National Women’s Hall of Fame

1 Canal Street, Seneca Falls

Tuesday – Saturday

11am – 4pm

(Closed Sunday and Monday)

 

Note: The Hall will be closed for an event on 9/27/25

 

Groups welcome!

Marian de Forest
Born 1864
Achievements: Arts, Humanities
2001 Inductee
Mary A. Hallaren
Born 1907
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Barbara Jordan
Born 1936
Achievements: Government
1990 Inductee
Karen DeCrow
Karen DeCrow
Born 1937
Achievements: Government, Humanities
2009 Inductee
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright
Born 1806
Achievements: Humanities
2007 Inductee
Shirley Chisholm
Born 1924
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Mia Hamm
Born 1972
Achievements: Athletics
2021 Inductee
Annie Jump Cannon
Born 1863
Achievements: Science
1994 Inductee
Margaret Chase Smith
Born 1897
Achievements: Government
1973 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Marian Wright Edelman
Born 1939
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Elouise Cobell
Born 1945
Achievements: Business
2024 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Dorothy H. Andersen
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
2001 Inductee
Louise Bourgeois
Born 1911
Achievements: Arts
2009 Inductee
Ellen Swallow Richards
Born 1842
Achievements: Science
1993 Inductee
Helen Hayes
Born 1900
Achievements: Arts
1973 Inductee
Kate Millett
Born 1934
Achievements: Arts, Education, Humanities
2013 Inductee
Ethel Percy Andrus
Born 1884
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Harriet Williams Russell Strong
Born 1844
Achievements: Business
2001 Inductee
Gwendolyn Brooks
Born 1917
Achievements: Arts
1988 Inductee
Eudora Welty
Born 1909
Achievements: Arts
2000 Inductee
Jacqueline Cochran
Born 1906
Achievements: Science
1993 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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