Women's History Month: Internet Resources

Advocating for women and girls since 1881 and into the future!

The Association for Women's Rights in Development (AWID) is a global, feminist, membership, movement-support organization.

The Center for American Women and Politics (CAWP), a unit of the Eagleton Institute of Politics at Rutgers, Its mission is to promote greater knowledge and understanding about the role of women in American politics, enhance women's influence in public life, and expand the diversity of women in politics and government.

The Center for Reproductive Rights is a global human rights organization of lawyers and advocates who ensure reproductive rights are protected in law as fundamental human rights for the dignity, equality, health, and well-being of every person

We offer flexible feminist funding and support to fuel collective action and create meaningful change that will last beyond our lifetimes

Advocating for women in music around the globe and promoting their music through concerts, competitions, conferences, and grants.

NOW has hundreds of chapters and hundreds of thousands of members and activists in all 50 states and the District of Columbia. Since our founding in 1966, NOW’s purpose is to take action through intersectional grassroots activism to promote feminist ideals, lead societal change, eliminate discrimination, and achieve and protect the equal rights of all women and girls in all aspects of social, political, and economic life.

The National Women’s History Alliance formerly, the National Women’s History Project, is a leader in promoting Women’s History and is committed to the goals of education, empowerment, equality, and inclusion.

The Society of Women Engineers is the world’s largest advocate and catalyst for change for women in engineering and technology.

UN Women is the UN organization delivering programs, policies and standards that uphold women’s human rights and ensure that every woman and girl lives up to her full potential.

A nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization dedicated to the encouragement and advancement of women in all aviation career fields and interests.

The 19th Amendment guarantees American women the right to vote. From the National Archives

From the National Archives

Pew Research Center

Located in the historic Seneca Knitting Mill in Seneca Falls, New York. The National Women’s Hall of Fame (NWHF/The Hall), founded in 1969, is the nation’s first and oldest non-profit organization and museum dedicated to honoring and celebrating the achievements of distinguished American women.

Founded in 1996, the National Women’s History Museum (NWHM) is an innovative online museum dedicated to uncovering, interpreting, and celebrating women’s diverse contributions to society.

Read about the Smithsonian's latest scholarship on women's history, get inspired with stories from our collections, and see other updates.

The Turning Point Suffragist Memorial commemorates the millions of little-known women who engaged in the suffragist movement primarily from 1848 through passage of the 19th Amendment in 1920 that allowed most women to vote and is located in Occoquan Regional Park, Fairfax County, Virginia, part of the historic prison grounds where the infamous Occoquan Workhouse was located.

The Women's and Gender Studies Web Archive collects and preserves online content on topics of importance to the interdisciplinary field of Women's and Gender Studies. Collection priorities include primary sources, first hand accounts, and records of social, cultural, and political movements for gender equality.

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The first woman to become a member of the U.S. Congress, A pacifist and suffragist, Rankin was elected to Congress four years before the 19th Amendment gave women nationwide the right to vote. In 1914, her home state of Montana passed a law granting suffrage to women in that state

The Woman Series Collection consists of 197 episodes of the Woman series produced by WNED in Buffalo, New York from 1972-1977 From the American Archive of Public Broadcasting

From National Women's History Museum on Google Arts and Culture

Science Museum, London. The resources were developed in conjunction with the AHRC project “Electrifying Women: Understanding the Long History of Women in Engineering,” with Professor Graeme Gooday at the University of Leeds.

Selected music collections with a focus on women composer and musicians. From the Library of Congress

A guide to resources in the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts and other resources.

From the Smithsonian