Results for "Women"
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 19-048, Smithsonian Institution Office of Advancement Smithsonian Women's Committee, Website Records, 2017-2018
- Date: 2017 2017-2018
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement. Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 15-225, Smithsonian Institution Office of Advancement Smithsonian Women's Committee, Website Records, 2014-2015
- Date: 2014 2014-2015
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution. Office of Advancement. Smithsonian Women's Committee
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Depression-Era Pen Pals: A Correspondence Between Two Hard-Working Women
- Date: January 7, 2020
- Description: Ruth B. MacManus and Gertrude Brown bonded over their heavy workloads and shared experiences as working women in the Great Depression. Together, they helped improve a publication that does not bear their names: the Smithsonian Scientific Series.
- Finding Aid
SIA RU000507, Smithsonian Institution Women's Council, Records, 1980-1992, with related records, 1973-1979
- Date: 1973 1973-1992 1980-1992, with related records, 1973-1979
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Women's Council
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
- Blog Post
Let’s Play the Name Game: Identifying Women Scientists on the Flickr Commons
- Date: April 12, 2012
- Creator: Susannah Wells
- Description: The Flickr Commons community helps the Archives identify images of Women in Science from our Science Service collections.
- Finding Aid
SIA Acc. 11-204, Smithsonian Institution Women's Council, Council Records, 1972-1995, 2003-2008
- Date: 1972 1972-2008 1972-1995, 2003-2008
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Women's Council
- Creator: Smithsonian Institution Archives
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Mary E. Massey
- Date: March 10, 2021
- Creator: Emily Niekrasz
- Description: From 1967 to 1991, Mary E. Massey broke barriers for women at the Smithsonian by demonstrating her skills in spaces typically reserved only for men. Though Massey arrived at the Smithsonian as an elevator operator, by her retirement, she was the building manager for the Smithsonian American Art Museum and the National Portrait Gallery. In a column reserved for the Smithsonian
Wonderful Women Wednesday: Helen Jagodzinske
- Date: September 14, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: Retail Associate, Helen Jagodzinske, National Museum of American History, was the oldest employee at the Smithsonian when she retired at age 94. Prior to that, she served at the Pentagon as clerk, and in the Women's Army Corp during WWII. #Groundbreaker
- Blog Post
The Archives’ Hidden Women
- Date: March 15, 2018
- Creator: Deborah Shapiro
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_9246,size=500,center]THE BIGGER PICTURE's “Wonderful Women Wednesday” series profiles the female curators, directors, and research scientists who have risen to prominence in their careers at the Smithsonian.These stories of broken glass ceilings are fascinating, but they barely scratch the surface of the Smithsonian’s female workforce through the
Playing Against Type: Women, Science, and Stereotypes
- Date: April 8, 2014
- Creator: Marcel Chotkowski LaFollette
- Description: Even enlightened publications and workplaces can succumb to the fallback position of choosing stereotyped images of female scientists.
- Blog Post
3/19/2016: Help Us Write Minority Women into History
- Date: March 15, 2016
- Creator: Effie Kapsalis
- Description: [edan-image:id=siris_sic_8825,size=300,left]It is once again time to come together for a day of Wikipedia! Join Smithsonian and U.S. National Archives staff, as well as local Wikipedian volunteers, for a Women's History Month/Museum Day Live! edit-a-thon on Saturday March 19th, 10am-3pm, at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian. Sign up for a wikipedia
Women in the Office of Protection Services
- Date: March 12, 2019
- Creator: Lisa Fthenakis
- Description: In 1974, women joined the Smithsonian security force and they have been rising through the ranks ever since.