National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

Groups welcome! 

 

The National Women’s Hall of Fame will be OPEN July 5th from 1 – 6 pm and CLOSED July 5th.

Shirley Ann Jackson
Born 1946
Achievements: Education, Science
1998 Inductee
Betty Friedan
Born 1921
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Matilda Joslyn Gage
Born 1826
Achievements: Humanities
1995 Inductee
Loretta Ross
Born 1953
Achievements: Education, Humanities
2024 Inductee
Blanche Stuart Scott
Born 1889
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Henrietta Lacks
Born 1920
Achievements: Science
2020 Inductee
Bertha Holt
Born 1904
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Judith L. Pipher
Born 1940
Achievements: Education, Science
2007 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Rachel Carson
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Kathrine Switzer
Born 1947
Achievements: Athletics
2011 Inductee
Gerty Theresa Radnitz Cori
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1998 Inductee
Carol A. Mutter
Born 1945
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2017 Inductee
Paulina Kellogg Wright Davis
Born 1813
Achievements: Humanities
2002 Inductee
Jeanne Holm
Born 1921
Achievements: Government
2000 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Born 1860
Achievements: Arts
1994 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Grace Hopper
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Dorothy Harrison Eustis
Born 1886
Achievements: Philanthropy
2011 Inductee
Ruth Patrick
Born 1907
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Louise McManus
Born 1896
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Sherry Lansing
Born 1944
Achievements: Arts, Business, Humanities, Philanthropy
2017 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee

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Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

Conversation with Great Women – Sacramento

The Hall, in association with the McGeorge School of Law at the University of the Pacific, was delighted to host a Conversation with Great Women in Sacramento, California. The Conversation featured...

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News & Events

2017 Induction Weekend

Save the Date! The 2017 National Women's Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony will take place September 15, 16 & 17, 2017 in Seneca Falls, NY. More details to come.

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Inductee, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Published in New York Times

In the spirit of the Hall’s Oral History Project is an essay adapted from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s (inducted 2002) forthcoming memoir “My own words.” Her essay offers good reminder of how telling women’s history is American history and how histories, as we honor...

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