Seneca Falls and the National Women’s Hall of Fame:

Celebrating Women’s Rights and Accomplishments

June 13, 2013

Seneca Falls: Where it All Began

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

Lucretia Mott Jane Hunt

Martha Coffin Wright

Mary Ann M’Clintock

Five Women Started a Revolution

A Convention for Woman’s Rights

A Movement is Born

The Fight Continues

The Facts Today• Women and girls are still underrepresented in

science and math

• About 4% of Fortune 500 company CEOs are women

• Less than 20 countries in the world currently have female heads of state

• Women still earn less money for performing the same job as a man

National Women’s Hall of Fame"We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men and

women are created equal...”

“Showcasing great women… Inspiring all!”

Our Mission

October 11th & 12th Seneca Falls, New York

Induction Weekend 2013

Betty Ford1918 - 2011

• Achievement in Humanities

• Groundbreaking First Lady of the United States

• Co-Founded the Betty Ford Center (1982)

• Presidential Medal of Freedom recipient (1991) and Congressional Gold Medal recipient (with President Gerald R. Ford,1999)

Ina May Gaskin1940 –

• Achievement in Science

• Founder of the Farm Midwifery Center (1971)

• Participated in more than 1,200 births

• Gaskin maneuver is the first obstetrical maneuver to be named after a midwife

Julie Krone1963 –

• Achievement in Athletics

• More than 3,700 career wins

• First woman to win a Triple Crown event (1993), a Breeders’ Cup event (2003), and a million-dollar event (2003)

Kate Millett1934 –

• Achievement in Arts, Humanities

• Feminist activist, writer, artist, filmmaker, teacher and human rights activist

• Author of Sexual Politics (1970)

• Director of the Millett Center for the Arts

Nancy Pelosi1940 –

• Achievement in Government

• First woman to lead a major political party in the United States as the Democratic Leader of the U.S. House of Representatives (2002)

• First female Speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives (2007-2011)

Mother Mary Joseph Rogers1882 – 1955

• Achievement in Humanities

• Founded the Maryknoll Sisters (1912), the first US based Catholic congregation of women dedicated to a global mission

• At the time of her death in 1955, there were 1,065 sisters working in twenty countries and several U.S. cities

Bernice Resnick Sandler1928 –

• Achievement in Humanities • “Godmother of Title IX”

• Filed the first charges of sex discrimination against more than 250 educational institutions

• Senior Scholar at the Women’s Research and Education Institute (Washington, DC)

Ana Jacobson Schwartz1915 – 2012

• Achievement in Business

• “One of the world’s greatest monetary scholars”

• More than seventy year career with the National Bureau of Economic Research

• Co-author of A Monetary History of the United States, 1867-1960

Emma Hart Willard1787 – 1870

• Achievement in Education • Founded Troy Female Seminary (renamed Emma Willard School in 1895)

• The school was the first in the country to provide women with an education comparable to that of a college-educated man

The Future

Current Canal ViewSeneca Knitting Mill

Historic Canal ViewSeneca Knitting Mill

“Alone we can do so little;together we can do so much.”

~ Helen Keller

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