Category: Newsletter
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50 Years of Title IX
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Title IX, which celebrated its 50th anniversary on June 23, changed everything for male and female athletes in…
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Roe v. Wade Overturned: Potential Effects on Working Women
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There are many ways that the elimination of a national right to abortion might adversely affect the lives…
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Remembering Helen Marie Ramirez-Odell
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Recently, Working Women’s History Project lost one of our beloved board members — Helen Ramirez-Odell. Helen, in 1995, was…
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Rebecca Sive: A Woman with a Mission
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Rebecca Sive’s mission is to encourage ordinary women to join the public sphere and to pursue their dreams…
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Rochelle Jackson: Advocate of the North Lawndale Community
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Born in North Lawndale, Rochelle Jackson is a pillar of her neighborhood. She has spent nearly thirty years…
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The 50th Anniversary of Eisenstadt v. Baird
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March 22, 2022 marks the 50th anniversary of Eisenstadt v. Baird. This Supreme Court ruling held that single people had…
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Remembering Lillie Petty (1945–2022)
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Lillie Petty, a longtime Chicago labor and community activist, passed away on February 22, 2022.
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Alma Washington named Chicago Federation of Labor 2022 Woman of the Year
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On March 1, WWHP board member Alma Washington accepted the Chicago Federation of Labor 2022 Woman of the…
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Vanguard: How Black Women Broke Barriers, Won the Vote, and Insisted on Equality For All
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In her new book, Professor of History at Johns Hopkins University and President of the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians,…
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Introducing Ada S. McKinley: An Unsung Hero and Social Reformer
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As a young African American born shortly following the abolishment of American slavery, Ada Sophia McKinley engaged in…