We’re coming up on the 100th anniversary of women winning the right to vote in the United States — a tremendous achievement of our foremothers. To celebrate, the National Organization for Women has launched “Changemakers of the Centennial” – a…
Frances Perkins was a most unique individual. The first women cabinet member, she served President Franklin Delano Roosevelt as Secretary of Labor from 1932 to 1944, and it is she who is most responsible for giving us Social Security, Unemployment…
We had a full house of about 45 participants at our January 19 event, where we screened the 99-minute documentary Reversing Roe. Participants from Buffalo Grove, Deerfield, Des Plaines, Glenview, Huntley, Inverness, Morton Grove, Northbrook and Palatine joined us for…
Starting in January, a new state law will require doctors to tell patients, after mammograms, if they have dense breast tissue and warn women of the implications. For years, mammogram reports have contained information on breast density, but often in…
What a day! By now you know that earlier today (January 15), the ERA passed both houses in the Virginia legislature! Thank you for all of the work you have done to pass the ERA here in Illinois in 2018!…
Please join Planned Parenthood Illinois Action, the Illinois Choice Action Team, Personal PAC, the National Organization for Women and many others, to demand that the Illinois legislature pass the Reproductive Health Act (the “RHA”, House Bill 2495.) Please contact your…
From AAUW: On Thursday, December 13, the House and Senate unanimously passed a bipartisan bill that changes the way sexual harassment is addressed in the legislative workforce. The bill, which reforms the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, eliminates the problematic…
A fascinating and important article by Jennifer Wright in Harper’s Bazaar in April 2018…
NOTE: We decided not to meet in December. Our next chapter meeting will be Wednesday, January 16, 2019. Place TBD but we’re hoping to meet at the Indian Trails LIbrary in Wheeling. Members are contacting libraries about Women’s History month…
