Courage - RESOURCES
Supporting Gender Equality
“I had rather… make history than write it. —Susan B. Anthony
"Men and women are like right and left hands; it doesn't make sense not to use both." —Jeannette Rankin
"I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality." —Alice Paul
"The best protection any woman can have... is courage." —Elizabeth Cady Stanton
In America, a woman of color is paid 63 cents for an hour of the same work the average white male is paid.
Since the dawn of western civilization, women have been treated as second class citizens.
In America, even though our principles are founded on liberty and individual freedoms, it took almost 150 years before women could vote. Still today in the United States, in many ways, women are not treated equally. Only a hundred years ago, a woman risked going to jail, losing her children, and experiencing physical violence just to declare her right to vote.
The women who confidently risk it all for the simple God-given right to be treated as equal are the definition of courage.
“On average, women do seven years more of unpaid work than men over their lifetimes.”
Here are some excellent resources for more information on how you can help to create and support women’s rights in our world.
United States House of Representatives website featuring a history of the women’s rights movement.
Women’s Rights National Historic Park in NY State: The 1848 Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convention marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States. The Convention recruited supporters and included many action steps to advance the movement.
The American Civil Liberties Union: Gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.
Planned Parenthood remains a trusted provider of reproductive health care. They promote the ability of all individuals to lead fulfilled lives, build healthy families, and make informed decisions through high-quality health services, education, and advocacy.
Suffragette City 100 is a non-partisan multimedia historic timeline countdown. It celebrates the 100th Anniversary of the 19th Amendment by retelling the epic saga of the 144 year fight for the women's right to vote from 1776 to 1920, and its intertwining with the abolitionist movement as well as advancing the causes of civil, labor, and human rights.
Here’s a great guide on the 19th Amendment and the Women’s Suffrage Movement.
The Harriet Tubman Museum building is located on a block that anti-slavery activists called home in Cape May, New Jersey. Lafayette Street and Franklin Street became a center of abolitionist activity centered around three important buildings developed in 1846. Harriet Tubman lived in Cape May in the early 1850s, working to help fund her missions to guide enslaved people to freedom.
Online since 2013, here’s an unofficial clearing house for suffrage information.
The official site commemorating 100 years of women’s right to vote.
Suffrage100MA is dedicated to commemorating the 100th anniversary of the adoption of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1920, prohibiting the federal and state governments from denying citizens the right to vote on the basis of sex.
Monumental Women was officially created as an all-volunteer, not-for-profit organization in 2014 with the initial goal of breaking the bronze ceiling and creating the first statue of real women in Central Park’s 166-year history. The Park has statues of Alice in Wonderland, Mother Goose, Juliet with Romeo, witches, nymphs, and angels – but no real women…until now. Their monument of Women’s Rights Pioneers Sojourner Truth, Susan B. Anthony, and Elizabeth Cady Stanton were unveiled on August 26, 2020.
“Take a Ride” is a wonderful song about Harriet Tubman by Jonathan Sprout and Dave Kinnoin
National Women’s History Museum has a mission to tell the stories of women who transformed the United States. Their goal is to become the first museum in any nation’s capital to show the full scope of the history of its women. Together, we can build a physical space to experience, understand, and amplify the pivotal role women play throughout history.
Women’s History Month - The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in commemorating and encouraging the study, observance and celebration of the vital role of women in American history.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Byway - Experience Tubman’s story through the road trip known as the Tubman Byway. This self-guided, scenic driving tour includes more than 30 sites, many of them with outdoor markers or interpretive signs that share the story of that place, and winds for 125 miles through Dorchester and Caroline Counties on Maryland’s Eastern Shore before continuing another 98 miles into Delaware and ending in Philadelphia, where Tubman first found freedom.
The Equal Rights Amendment is a proposed amendment to the United States Constitution designed to guarantee equal legal rights for all American citizens regardless of sex. It seeks to end the legal distinctions between men and women in terms of divorce, property, employment, and other matters.
Here’s information about women’s rights in America, an important movement in women’s history.
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad National Historical Park - The Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Visitor Center houses permanent exhibits, a film, restrooms, a museum store, an information desk, and a research library, and it serves as the park’s primary visitor destination. Its design concept, “The View North,” symbolizes the importance of moving northward, away from slavery and into the possibilities of freedom; a quiet, open legacy garden offers walking paths for meditation and reflection.