{"id":17597,"date":"2022-03-08T13:03:37","date_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:03:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/womens-history-month\/"},"modified":"2022-03-08T13:03:37","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T18:03:37","slug":"womens-history-month","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/womens-history-month\/","title":{"rendered":"Women&#8217;s History Month"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Today &#8212; March 8 &#8212;\u00a0 is International Women&#8217;s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. The month of March is recognized as Women&#8217;s History Month in the United States, a time where we encourage the study and celebration of the vital role women have played in American history.<\/p>\n<p>From the women who led the Civil Rights Movement (i.e., Ella Baker, Leah Chase, etc.) through more recent strides forward, such as the U.S. Women&#8217;s National Soccer Team&#8217;s recent $24 million settlement building on the 1963 Equal Pay Act, women continue to pave the way forward. Here are some more women who have made significant contributions to American history:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Eunice Newton Foote, graduate of Troy Female Seminary (Emma Willard School), was the first person to predict that carbon dioxide in the atmosphere would lead to a warmer earth (i.e. global warming).<\/li>\n<li>Ketanji Brown Jackson was nominated last month to serve on the U.S. Supreme Court and should become the first black woman to sit on the nation&#8217;s highest court.<\/li>\n<li>Kalpana Chawla, an astronaut and engineer, was the first woman of Indian descent to fly into space.<\/li>\n<li>Sylvia Rivera, a Venezuelan-Puerto Rican trans woman, was a pioneer in LGBT activism and is often credited as the person who put the &#8220;t&#8221; in LGBT.<\/li>\n<li>Christine Sun Kim is an artist that advocates for deaf culture through her work, making connections between music, American Sign Language, and linguistics.<\/li>\n<li>Wilma Mankiller was the first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, creating a job center, increasing tribal health clinics, providing summer programs for youth and adult literacy, and so much more.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>As you can see, women have been instrumental in pushing society forward in ways that benefit all of us, and they will continue to do so in the future.<\/p>\n<p>In solidarity,<\/p>\n<p>Kayla Miller<br \/>\nTechnical Assistant<br \/>\nOffice of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion<br \/>\n<a href=\"mailto:k.miller1@hvcc.edu\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">k.miller1@hvcc.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Published:<\/strong>\u00a0Tue, 08 Mar 2022 13:03:37 +0000 by\u00a0k.miller1<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Today &#8212; March 8 &#8212;\u00a0 is International Women&#8217;s Day, a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2086,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[161],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-student-announcement-college-related"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2086"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/chronicle.hvcc.edu\/wpdev\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}