The Past Speaks

In honour of the 100th International Women’s Day, I thought that I would share some links related to women’s history.

The first is to a podcast by Alice Kessler-Harris, who is the R. Gordon Hoxie Professor of American History at Columbia University, in New York City. She specializes in the history of American labour and the comparative and interdisciplinary exploration of women and gender. The title of this talk is “The Quest for Equality: Women 1865 to the Present”.

The second is to a section of the UN website with information on the history of IWD, which was first observed by German Social Democrats in 1911.

The third is a story in the Vancouver Sun on the gains women have made in the last century.