Sublime

Are you ready yet to help save the world? I truly believe our hope for the future lies with powerful women: women who know who they are and express that in the world, women who speak up instead of holding their tongues, women who do what they fear instead of staying where it’s safe, women who are financially responsible and economically independent

established the President’s Commission on the Status of Women,

Here at last was Motherhood, and though it was not for all of them personally, it might—if the power was inherited—found here a new race.

Baker embraced the organizing tradition, resisted the emphasis on one charismatic leader, and called on activists to adopt a groupcentered model. Baker’s inclusive vision—one that created space for leaders regardless of age, gender, class, education, or race—informed her efforts to help launch SNCC with student activists at Shaw University.18 Indee

Thirty years later, Perkins would be appointed by President Franklin Roosevelt as secretary of labor—the first woman member of a presidential cabinet. Appalled by what she witnessed at the Triangle fire, and how preventable the deaths could have been had the employees had better working conditions—as simple as fire escapes and unlocked doors—Perkin

Campaigning for the ten-hour day, the Lowell Female Labor Reform Association presented petitions to the Massachusetts State Legislature in 1843 and 1844. When the Legislature agreed to hold public hearings, the Lowell women acquired the distinction of winning the very first investigation of labor conditions by a government body in the history of th