The National Women's Hall of Fame (NWHF) is an American institution founded to honor and recognize women. It was incorporated in 1969 in Seneca Falls, New York, and first inducted honorees in 1973.[1][2] As of 2024, the Hall has honored 312 inductees.[3][4][5]
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Inductees are nominated by members of the public and selected by a panel of judges on the basis of the changes attributed to the honoree, that affect the social, economic or cultural aspects of society; the significant national or global impact; as well as, the enduring value of their achievements.[6] Induction ceremonies are held every odd- numbered year in the fall, with the names of the women to be honored announced earlier in the spring, usually during March, Women's History Month.[7][8]
The NWHF is a private 501(c)(3) non-profit organization funded by philanthropy, admissions, and other income.[3] In July 2021, Jennifer Gabriel was named executive director.[9]
Location
editThe National Women's Hall of Fame was hosted by Eisenhower College until 1979/1980, when the organization rented out a historic bank building in the Seneca Falls Historic District. The historic bank was renovated to house the NWHF's permanent exhibit, historical artifacts, and offices.[10] In August 2020, the National Women's Hall of Fame opened its door to the third and final[citation needed] home: the historic Seneca Knitting Mill, which resides across the canal of the Women's Rights National Historical Park which includes the Wesleyan Chapel where the 1848 women's rights convention took place, an event that kickstarted the women's suffrage movement in America.[11][1] This renovation and move into the historic Seneca Knitting Mill took several years to accomplish.
In 2014, the organization's board undertook a $20 million capital campaign to fund the development of the 1844 Seneca Knitting Mill, which is associated with the abolitionist movement and with the birthplace of women's rights.[11] The move and completion of Phase 1 doubled the size of the National Women's Hall of Fame. As of 2021[update] campaigning for Phase 2: an elevator, additional staircase, and other renovations was underway. Once the Homecoming Campaign is complete, the historic Seneca Knitting Mill will quadruple the available space to 16,000 square feet (1,500 m2), including exhibit space, offices, and meeting space for conferences, wedding receptions, and community events.[11]
Inductees
editA–J
edit- Faye Glenn Abdellah
- Bella Abzug
- Abigail Adams
- Jane Addams
- Madeleine Albright
- Tenley Albright
- Louisa May Alcott
- Florence E. Allen
- Gloria Allred
- Linda Alvarado
- Dorothy H. Andersen
- Marian Anderson
- Ethel Percy Andrus
- Maya Angelou
- Susan B. Anthony
- Virginia Apgar
- Ella Baker
- Lucille Ball
- Ann Bancroft
- Clara Barton
- Eleanor K. Baum
- Ruth Fulton Benedict
- Mary McLeod Bethune
- Antoinette Blackwell
- Elizabeth Blackwell
- Emily Blackwell
- Amelia Bloomer
- Nellie Bly
- Louise Bourgeois
- Margaret Bourke-White
- Lydia Moss Bradley
- Myra Bradwell
- Mary Carson Breckinridge
- Ruby Bridges
- Nancy Brinker
- Gwendolyn Brooks
- Pearl S. Buck
- Betty Bumpers
- Charlotte Bunch
- Octavia Butler[4]
- St. Frances Xavier Cabrini
- Mary Steichen Calderone
- Annie Jump Cannon
- Rachel Carson
- Eleanor Rosalynn Smith Carter
- Mary Ann Shadd Cary
- Mary Cassatt
- Willa Cather
- Carrie Chapman Catt
- Judy Chicago
- Julia Child
- Lydia Maria Child
- Shirley Chisholm
- Hillary Clinton
- Jacqueline Cochran
- Mildred Cohn
- Bessie Coleman
- Eileen Collins
- Ruth Colvin
- Rita Rossi Colwell
- Joan Ganz Cooney
- Mother Marianne Cope
- Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
- Jane Cunningham Croly
- Matilda Cuomo
- Angela Davis
- Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
- Dorothy Day
- Marian de Forest
- Donna de Varona
- Karen DeCrow
- Sarah Deer
- Emma Smith DeVoe
- Emily Dickinson
- Dorothea Dix
- Elizabeth Hanford Dole
- Marjory Stoneman Douglas
- St. Katharine Drexel
- Anne Dallas Dudley
- Mary Barret Dyer
- Amelia Earhart
- Sylvia A. Earle
- Catherine Shipe East
- Crystal Eastman
- Mary Baker Eddy
- Marian Wright Edelman
- Gertrude Ederle
- Gertrude Belle Elion
- Dorothy Harrison Eustis
- Alice C. Evans
- Geraldine Ferraro
- Ella Fitzgerald
- Jane Fonda
- Betty Ford
- Loretta C. Ford
- Abby Kelley Foster
- Aretha Franklin
- Helen Murray Free
- Betty Friedan
- Margaret Fuller
- Matilda Joslyn Gage
- Ina May Gaskin
- Althea Gibson
- Lillian Moller Gilbreth
- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
- Ruth Bader Ginsburg
- Maria Goeppert Mayer
- Katharine Graham
- Martha Graham
- Temple Grandin
- Ella T. Grasso
- Marcia Greenberger
- Martha Wright Griffiths
- Sarah Grimké
- Angelina Emily Grimke Weld
- Mary Hallaren
- Rebecca S. Halstead
- Fannie Lou Hamer
- Alice Hamilton
- Mia Hamm
- Lorraine Hansberry
- Joy Harjo
- Martha Matilda Harper
- Patricia Roberts Harris
- Helen Hayes
- Dorothy Height
- Beatrice Hicks
- Barbara Hillary
- Oveta Culp Hobby
- Barbara Holdridge
- Billie Holiday
- Wilhelmina Cole Holladay
- Jeanne Holm
- Bertha Holt
- Grace Murray Hopper
- Julia Ward Howe
- Emily Howland
- Dolores Huerta
- Helen LaKelly Hunt
- Swanee Hunt
- Zora Neale Hurston
- Anne Hutchinson
- Barbara Iglewski
- Shirley Ann Jackson
- Victoria Jackson
- Mary Jacobi
- Frances Wisebart Jacobs
- Mae Jemison
- Katherine Johnson
- Barbara Rose Johns
- Mary Harris Jones
- Barbara Jordan
K–Z
edit- Helen Keller
- Leontine T. Kelly
- Susan Kelly-Dreiss
- Frances Oldham Kelsey
- Nannerl Keohane
- Jean Kilbourne
- Billie Jean King
- Coretta Scott King
- Julie Krone
- Elisabeth Kübler-Ross
- Maggie Kuhn
- Stephanie L. Kwolek
- Henrietta Lacks
- Susette La Flesche
- Winona LaDuke
- Carlotta Walls LaNier
- Dorothea Lange
- Sherry Lansing
- Allie B. Latimer
- Emma Lazarus
- Lilly Ledbetter
- Mildred Robbins Leet
- Maya Lin
- Anne Morrow Lindbergh
- Patricia Locke
- Belva Lockwood
- Juliette Gordon Low
- Clare Boothe Luce
- Shannon W. Lucid
- Mary Lyon
- Mary Mahoney
- Nicole Malachowski
- Wilma Mankiller
- Philippa Marrack
- Barbara McClintock
- Katharine Dexter McCormick
- Louise McManus
- Margaret Mead
- Barbara Mikulski
- Kate Millett
- Patsy Takemoto Mink
- Maria Mitchell
- Toni Morrison
- Constance Baker Motley
- Lucretia Mott
- Kate Mullany
- Aimee Mullins
- Carol Mutter
- Indra Nooyi
- Antonia Novello
- Sandra Day O'Connor
- Georgia O'Keeffe
- Rose O'Neill
- Annie Oakley
- Michelle Obama
- Rosa Parks
- Ruth Patrick
- Alice Paul
- Nancy Pelosi
- Mary Engle Pennington
- Frances Perkins
- Rebecca Talbot Perkins
- Esther Peterson
- Judith L. Pipher
- Jeannette Rankin
- Janet Reno
- Ellen Swallow Richards
- Linda Richards
- Sally Ride
- Rozanne L. Ridgway
- Edith Nourse Rogers
- Mary Joseph Rogers
- Eleanor Roosevelt
- Ernestine Louise Potowski Rose
- Sister Elaine Roulet
- Janet Rowley
- Wilma Rudolph
- Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin
- Mary Harriman Rumsey
- Florence Sabin
- Sacagawea
- Bernice Sandler
- Margaret Sanger
- Katherine Siva Saubel
- Betty Bone Schiess
- Ann Schonberger
- Patricia Schroeder
- Anna Schwartz
- Felice N. Schwartz
- Blanche Stuart Scott
- Florence B. Seibert
- Elizabeth Ann Seton
- Donna Shalala
- Anna Howard Shaw
- Catherine Filene Shouse
- Eunice Mary Kennedy Shriver
- Muriel Siebert
- Beverly Sills
- Louise Slaughter
- Eleanor Smeal
- Bessie Smith
- Margaret Chase Smith
- Sophia Smith
- Hannah Greenebaum Solomon
- Susan Solomon
- Sonia Sotomayor
- Laurie Spiegel
- Elizabeth Cady Stanton
- Gloria Steinem
- Helen Stephens
- Nettie Stevens
- Lucy Stone
- Kate Stoneman
- Harriet Beecher Stowe
- Harriet Williams Russell Strong
- Anne Sullivan
- Kathrine Switzer
- Henrietta Szold
- Mary Burnett Talbert
- Maria Tallchief
- Ida Tarbell
- Helen Brooke Taussig
- Mary Church Terrell
- Sojourner Truth
- Harriet Tubman
- Wilma Vaught
- Diane von Furstenberg
- Florence Schorske Wald
- Lillian Wald
- Madam C. J. Walker
- Mary Edwards Walker
- Emily Howell Warner
- Mercy Otis Warren
- Alice Waters
- Faye Wattleton
- Annie Dodge Wauneka
- Ida Wells-Barnett
- Eudora Welty
- Edith Wharton
- Sheila E. Widnall
- Emma Willard
- Frances Willard
- Serena Williams
- Oprah Winfrey
- Sarah Winnemucca
- Flossie Wong-Staal
- Victoria Woodhull
- Fanny Wright
- Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
- Chien-Shiung Wu
- Rosalyn Yalow
- Gloria Yerkovich
- Mildred "Babe" Didrikson Zaharias
References
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- ^ "Feminists Start Hall of Fame", Los Angeles Times, August 27, 1973, p. I-5
- ^ a b "Frequently Asked Questions". National Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on April 7, 2022. Retrieved May 7, 2021.
- ^ a b "2021 Induction". National Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on December 23, 2021. Retrieved December 23, 2021.
- ^ "Discover the Women of the Hall | Women of the Hall". Retrieved May 20, 2024.
- ^ "18 Nominees Chosen for National Women's Hall of Fame". Christian Science Monitor. September 15, 1995. ISSN 0882-7729. Archived from the original on December 2, 2021. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ "2017 Induction Weekend". National Women's Hall of Fame. Archived from the original on January 6, 2019. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ "Now Streaming Live: The National Women's Hall of Fame Inducts Victoria Jackson - Mother, Entrepreneur, Innovator, Author, and Philanthropist". The Guthy-Jackson Charitable Foundation. Archived from the original on January 22, 2018. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ Day, Lucas. "Ithaca Native Named New Executive Director of Women's Hall of Fame". Finger Lakes Daily News. Archived from the original on July 20, 2021. Retrieved December 4, 2021.
- ^ Buchanan, Paul D. (2009). The American Women's Rights Movement: A Chronology of Events and of Opportunities from 1600 to 2008. Branden Books. ISBN 9780828321600. Archived from the original on August 6, 2020. Retrieved January 22, 2018.
- ^ a b c Shaw, David L. (May 4, 2015). "A Conversation With: Jill Tietjen, CEO of National Women's Hall of Fame". Finger Lakes Times. Archived from the original on May 29, 2019. Retrieved June 3, 2018.