A museum dedicated to telling the stories of women both past and present and future. The Women's Museum of California is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization founded in 1983 as the Women's History Reclamation Project.
It was the life-long dream of its founder, Mary B. Maschal, and other women who realized that women and their stories were not included in the mainstream version of history.
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women." - Abigail Adams
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"If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women." - Abigail Adams
Download our free "Founding Mothers of America" poster on our website: https://bit.ly/3up7orN
Asian American women played a critical part in America’s war effort during World War II. Coming from diverse backgrounds—including Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Filipino—they served in important roles ranging from pilots and translators to factory workers and guerrilla fighters. https://bit.ly/2PRCRUx
They worked as pilots, translators, guerrilla fighters and more.
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For the few women who braved the harsh journey to Gold Country, freedom, independence, and the chance to forge a living and identity separate from male family members beckoned them towards the west. https://bit.ly/3lJOKHF
For the few women who braved the harsh journey to Gold Country, freedom, independence, and the chance to forge a living and identity separate from male family members beckoned them towards the west.
"Economic fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic is having a harsher impact on women, who are disproportionately represented in sectors offering low wages, few benefits and the least secure jobs," said Gabriela Bucher, executive director of Oxfam International. "Instead of righting that wrong, governments treated women's jobs as dispensable -- and that has come at a cost of at least $800 billion in lost wages for those in formal employment." https://cnn.it/2PFuQSp
The fallout from the Covid-19 pandemic has been disastrous for women.
The first female dentists and dental assistants were pioneers for other women in the dental field, and unfortunately, like a well-filled cavity, are barely acknowledged. Many of these women receive little to no recognition. It is to change that inequality and shed light women trailblazers in dentistry. http://bit.ly/2ruFnAr
The first female dentists and dental assistants were pioneers for other women in the dental field, and unfortunately, like a well-filled cavity, are barely acknowledged. Many of these women receive…
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The nineteenth-century laid the foundation for myriad women's clubs and organizations that took hold in the twentieth century. In that influential century, all over America, women strengthened institutions, did battle with injustices, educated students, raised needed funds for worthy causes, and enjoyed one another's company. https://bit.ly/2EGhf84
Women joined together at a time when it was believed "woman's place is in the home." They encountered disapproval, but persevered anyway.
Congratulations to Chloe Zhao for your historic Oscar win! https://nyti.ms/3njZT2E
The filmmaker behind “Nomadland” has been winning all season long and is already at work on her next project, the superhero team-up “Eternals.”
Learn about one of the historic wedding dresses in our collection. Worn by Margaret Leola Egan, her wedding dress was made from a World War II parachute. https://bit.ly/3ndOiSL
On her wedding day, Margaret Leola Egan wore a dress made from a silk parachute.
Get to know notable women activists throughout history with our digital exhibit: https://bit.ly/3dIrwwv
#HappyEarthDay! Celebrate the day by learning how women in #SanDiego are keeping our city green and creating social change: https://youtu.be/eycEihlQnuI
Celebrate Earth Day 2021 and learn how some of San Diego’s leading urban gardeners are keeping San Diego green and creating social change.Kate Sessions, fame...
Trailblazer Steph Johnson is using her musical talent and relentless drive to help find solutions to one of the biggest problems in America; homelessness.
Five years ago, she co-founded the nonprofit "Voices of Our City Choir" and gained national recognition this past year, after the choir, which holds its weekly rehearsals in a church in one of San Diego's most underserved areas, made it to the finals of the TV show "America's Got Talent."
In this episode of "Trailblazing Women," Steph shares with Sandra Maas how music is helping San Diego's unsheltered neighbors find their voice and reconnect with the community
Known as one of US history’s singular heroes, Tubman is believed to have spent time at the cabin as a child and teenager. Surrounded by wetlands and woods, she would have had the chance to learn how to survive conditions like the ones she endured to escape slavery and eventually free dozens of other people from bondage. https://bit.ly/3v7D9Wb
Known as one of US history’s singular heroes, Tubman is believed to have spent time at the cabin as a child and teenager
In case you missed today’s talk on Kate Sessions and urban gardening you can watch the recording on our YouTube channel. https://youtu.be/eycEihlQnuI
Celebrate Earth Day 2021 and learn how some of San Diego’s leading urban gardeners are keeping San Diego green and creating social change.Kate Sessions, fame...
Childcare is infrastructure. https://bit.ly/2QHAtzO
Research on different-sex couples early in the pandemic shows that when dads took a bigger share of domestic labor, moms were more likely to stay in their jobs.
Joy Harjo is an American poet, musician, playwright, and author. She is the incumbent United States Poet Laureate, the first Native American to hold that honor. https://bit.ly/3x0jYzo
Poetry “can hold grief that’s too heavy to bear.”
#OnThisDay in #WomensHistory Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
#OnThisDay in #WomensHistory Harriet Quimby becomes the first woman to fly an airplane across the English Channel.
During the pandemic, women across America have been forced to take on increased domestic responsibilities, and teenage girls have not been spared. https://bit.ly/3dhSMo4
Women across America have taken on increased domestic responsibilities during the COVID-19 pandemic, including many teenage girls.
The power of the First Amendment allows citizens to peacefully stand together and publicly demand they be heard by people in power.
With enduring resilience and determination, women have marched throughout the history of our country to battle injustice and demand equal treatment from the United States government. Before the passage of the Nineteenth Amendment, they had that one very important right granted to all U.S. citizens that allowed their voices to be heard. https://bit.ly/328y585
From the Suffrage Marches from the turn of the century, to the Women’s March of 2017, honor the legacy of the brave women who fought for your rights. Stand up for what you believe in and create positive change in your community.
Caroline Severance was an abolitionist, suffragist, and pioneer organizer of women’s clubs, founding the first club in the East and the first in Los Angeles. https://bit.ly/3fi0kIU
Caroline Severance was an abolitionist, suffragist, and pioneer organizer of women’sclubs, founding the first club in the East and the first in Los Angeles.
LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, one of the leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal citizen and an undisputed Lakota historian, passed away on Saturday from brain cancer. She was 64. https://bit.ly/3satDj4
FT. YATES, ND—LaDonna Brave Bull Allard, one of the leaders of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe’s fight against the Dakota Access pipeline, a Standing Rock Sioux tribal citizen and an undisputed Lakota historian, passed away on Saturday from brain cancer. She was 64.
The Second-Wave of Feminism, or The Women’s Liberation Movement, was an era defined by political and personal successes of women throughout the United States. Women during the 1960s, 1970s, and the early 1980s campaigned for a variety of issues: reproductive rights, education, representation in the media, family, workplace, and violence against women. https://bit.ly/2DDLFHr
Through the years, The Women’s Liberation Movement aided women in making inroads into other professional careers, sports, and the military.
Did Gudrid Thorbjarnardóttir, the “far traveler,” really exist? And, if so, did she really set foot in the Americas 500 years before Christopher Columbus? https://bit.ly/39RMWr6
The sagas suggest she settled in Newfoundland and eventually made eight crossings of the North Atlantic Sea
#OnThisDay in #womenshistory Sacagawea joined the Corps of Discovery Expedition as an interpreter.
#OnThisDay in #womenshistory Sacagawea joined the Corps of Discovery Expedition as an interpreter.
The change came after LinkedIn faced criticism regarding their lack of flexible language for women who left the paid workforce. More than 2.3 million women have done so in the past year alone, as the COVID-19 pandemic closed schools and daycares and decimated the service-oriented businesses that employ majority-female workforces. https://bit.ly/2R7I3DT
A year into the pandemic that has decimated working women, "we need to normalize employment gaps" on LinkedIn's public resumes.
Through the centuries, the ideal female form has taken many shapes. From the strait-laced Victorians to the modern seekers of flat stomachs, the desire to change one’s appearance is dwarfed only by the myriad of objects that have been created to do so. But just what is it that would make a woman take a burning metal rod to her hair or stagger in stilettos? https://www.womensmuseumca.org/beauty-or-torture
Explore the evolution of the impossible standards of beauty that women were, in some cases, literally dying to achieve as beauty ideals shifted radically from decade to decade.
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This week's Trailblazing Woman is singer Juanita Davis. A longtime San Diegan with a voice of gold, Juanita grew up the daughter of a renowned pastor with ties to the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. She's been performing in San Diego for decades as a member of the popular trio known as "The Corvelles." Juanita is a mother, wife, actress and music therapist. In this episode of "Trailblazing Women with Sandra Maas," Juanita shares how music helps her "claim her joy" and how to use your own voice as an instrument to empower and heal.
"Women are not behind the scenes making communities, they're upfront doing and making and building the communities but people don't know that. The whole point of the hall of fame is to say 'Here is what women were doing front and center'." On this week's episode of #TrailblazingWomen Sandra Maas talks to San Diego County Women's Hall of Fame Inductees Dr. Sue Gonda and Olivia Puentes Reynolds. Together they are credited with founding the San Diego County Women’s Hall of Fame in 2001. You can register for the free online induction ceremony here: https://bit.ly/3dMW2p9
Dr. Alisha Wilkins, chair of the California Commission on the Status of Women and Girls, shares her own experiences with racism and how even as a powerful and successful woman today she often feels vulnerable because of it. Dr Wilkins shares with Sandra her thoughts on what we all can do to learn more about the issues of race and stopping racism.
A virus fighter at the top of her game... Erica Ollmann Saphire PhD is a renowned immunologist at La Jolla Institute for Immunology who is leading the worldwide fight against COVID-19. Dr Saphire is directing the Coronavirus Immunotherapy Consortium launched by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation to find potent antibodies to treat the deadly virus. So what’s it like to be in charge of saving the world? Find out in our first episode of “Trailblazing Women with Sandra Maas.”
Join us today on Instagram live at noon for Ask Our Curator with @womensmuseum Collections Director, Camille. Camille will be discussing the book History of Woman Suffrage from our archives. Leave any questions you have for her about the book and the suffrage movement in the comments and tune in to the live discussion at noon. #womenshistory #womensvote #susanbanthony #history #womenempowerment #bookstagram #askacurator #askanarchivist #museumfromhome #history #instabook #iglive #instagramlive
Sandra Maas, our newest Board Member speaks on behalf of the Women's Museum.
The Ito Sisters: An American Story, directed by Antonia Grace Glenn is the story of three Japanese American sisters in their 80's and 90's recount how their immigrant parents struggled to make a life in America at the beginning of the 20th century. The family’s chronicle is set against the backdrop of the Anti-Japanese Movement in California culminated in the forced removal and incarceration of more than 120,000 Japanese Americans. See this movie July 25th at the ArcLight Cinemas La Jolla for the WFFSD Summer Series. Purchase your tickets here: bit.ly/2JCdxxz
Don't miss a special screening of Angels in Our Midst, directed by Robin Massee, July 18th at the ArcLight Cinemas La Jolla. Angles in Our Midst is a World War II documentary that gives voice to the memories of American WWII nurses of D-Day and beyond. Angels In Our Midst features interviews with the courageous women who selflessly helped so many and were crucial in helping win the war. Robin Masses and Brian Alexander, the son of one of the nurses featured in the film will participate in a Q&A after the film screening. Purchase your tickets here: http://bit.ly/2JCdxxz
Who is the most influential woman you know? #HappyMothersDay
The latest exhibit at the Women's Museum of California will showcase the evolving styles of American wedding gowns from the 1860s to today by displaying over a dozen wedding dresses from various decades. Don't miss the opening of The Big White Dress this Friday during #FridayNightLiberty.
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Don't miss your chance to see Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of Anastasia Lin during the Women's International Film Festival San Diego this Saturday at 7:00 PM. Purchase your ticket here: http://bit.ly/2ImOskS Anastasia is declared a "persona non grata" by China, the highest form of diplomatic punishment, which bars a person from entering a country. As the Miss World 2015 competition finals are moved from Australia to Sanya, China, the beauty queen faces a difficult decision—does she continue to speak, putting her family and her own life at risk or does she fall silent, giving up her cause of speaking out about human rights atrocities in China?
The Women's International Film Festival San Diego is proud to present an early screening of the highly anticipated new documentary on Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. See the film during the opening night of the Festival, April 13th at 7:00 PM at THE LOT - Liberty Station. Purchase your ticket here: http://bit.ly/2ImOskS
Don't miss your chance to see Badass Beauty Queen: The Story of Anastasia Lin at the Women's International Film Festival San Diego! Purchase your ticket today: http://bit.ly/2ImOskS
What women from history do you wish you learned about in school? This #WomensHistoryMonth let us know why #WomensHistory is important to you by finishing the sentence: #WomensHistoryBecause...
This #WomensHistoryMonth let us know why #WomensHistory is important to you by finishing the sentence: #WomensHistoryBecause...
CBS 8 - San Diego News talked to the Women's Museum of California yesterday about our new exhibit, Beauty or Torture. Explore the lengths women go to achieve their ideal standard of beauty.
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Did you know that on average only 8% of sentences in textbooks mention women? That is why the Women's Museum of California launched the Give The Gift Of Herstory Campaign. When you donate $5 to the campaign you provide underserved schools, community organizations, and other deserving groups with a speaker from our Speakers' Bureau, a Tour of the Museum, a Historical Clothing Show, or a Traveling Exhibit. Your donation takes the Museum out into the community and allows greater access for those who might not otherwise be able to enjoy these programs. Learn how you can Give The Gift of Herstory today: https://goo.gl/jsAS7y
Give the gift of Herstory today and provide underserved schools, community organizations, or other deserving groups with a speaker from our Speakers' Bureau, a Tour of the Museum, a Historical Clothing Show, or a Traveling Exhibit. Your donation takes the Museum out into the community and allows greater access for those who might not otherwise be able to enjoy these programs. Give the gift of #Herstory here: https://goo.gl/ALy97i #WomensHistory
Women representation in film panel at #WFFSD
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The Women's Museum of California houses a collection of vintage political buttons from the Second Wave era of feminism. Through this slideshow, you can look at a small portion of that collection. #WomenInPolitcs #WomensHistory
Our mission is to educate and inspire current and future generations about the experiences and contributions of women by collecting, preserving, and interpreting the evidence of that experience. The Women's Museum of California is one of only three stand alone museums of women's history in the country.
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