INCLUSIONADO CELEBRATES
March is Women’s History Month. It was established in 1987 because often women’s experiences and contributions to society have gone unnoticed, are undervalued, and aren’t included in traditional history texts, and yet 50.5% of the global population are women.
Women's History Month
Let’s celebrate Women’s History Month by learning more about women who have impacted history, science, and politics or learning about women’s social issues and unresolved challenges. Here are some recommendations and some facts about women in the U.S.
A Luta Continua: The Struggle Continues
Women have always been at the forefront of their liberation. Every advancement has been hard-won. Here are links to some of the ongoing dynamic global movements, for women by women.
Me too Movement #MeToo a social movement against sexual abuse, sexual harassment, and rape culture, in which people publicize their experiences of sexual abuse or sexual harassment.
Women’s March The mission of Women’s March is to harness the political power of diverse women and their communities to create transformative social change.
Bring Back our Girls Women advocating for speedy and effective search and rescue of all our abducted girls and for a rapid containment and quelling of insurgency in Nigeria.
#MahsaAmini A protest sparked by the death of Mahsa Amini in police custody.
Did You Know?
The U.S. ranks 55th worldwide for maternal mortality. In the US, the percentage of women who die from childbirth is the highest of any industrialized country in the world.
Black and Native American/Alaskan Native women are three times as likely to die in the US during childbirth as white women. Most of these deaths are considered preventable.
Currently three of the nine US Supreme Court Justices are women which is a big shift from the historic trend. Of the 117 US Supreme Court Justices appointed since its founding in 1789, six have been women.
While there is reason to celebrate that overall Congress is more diverse than ever, take a look at the U.S. Senate. Of the 100 US Senators currently serving, only 25 are women. Within that group of 25 Senators who are women, there are no Black or Native American women and only one Hispanic woman Senator.
Of the 50 U.S. Governors, only 12 are women. No state has ever elected a Black or Native American woman as governor. New Mexico has elected the only two Mexican American women to ever serve as a US governor: Susan Martinez (2011-2019) and Michelle Grisham is currently serving.
Of the 500 CEOs heading Fortune 500 companies, only 8.8% are women, which is a total of 44. Of those 44 women CEOs, only 2 are Black women. (2022) Above Board July 27, 2022
Of the leadership positions at the top 130 U.S. universities, 22% are women. Of the top earners within the research universities, 24% are women, but only 2% are women of color. Academes’ Sticky Pay-Parity Problem, February 24, 2021 Colleen Flaherty, Inside Higher Ed.
Overall women earn approximately 82 cents for every dollar a white male earns in the US, and yet: Black women earn 58 cents, Hispanic women earn 56 cents and Native women earn 51 cents compared to the dollar a white male earns.
YouTube Videos & Documentaries & TV
Alaska Daily – 2022 TV series about investigative journalists uncovering the reasons the many cases of missing and murdered Native American women are unsolved. Although fiction, this series brings forward the reality that Native American women are murdered in some areas of the U.S. at rates as high as 10 times that of the general population.Alaska Daily Season 1 Trailer
The Business of Being Born Compelled to find answers after a disappointing birth experience with her first child, actress Ricki Lake recruits filmmaker Abby Epstein to explore the maternity care system in America. OFFICIAL TRAILER: More Business of Being Born
Maria Tallchief – Osage Native and America’s 1st Prima Ballerina: Hidden Figures Brief summary a Native American dancer’s life and experience as a US prima ballerina. Maria Tallchief—Osage Native And America’s First Prima Ballerina: Hidden Figuras
Marian Wright Edelman Interview with founder of Children’s Defense Fund who advocated to end childhood poverty in the US. Reflections from a lifetime fighting to end child poverty | Marian Wright Edelman
Live to Lead 2022 Extraordinary leaders reflect on their legacies and share messages of courage, compassion, humility, hope and generosity. The series features Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Gloria Steinem, Jacinda Ardern, Greta Thunberg and more Live to Lead | Official Trailer | Netflix
Movies
Bombshell 2019 Rated R Story of how some women at Fox News exposed the sexual harassment by Roger Ailes and the pushback they get for doing so.Bombshell (2019 Movie) New Trailer — Charlize Theron, Nicole Kidman, Margot Robbie
Captain Marvel 2019 An extraterrestrial Kree warrior finds herself caught in the middle of an intergalactic battle between her people and the Skrulls. Marvel Studios’ Captain Marvel – Official Trailer
Pachinko 2022 Apple TV series. The Korean-American woman writer and producer Soo Hugh turned Min Jin Lee’s 2017 book Pachinko into a TV series, also called Pachinko. This is the saga of a Korean woman and her family over four decades beginning in 1915. Pachinko — Official Trailer | Apple TV+
Harriet 2019 PG13 The extraordinary tale of Harriet Tubman, her escape from slavery and her determination that led to the freeing of hundreds of slaves. HARRIET | Official Trailer | Now Playing
Hidden Figures 2016 PG Inspiring story of 3 African American women (Katherine Johnson, Dorothy Vaughan and Mary Jackson) who work in key roles at NASA in the 1960s. Starring Taraji Henson, Janelle Monae, Octavia Spencer. Hidden Figures | Official Trailer [HD] | 20th Century FOX
Ms. Marvel 2022 Kamala Khan, a.k.a. Ms. Marvel, is a Muslim Pakistani-American teenager from New Jersey. She possesses latent Inhuman lineage activated by the Terrigen Bomb. MS. MARVEL “Superpowers” TV Spot (NEW, 2022)
On the Basis of Sex 2018 PG-13 The origin story of Ruth Bader Ginsberg’s emergence as a female lawyer and her journey to the U.S. Supreme Court.ON THE BASIS OF SEX | Official Trailer | Focus Features
Real Women Have Curves 2003 One of the first Latina directors, Patricia Cardoso directed this film (based on a Josefina Lopez play) about a young Latina’s struggle to find her independence. Real Women Have Curves (2002) – Trailer
Books
The Sky is for Everyone 2022 Viginia Trimble & David Weintraub A compilation of autobiographies of women astronomers from around the globe who broke down barriers and changed the field of astronomy.
Phenomenal Woman: Four Poems Celebrating Women – A collection of beloved poems about women from the iconic Maya Angelou
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot About a Black woman in the 1950s whose cells were taken without her consent and have been used to build medical empires.
Articles & News
Women in Science and Engineering
Women in the U.S. Congress 2022
2022 US State Court Women Judges
16 Defining Moments for Gender Equality in 2021
MacKenzie Scott is Shaking Up Philanthropy’s Traditions. 1/10/23 Andrew Connelly npr.org
