Description: As the Smithsonian Women's Council Career Development Chair, Francine Berkowitz, former Director of the Office of International Relations, established career planning workshops to help women and minorities advance at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
Description: LaVerne M. Love, Women's Program Manager with the Office of Equal Opportunity, 1973–1980, was the executive officer of the Smithsonian Women's Council and wrote the organization's first bylaws. In 1976–77, she chaired the Civil Service Commission task force on minority women. At the time, she was the highest ranking African American woman at the Smithsonian. #Groundbreaker
Description: Curator Adelyn Breeskin, National Museum of American Art (now Smithsonian American Art Museum), was one of the 1st women to direct a major art museum (Baltimore Museum of Art) and was a champion of obscure artists in the contemporary art world. #Groundbreaker
Description: Each week, the Archives features a woman who has been a groundbreaker at the Smithsonian, past or present, in a series titled Wonderful Women Wednesday.
Description: In celebration of Women’s History Month and International Women’s Day, this is the third in a series of installments from Smithsonian Institution Archives staff highlighting women in science photographs. We will post portraits of women science here throughout the month.
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