National Women’s History Month 2017 Theme “Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business”

National Women’s History Month 2017 Theme
“Honoring Trailblazing Women in Labor and Business” 

The 2017 theme for National Women’s History Month honors women who have successfully challenged the role of women in both business and the paid labor force. Women have always worked, but often their work has been undervalued and unpaid.

The 2017 Honorees represent many diverse backgrounds and each made her mark in a different field. Additionally, the Honorees’ work and influence spans three centuries of America’s history. These women all successfully challenged the social and legal structures that have kept women’s labor underappreciated and underpaid.

 

The 2017 honorees include: Alexis Herman (Former U.S. Secretary of State); Lilly Ledbetter (Equal Pay Advocate); Lucy Gonzalez Parson (Labor Organizer and Socialist Leader); Maggie Lena Walker (Business Woman and Community Banker Leader); Yvonne Walker (Presider Service Employees International Union – SEIU Local 1000) and Addie L. Wyatt (Labor Union Leader and Civil Rights Activist).

 

Visit http://www.nwhp.org/ for profiles on these trailblazing women.

 

 

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