National Women’s Hall of Fame

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(Closed Sunday and Monday)

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Mary McLeod Bethune
Born 1875
Achievements: Education
1973 Inductee
Donna E. Shalala
Born 1941
Achievements: Education, Government
2011 Inductee
Patricia Schroeder
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
1995 Inductee
Lydia Maria Child
Born 1802
Achievements: Humanities
2001 Inductee
Martha Graham
Born 1894
Achievements: Arts
2015 Inductee
Leontine T.C. Kelly
Born 1920
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Margaret Mead
Born 1901
Achievements: Science
1976 Inductee
Martha Wright Griffiths
Born 1912
Achievements: Government
1993 Inductee
Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Born 1933
Achievements: Government
2002 Inductee
Rita Rossi Colwell
Born 1934
Achievements: Science
2005 Inductee
Nancy Pelosi
Born 1940
Achievements: Government
2013 Inductee
Octavia E. Butler
Born 1947
Achievements: Arts
2021 Inductee
Oveta Culp Hobby
Born 1905
Achievements: Government
1996 Inductee
Oprah Winfrey
Born 1954
Achievements: Arts, Business, Philanthropy
1994 Inductee
Ann Bancroft
Born 1955
Achievements: Education, Science
1995 Inductee
Clara Barton
Born 1821
Achievements: Science
1973 Inductee
Mildred Cohn
Born 1913
Achievements: Science
2009 Inductee
Felice N. Schwartz
Born 1925
Achievements: Business
1998 Inductee
Wilma Mankiller
Born 1945
Achievements: Humanities
1993 Inductee
Julie Krone
Born 1963
Achievements: Athletics
2013 Inductee
Philippa Marrack
Born 1945
Achievements: Science
2015 Inductee
Patricia Bath
Born 1942
Achievements: Science
2024 Inductee
Crystal Eastman
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2000 Inductee
Madeleine Korbel Albright
Born 1937
Achievements: Government
1998 Inductee
Mary Harriman Rumsey
Born 1881
Achievements: Humanities
2015 Inductee

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Letter from the ED: Taking Time to Absorb Hope

Margaret Sánchez turned off her TV for two days following the National Women’s Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony. She wanted time to “absorb the hope.”    I can’t imagine a higher compliment for the...

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This isn’t the start to the “In Her Words” message I intended to write. This week marks my one year anniversary with the National Women’s Hall of Fame and my first draft began with a reflection from...

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Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

Passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Albright

The National Women’s Hall of Fame is saddened to learn of the passing of 1998 Inductee Madeleine Korbel Albright. “As a refugee whose family fled first from the Nazis and later from the Communists,...

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