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  1. A portrait of scientist Eva J. Pell smiling.

    American Women of Science: Recovering History, Defining the Future

    • Date: October 6, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Attend this year’s Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative Virtual Symposium!

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  3. Adela Gomez smiles while speaking on the telephone at work.

    American Women of Science Symposium Sessions Available Online

    • Date: December 1, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: You can watch the 2020 Smithsonian American Women’s History Initiative symposium on the past and future of women in science any time.

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    We’re Digitizing the Smithsonian Women’s Council Records!

    • Date: June 30, 2022
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Celebrate with us as we ramp up to digitize more than 36,000 records documenting the history of women and work at the Smithsonian.

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  7. A group portrait of the members of the 1975 Smithsonian Institution Women’s Council.

    Women Carrying out the Work of Change in the 1970s

    • Date: January 5, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Wonder Woman 1984 features fictional Smithsonian women in science trying to change the world. Let’s examine how real-life women pushed for change at the Smithsonian in the 1970s and created new opportunities for women at work.

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  9. A woman wearing glasses and a lab coat takes a photo of a museum object in a laboratory.

    Elisabeth West FitzHugh, a Driving Force in Cultural Heritage Conservation and Scientific Research

    • Date: July 6, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn about FitzHugh’s over 50-year career in conservation science at the Smithsonian.

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  11. A person stands in a room with scientific instruments. She appears to be working on an experiment.

    Smithsonian Women in Science

    • Date: September 17, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn how we’re creating a better record of women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  13. Annette Aiello holds a butterfly net and looks toward the camera.

    Women in Science on Wikipedia

    • Date: July 7, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Less than 19% of Wikipedia biographies in English represent women. Edit-a-thons can help change that.

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  15. A woman, Mary Jane Rathbun, sits at her desk looking at scientific specimens.

    Smithsonian Women in Science in the Nineteenth Century

    • Date: October 24, 2019
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Learn more about some of the earliest women in science at the Smithsonian.

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  17. The first page of Margaret S. Collins’ memorial service pamphlet.

    A Legend in Termite Field Biology

    • Date: March 2, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: Dr. Margaret S. Collins became a renowned expert in multiple areas of termite zoololgy during her almost 50-year career as a scientist and professor.

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  19. A woman sitting at a table looks at diamond-bearing rocks under a microscope.

    Miss Margaret W. Moodey in Charge

    • Date: May 5, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: For forty years, from around 1900 to 1941, Margaret W. Moodey (1862-1948) worked as a scientific aide in the Department of Geology at the United States National Museum. Her colleagues came to value her experience identifying, classifying, and cataloging geological specimens, which over the years, included gems and precious stones, fossil vertebrates and plants, and

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    Doris Holmes Blake and the Fight for Women’s Right to Paid Employment

    • Date: May 3, 2021
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: How the marital status provision of the 1932 Economy Act impacted one Smithsonian scientist.

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    Serena Katherine “Violet” Dandridge: Suffragist and Scientific Illustrator

    • Date: August 4, 2020
    • Creator: Dr. Elizabeth Harmon
    • Description: As one of the first women to work in scientific illustration at the Smithsonian, Violet Dandridge made her mark at the United States National Museum.

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