The GFWC Antelope-North County Women’s Club would like us all to celebrate the positive women roles models for our children. The National Women’s Project is the widely recognized number one resource for information about women’s history. The NWHP coordinates observances of National Women’s History Month throughout the Country. We are lucky that the National Women’s History Project is located near us in Santa Rosa. This year’s the Emphasis is on Women’s Art.
Nobel Science Prizes, the ultimate prize for chemistry and physics and medicine have been awarded to 11 women and with one woman awarded two. Marie Curie won one Nobel Prize in chemistry (1911) and one in physics (1903) with her daughter, Irene Joliot Curie also receiving a Nobel Prize for chemistry (1935). How many of the other women who have been awarded the Nobel Prize can you name? The last woman to be awarded a Science Nobel Prize was Linda B. Black for Physiology (2004) for her work on the sense of smell.
The NWHP encourages us to find out about our own mothers, grandmothers and even our great grandmothers so that we can understand more about their lives, their successes and challenges. The aim is to better understand our lives and the challenges we face in this world. When we can see the achievements and successes of the women in our families we see self-esteem in girls and more respect from the men in our families. This can lead to higher achievements by girls in school and less violence against women.
The GFWC encourages women to obtain their own histories. The members of the GFWC Club in Cool, CA have been working toward the goal of obtaining an oral history of all their older members and have published the history of their oldest member. Our March 8th meeting is at Perko’s Café at 1:30 pm. Please join us and learn more about National Women’s History Month and the NWHP. Call Dori at 332-7133 or e-mail us at antelopeCFWC@comcast.net.