2020 a big year for women’s history

One hundred years after passage of the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, Philadelphia will host a series of events called Vision2020. Events will include the following

0 an interactive exhibit on women at center city’s Kimmel Center, starting in March 2020;

0 a spring assembly of undergraduate student leaders from across the U.S.;

0 a two-day road rally from Philadelphia to Seneca Falls, NY, where the first Women’s Rights Convention was held in 1848; and

0 a three-day national conference in September honoring 100 trail-blazing women.

I plan to attend as many of these events as I can, while I’m also lecturing on FRONTIER FEMINISTS to libraries, book clubs and women’s groups whose members I meet at the Vision2020 events. After introducing this lecture at several engagements this past fall, I’m convinced that women (and men) are hungry to learn more about their shared history, if that history is presented in a clear and compelling way.

I hope to meet you at these upcoming events, and at my lectures. My next engagement is on Friday, January 31, at Philadelphia OLLI, which is based at Temple’s Center City campus. Won’t you join me? Won’t you join everyone who in 2020 will be celebrating women’s past achievements and future promise?