Throughout March, the Libraries host events and activities that highlight the achievements and lives of women all through history. Explore and engage with our community as we honor the contributions and achievements of notable women and their impact on our society.
Visit the Education Library for two displays, one honoring Women in STEAM, featuring scientists and artists like Germaine Arnaktauyok, Mary Cassatt, Georgia O’Keeffe, Frida Kahlo, Margaret Hamilton, Caroline Herschel, and Mary Anning. A second display will recognize Women's History.
Learn more about the women who shaped Florida through the Governor's House Library's online exhibits. Champions of St. Augustine: The Women Behind the History offers a StoryMap that celebrates St. Augustine women who made history, wrote history, and preserved history in the 20th century. The online exhibit, Zora Neale Hurston's St. Augustine, offers digitized items highlighting Hurston's links with the city. The library's blog contains several additional posts exploring the contributions of women to St. Augustine's history and present.
Check out our Women's History Month display on the 2nd floor of Library West on the New Books Wall. Learn about Lilly Ledbetter and other pay parity pioneers. Then swing by the Recreational Reads area to view the display, "The Girls That Made Us," exploring influential female characters from literature and pop culture.
A current display, "Twentieth Century Americans of Negro Lineage," features a pictorial map created by Louise E. Jefferson. Jefferson was a Harlem Renaissance creator, cartographer, photographer, illustrator, graphic designer, a founding member of the Harlem Artists Guild, and the first Black woman to hold a directorship role in publishing. The display also highlights the four women who are depicted on the map, with photos and brief bios of Leontyne Price, Althea Gibson, Constance Baker Motley, and Lena Horne.
Visit the exhibit "We Are the Girls of Old Florida" in the Smathers Library Gallery on the second floor. Even before the University of Florida’s (UF) founding in 1905, the women in UF’s community were and continue to be resilient advocates for and agents of transformation. This exhibit honors these women students who carved their own path at UF as their voices shifted from the margins to the center of campus life. Curated by Dalia Bronisas Dooley and Sarah Coates.
"Collectively, we can Accelerate Action for gender equality.
"Step forward in solidarity for International Women's Day (IWD) 2025 on March 8 to help #AccelerateAction.
"At the current rate of progress, it will take until 2158, which is roughly five generations from now, to reach full gender parity, according to data from the World Economic Forum.
"Focusing on the need to Accelerate Action emphasizes the importance of taking swift and decisive steps to achieve gender equality. It calls for increased momentum and urgency in addressing the systemic barriers and biases that women face, both in personal and professional spheres.
"So, together, let's Accelerate Action to speed up the rate of progress worldwide."1
1."IWD 2025 campaign theme is 'Accelerate Action," International Women's Day, accessed March 3, 2025, https://www.internationalwomensday.com/theme
WSA is collaborating with AXO at their house to celebrate the beginning of Women’s History Month! We will have desserts and will be discussing what WHM means and how we can appreciate the favorite women in our lives!
Celebrate both Black History Month and Women’s History Month with a screening of “Harriet”, a 2019 biographical film about Harriet Tubman (1822-1913).
In honor of Women’s History Month, the Bob Graham Center Student Fellows join with the Bob Graham Center for Public Service to host the 2025 Joan S. Forrest Women in Leadership Forum. This year’s stellar panelists are leaders and scholars in politics at the local, state, & federal level.
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