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Thursday, March 10, 1988 / University Daily Kansan
Women's role across history being celebrated this month
By Kathleen Faddis
Kansan staff writer
Sacajawa was a Shoshone Indian woman who was guide and interpreter to the Lewis and Clark expedition. She carried her infant son on her back across thousands of miles of rugged frontier.
Harriet Tubman, known as the "Moses of Her People", led hundreds of slaves to freedom on the underground railroad.
Clara Barton nursed wounded soldiers near the front lines during the Civil War and organized the Red Cross in 1881.
Their exploits and those of others like them have not been adequately represented in the history books, said Mr. Jenkins. The study at Studies at the University of Kansas.
In an effort to draw attention to the rule women have played in history and the opportunities we have today, this month is celebrated as Women's History Month.
Barbara Ballard, director of the Emily Taylor Women's Resource Center, said that the celebration of women's history began in California in 1977. By 1980 the idea had spread across the country, and last year Congress proclaimed March to be Women's History Month.
"In many ways, women have been invisible," Ballard said. "There are a lot of lost women in our past."
In celebration of women's history, Noakes and Phillip Paludan, professor of history, will present women's constitutional issues March 22 in the Kansas Union's Centennial Room from 7 to 9 p.m.
On March 29, a women's film festival will be in the Kansas Union's Jawhack Room from 7 to 9 p.m.
Noakes said that although women have made significant contributions in history, she thought they had made progress since winning the right to vote in 1920.
Equal Rights Amendment and the increasing feminization of poverty reflect a national policy that does not support women and children, Noakes said.
In the last decade, the defeat of the
said. Lacking adequate policies for child care and maternal leave, the United States is behind most other industrialized countries in this area, she said.
said. Noakes said women needed to be more active participants in the political process.
Ballard agreed. She said that statistics showed that more women vote in the United States than any other group but that that was not reflected in policy-making positions.
Women hold only two seats out of 50 in the U.S. Senate and only 23 seats out of 435 in the House of Representatives.
"One month is not enough time to cover everything, but it is time to focus on some of the most important things," Ballard said.
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