National Woman's History Museum
Progressive Era Women
The National Women's History Museum provides this interactive resource that permits users to explore women who played key roles during the Progressive Era in the quest for workers' rights, the Settlement House Movement, the Suffrage...
Curated OER
Chapter 28: Red Flags and Velvet Revolutions: The End of the Cold War, 1960-1990
Set your historians up for testing success using this interactive flashcard tool. It is one of many learning strategies offered in this thorough online resource. Although designed for use with a text, the site is valuable independently....
NPR
This Isn't Right: A History of Women in Industry
Women were in the workplace long before Rosie the Riveter pushed up her sleeve. Learn about the working options available to women during the Industrial Revolution, the Progressive Era, and the Great Depression with a lesson that...
Jane Addams Project
Woman Suffrage
Suffragettes, suffragists, and anti-suffragists. A two-day, richly detailed lesson plan has young historians investigate the twentieth-century suffrage movement. Groups examine primary and secondary source materials about Jane Addams and...
Curated OER
All About Bridget Jones's Diary
This quiz focuses on the book Bridget Jones's Diary, though there is some overlap with the film. The book and quiz have mature content; you could potentially use this resource in a college sociology course, course on feminism,...
Curated OER
KWHL Chart
In this feminism graphic organizer worksheet, students consider the topic of feminism and record what they know, want to know, how to find out what they want to know, and what they learned.
Curated OER
Chapter 26 – The 1960s & 1970s Counterculture
In this 1960's and 1970's America activity, high schoolers read assigned textbook pages regarding the counterculture and respond to 41 short answer questions.
Curated OER
Germaine Greer
In this famous person activity, students read a passage about Germaine Greer and then complete a variety of in-class and homework activities to support comprehension, including partner interviews, spelling, cloze,...
Curated OER
My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun – Questions
For this poetry discussion worksheet, students consider the elements of poetry as they respond to 6 short answer and essay questions based on the poem "My Life had stood – a Loaded Gun –."
Curated OER
English Vocabulary Skills: AWL Sublist 9 - Exercise 4a
In this online interactive English vocabulary skills worksheet, high schoolers answer 10 matching questions which require them to fill in the blanks in 10 sentences. Students may submit their answers to be scored.
University of Toronto (Canada)
University of Toronto: Women's Human Rights Resources Database
This database provides a wealth of information on women's rights. Topics include civil rights, feminism, marriage, politics, violence against women, and social reform.
University of Virginia
University of Virginia: Vindication of the Rights of Woman Etext
This is the full text of one of the earliest books on women's rights, "Vindication of the Rights of Woman."
Lumen Learning
Lumen: Women's Sphere and the Emergence of the Women's Rights Movement
This article focuses on American women in the 19th century and the movement from a domestic ideology to the emergence of feminism.
University of Maryland
Voices of Democracy: Sojourner Truth "Address at the Woman's Rights Convention "
In a speech given before the Women's Rights Convention in Akron Ohio in 1851, Sojourner Truth argued forcefully for the rights of women, drawing particular attention to the position of women of color in the social and legal hierarchy of...
OpenStax
Open Stax: Women's Rights
From a chapter on " Antebellum Idealism and Reform Impulses," this section explains the connections between abolition, reform, and antebellum feminism and also describes the ways antebellum women's movements were both traditional and...
Other
Ib Times: October 26th Driving Campaign: Some Saudi Women Get Behind the Wheel
In Saudi Arabia, women are legally prohibited from driving. Learn about a recent protest where women drove in protest.
Digital History
Digital History: Feminism Reborn
This comprehensive survey of the women's movement during the 1960s and 1970s documents women and politics, women's wages, legal discrimination against women, stereotypes of women, women's rights legislation, and women's rights...
National Women's Hall of Fame
National Women's Hall of Fame: Betty Friedan
The National Women's Hall of Fame offers an outline of the life and accomplishnments of women's rights activist Betty Friedan, author of "The Feminine Mystique."
Digital Public Library of America
Dpla: The Equal Rights Amendment
This primary source set uses photographs, ephemera, political cartoons, video clips, and other documents to explore the women's rights activism inspired by the Equal Rights Amendment.
BBC
Bbc: Week of 5 12 14: The Women in Iran Taking Off the Hijab
Many women in the Middle East no longer want to wear the headscarf called a hijab. Read about the women in Iran who are defying a 35 year old law by going without a hijab.
Bartleby
Bartleby.com: The Vindication of the Rights of Woman
This site has the entire text of Mary Wollstonecraft's (1759-1797 CE) important feminist piece, the first of its kind. It is separated into chapters, and has a search feature included.
Other
Pbs: Half the Sky: Turning Oppression Into Opportunity for Women Worldwide
A program to put an end to the oppression of women and girls worldwide brings together an information site where visitors can find blogs, social media feeds, celebrity and crew diaries, videos, and up-to-date information about the...
Other
Jwa: Jewish Women and the Feminist Revolution (Jewish Women's Archive)
This site offers an interactive look at the roles Jewish women have played in the furthering of feminism and the American women's movement in the last half of the 20th century. You can access the information through a timeline, themes of...
Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia Britannica: Britannica Kids: Women Who Changed the World: Women's Movement
Encyclopedia Britannica provides an overview of the women's movement, which sought equality for women and the changing of a male-dominated power structure.