{"id":210,"date":"2011-03-11T14:38:03","date_gmt":"2011-03-11T19:38:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/11\/womens-history-month\/"},"modified":"2011-04-20T08:28:46","modified_gmt":"2011-04-20T13:28:46","slug":"womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/11\/womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Womens History Month: Our history is our strength"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Flickr\/Library of Congress image-Woman Working In Factory\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/2179223646\/\"><img src=\"http:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/files\/2011\/03\/womaninfactory.jpg\" alt=\"Woman Working In Factory\" align=\"left\" \/><\/a>March is Women\u2019s History Month.\u00a0 An overview of the <a title=\"Women's History Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.loc.gov\/law\/help\/commemorative-observations\/women_history.php\">legal origin<\/a> of this celebration is available from the Law Library of Congress.\u00a0 Here, copies of the 19th Amendment, relevant Congressional Resolutions and Presidential Proclamations, and some recent public laws, are available for viewing.\u00a0 The 2011 Presidential Proclamation is available from the White House <a title=\"Presidential Proclamation\" href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/the-press-office\/2011\/02\/28\/presidential-proclamation-womens-history-month-2011\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Other good sources of information include the <a title=\"National Women's History Project\" href=\"http:\/\/www.nwhp.org\/\">National Women\u2019s History Project<\/a> and <a title=\"Women's History Month\" href=\"http:\/\/www.womenshistorymonth.gov\/\">www.womenshistorymonth.gov<\/a>, where 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 \u201cjoin in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several databases are available through the Cornell University Library that focus on women\u2019s issues (IP authentication required), including <a title=\"Genderwatch\" href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=3469540&amp;DB=local\">Genderwatch<\/a> (\u201cIn-depth coverage of the subjects that are uniquely central to women\u2019s lives, including family, childbirth, birth control, daycare, domestic abuse, work and the workplace, sexual harassment, aging, aging parents, body image, eating disorders and social and societal roles.\u201d);\u00a0 <a title=\"Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts\" href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=5383569&amp;DB=local\">Studies on Women and Gender Abstracts<\/a> (\u201cIndexes books and journal articles on education, employment, women in the family, medicine and health, gender role socialization, social policy, the social psychology of women, female culture, media treatment of women, biography, literary criticism and historical studies.\u201d); and <a title=\"Women's Studies International\" href=\"https:\/\/catalog.library.cornell.edu\/cgi-bin\/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=6835191&amp;DB=local\">Women\u2019s Studies International<\/a> (\u201cProvides citations and some abstracts to the core areas of Women&#8217;s studies.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p><em>Image from the Library of Congress&#8217; <a title=\"Library of Congress Flickr stream\" href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/library_of_congress\/2179223646\/\">Flickr stream<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>March is Women\u2019s History Month.\u00a0 An overview of the legal origin of this celebration is available from the Law Library of Congress.\u00a0 Here, copies of the 19th Amendment, relevant Congressional Resolutions and Presidential Proclamations, and some recent public laws, are available for viewing.\u00a0 The 2011 Presidential Proclamation is available from the White House here.\u00a0 Other <a href='https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/2011\/03\/11\/womens-history-month\/'>[&#8230;]<\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":32,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[324],"tags":[326,318],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/32"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":266,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210\/revisions\/266"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.law.cornell.edu\/library\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}