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Women’s History Month is a great time to share stories of inspiring women with the girls and boys in your life. For more information on Women’s History Month check out the National Women’s History Project, a wonderful website. Not only can’t you find great sources for students, teachers, and parents, but you can learn about:

• Women’s History Month
• Great Women Who Changed History
• International Women’s Day

More resources on Women’s History Month:

• The History Channel
• Time Magazine for Kids
• About.com
• SocialStudies.com

A terrific book to share with older children is Lighting the Way: Nine Women Who Changed Modern America written by Al Gore’s daughter, Karenna Gore Schiff. In this highly readable, illuminating narrative that spans the 20th century, Schiff tells the remarkable stories of nine influential women. These women recognized our country wasn’t living up to its promise and fought to alter it.

The women she’s selected - like Dr. Helen Rodriguez-Trias, an activist for reproductive rights (pictured here) - are as varied as they are inspirational:

• Ida B. Wells-Barnett, who was born a slave and fought against lynching
• Mother Jones, an Irish immigrant who organized coal miners and campaigned against child labor
• Alice Hamilton, who pushed for regulation of industrial toxins
• Frances Perkins, who established our social security program
• Virginia Durr, a high society Southern belle who fought the poll tax and segregation
• Septima Clark, who helped to register black voters
• Dolores Huerta, who organized farm workers

These women serve as a guiding light for activists and leaders of today and tomorrow, as well as our daughters and sons.

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