In 1970, the New York Times published a feature story on the revolutionary Puerto Rican organization the Young Lords. The article noted the unusual gender dynamics at play and claimed that the women among the group’s membership may be “the most liberated women in town.” One of the leaders, Iris Morales, was quoted as saying,…

As Senator Kamala Harris prepares for the upcoming vice-presidential debate with Vice President Mike Pence, our minds turn to other women who have vied for the Veep spot. The Center for Women’s History special installation, What Women Can Do for America: Geraldine Ferraro and the 1984 Presidential Campaign, explores the story of one of these…

The Center for Women’s History mourns the passing of legal titan and hometown luminary, Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg. For some time, we have been deep into research and preparations for a museum exhibition in her honor planned for next year, and wanted to share the audio recording from a 2014 public program at…

Have you completed the U.S. Census? October 31 is the last day you can do so at https://my2020census.gov/.   Women have been counted since the first Census in 1790, but the kind of information recorded about them has changed, as have the roles they have played carrying out the census. In honor of the 2020 Census,…

Women March, the immersive New-York Historical exhibition about 200 years of women’s activism and organizing, demonstrates that collective action begins when just one person confronts injustice, and then another joins her, and then another. The exhibition, which visitors will be able to visit when the New-York Historical Society reopens on Sept. 11, features a digital…