, and other events. Potter Maria Martinez, writer Willa Cather, and Indian guide Sacajawea are among the women who are honored at the Hall of Fame.

  National Museum of Women in the Arts

  The National Museum of Women in the Arts, in Washington, DC, is the only museum in the world that focuses on the achievements of women artists. The museum's permanent collection includes more than 3,000 works of art, from sculpture to paintings to photography, and covers the 16th through 21st centuries.

  Women of the West Museum

  Founded in 1991, the Women of the West Museum, in Denver, Colorado, offers traveling exhibits, online activities, and a variety of educational programs. Topics explored in recent exhibits include the early fight for woman suffrage in the West and what life was like for the many women homesteaders who lived in sod houses.

  International Women's Air and Space Museum

  The International Women's Air and Space Museum, in Cleveland, Ohio, was established in 1986 to honor the history of women who took flight in our atmosphere and beyond. Information covers adventurer pilots such as Amelia Earhart, women pilots in the military, and those who ventured into the new frontier-space travel.

  U.S. Army Women's Museum

  The U.S. Army Women's Museum, in Fort Lee, Virginia, opened in May 2001. The museum is dedicated to preserving the history of women who served in the army from the Revolutionary War through today. It is located on the former site of the Women's Army Corps (WAC) Center and School, where thousands of army women had trained.

National Women's History Month

Date:  Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Time:  10:00 AM to 11:00 AM

Location:  Auditorium, U. S. Department of Commerce. 

Program will include:   Keynote Speaker - Ms. Jan Fox, General Assignment Reporter, WUSA Channel 9; Performances by the Washington Women’s Chorus; and Mistress of Ceremonies:  Ms. Alta Rodriguez, Manager, National Diversity Initiatives, U.S. Postal Service.

The Federal Triangle Partnership, consisting of the U.S. Department of Commerce, U.S. Agency for International Development, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, and U.S. Postal Service, is pleased to announce its program commemorating National Women’s History Month which is celebrated during the month of March.  The 2008 national theme is “Women’s Art:  Women’s Vision."

This year's program will be held on Wednesday, March 19, 2008, from 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM, in the Auditorium at the U.S. Department of Commerce.  Seating for this event is on a first come, first serve basis.

The keynote speaker will be Ms. Jan Fox.  Ms. Fox is a General Assignment Reporter for WUSA Channel 9 “Eyewitness News at 5:00 AM and 9:00 AM.  She received an Emmy Award for a feature report, "Kiss and Ride," and a regional television news directors' award for continuous coverage of the rock throwing incident on the beltway that severely injured a 15-year-old girl. Jan also received Emmy awards for a series of investigative reports that led to the arrests of the rock throwers and for an investigative report on car seat belt checks. Ms. Fox received a regional award for reporting on underage drinking and impaired driving; Virginia Governor’s Safety Award for reporting on car seat belt checks; American Association of Women’s Television Award for consumer reporting; Toastmaster’s Community Leadership Award; and, American Cancer Society Mid-Atlantic Vision Award for hosting golf tournaments to fight breast cancer.  Ms. Fox also launched “9 Wants You To Know” a popular consumer affairs investigative news segment.

The program also features the Washington Women’s Chorus (WWC).  Founded in 1996, the WWC is a unique resource in the Washington, DC area.  The 35-member WWC is committed to giving concerts of the highest musical excellence.  The WWC recently completed its 10th Anniversary concert to rave reviews by The Washington Post and Washington Times.   Donald Paul Richardson is the founder and Artistic Director of the Washington Women's Chorus.  He has also served as the Music Director of Winchester Music Viva and John Calvin Presbyterian Church in Annandale, Virginia. Mr. Richardson is a clinician, vocal coach and conductor for ensembles and festival choruses in the Mid-Atlantic region and has been featured as bass soloist in both opera and oratorio performances.

The mistress of ceremonies for the program will be Ms. Alta Rodriguez.  Ms. Rodriguez is the manager of the United States Postal Service’s National Diversity Initiatives (NDI).  

If you have any questions about this program, please contact Senora Coggs, Office of Civil Rights, at (202) 482-8190 or e-mail scoggs@doc.gov.

In 1978, the Education Task Force of the Sonoma County, California Commission on the Status of Women initiated a "Women's History Week." They did this because -- as recently as the 1970's -- women's history was virtually an unknown topic in the K-12 curriculum or in the general public consciousness. The week was chosen to coincide with International Women's Day -- March 8 -- which was first celebrated in 1911 in Europe. Celebrations of National Women's History Week spread throughout the nation.

In 1987 -- at the request of museums, libraries, and educators across the country -- the National Women's History Project petitioned Congress to expand the celebration to the entire month of March. A National Women's History Month Congressional Resolution was quickly passed with strong bipartisan support in both the House and Senate. Every year since then, the U.S. Congress has passed a resolution for Women's History Month.

Federal Women's Council

Commerce Bureau employees are needed to join the Federal Women's Council. If you are interested, or know someone who is, please fill out this application form and fax it to 202-482-5375.

Application for FEWP Program Council (Word File) (PDF file)

Any questions about the Council? Contact Senora Coggs.