C.A.P Commencement Achievement Program

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C.A.PCommencement Achievement Program

• Achieving Diversity Through Student Success
• By Pamela Nogales-Rodriguez
• Peer Navigator and Student
• Green River Community College

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Womens History Month
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Did You Know

• Before 1970, women's history was rarely the
  subject of serious study.
• In the early nineteenth century, women in the
  United States were considered second-class
  citizens.
• It was expected that women be obedient wives,
  never to hold a thought or opinion independent of
  their husbands.

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Overview

• From women's involvement within the abolition
  movements women became aware of male dominance
  and oppression.
• In the late 1960s and early 1970s, feminist
  movements, such as the one in the United States
  substantially changed the condition of women in
  the Western world.

http//www.feminist.com/
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History

• First-wave feminism refers to a period of
  feminist during the nineteenth century and early
  twentieth century. It focused primarily on
  gaining the right of women's suffrage.
• Second-wave feminism began to be used to describe
  a newer feminist movement that focused as much on
  fighting social and cultural inequalities as
  further political inequalities.
• http//www.feminist.com/

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Womens History Leaders
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• Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1815 1902)
• An American social activist and leading figure of
  the early woman's movement.
• Her Declaration of Sentiments presented at the
  first women's rights convention held in 1848 in
  Seneca Falls New York.
• It is often credited with initiating the first
  organized woman's rights and woman's suffrage
  movements in the United States.
• http//www.wikipedia.org

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Susan B. Anthony ( 1820 1906)

• A prominent American civil rights leader who
  played a pivotal role in the 19th century women's
  rights movement to introduce women's suffrage
  into the United States.
• She traveled the United States and Europe and
  gave 75 to 100 speeches per year on women's
  rights for 45 years.

http//www.wikipedia.org
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ALICE PAUL 1885-1977

• Drafted the Equal Rights Amendment for women in
  1923.
• She was the one added the affirmation of gender
  equality to the United Nations

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Mary Ann Shadd Cary (1823-1893)

• In 1869 she became the first Black woman to enter
  Howard University Law School,
• She became the first Black woman to earn a law
  degree.
• She fought alongside Susan B. Anthony for womens
  suffrage.
• She was the first Black woman to cast a vote in a
  national election.

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Sandra Day OConnor (1930)

• She was the first woman appointed to the U.S.
  Supreme Court.
• http//www.wikipedia.org

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Alice Walker (1944)

• Alice Walker is an award-winning writer, activist
  and self-proclaimed Womanist.
• The voices she brings to life in her novels,
  short stories and poems helped educate and
  inspire readers.
• She has written at length on issues of race and
  gender, and is most famous for the critically
  acclaimed novel The Color Purple

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Mother Teresa (1910-1997)

• She was an Albanian Roman Catholic nun with
  Indian citizenship.
• Who founded the Missionaries of Charity in
  Kolkata (Calcutta), India in 1950.
• For over 45 years she ministered to the poor,
  sick, orphaned, and dying, while guiding the
  Missionaries of Charity's expansion, first
  throughout India and then in other countries.

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Ellen Lee DeGeneres (1958)

• She is an eleven-time Emmy Award-winning American
  stand-up comedienne, television hostess and
  actress.
• In 1997, during the fourth season of Ellen, she
  came out publicly as a lesbian in an appearance
  on The Oprah Winfrey Show.

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Isabel Allende Llona (1942)

• She is a Chilean novelist.
• Allende, whose works sometimes contain aspects
  of the "magic realist" tradition, is one of the
  first successful women novelists in Latin
  America.
• She is largely famous for her contributions to
  Latin-American literature.

http//www.wikipedia.org
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Kristi Yamaguchi1(1971)

• Olympic gold medal, figure skating, 1992
  artistic interpretation.
• First athlete of Asian descent to win the Olympic
  Gold medal in figure skating.

http//www.wikipedia.org