For the first time in decades, consensus broke at the UN Commission on the Status of Women. The United States cast the lone “no” vote on a document aimed at improving justice systems for women and girls worldwide. Misogyny is the official policy of the US under Trump.
Every single article I read about Madonna at Coachella mentioned that she’s 67. Not one article I read about Nine Inch Nails at Coachella mentioned that Trent’s 60.
ISN’T THAT WEIRD?
It’s almost as if everything Madonna has ever said about misogyny is true, or something. 🤷♂️
Every Kid Healthy Week, April 20–24.
Virginia Thrall Smith grew up in Bloomfield, CT, in the 1830s, in a Connecticut that offered comfort and protection to some children and almost nothing to others.
Discover how she responded in detail at cwhf.org.
#EveryKidHealthyWeek #VirginiaThrallSmith #CWHF
Florence Wald, a nurse, educator, and former dean of the Yale School of Nursing, founded Connecticut Hospice in Branford in 1974, the first hospice program in the United States.
Learn More at cwhf.org
#MotherOfAmericanHospice #FlorenceWald #CWHF #EndOfLifeCare #YaleNursing
#CTHospice
Southern Connecticut State University’s 25th Women’s & Gender Studies Conference
Friday–Saturday, April 17–18, 2026, at SCSU in New Haven.
#WomensAndGenderStudies #FeministConference #DisabilityStudies #TransnationalFeminism #DecolonialStudies #SocialJustice #SCSUEvents #AcademicConference
Today, we turn the spotlight on to Susan Saint James, who always has a twinkle in her eye, as if she is sharing a private joke. Now semi-retired, she focuses on the Special Olympics
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#InternationalMomentOfLaughterDay #SusanSaintJames #CWHF #CTWomensHistory #SpecialOlympics
Family Ties, Lasting Legacies
✨ Martha “Matt” Langevin & Elizabeth George Plouffe
✨ The Hill Sisters – Clara, Elsie, and Helena Hill
✨ The Smiths of Glastonbury – Abby, Julia, Laurilla, Cyrinthia, and Hancy.
Learn more at cwhf.org.
#NationalSiblingDay #CWHF #NativeAmericanHeritage #SuffrageHistory
Celebrating Nell Newman with a nod to farms, fields, and food systems, her work reminds us that every seed, every soil-saving practice, and small farm matters. Here’s to another year of growing a kinder, healthier, more sustainable world.
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#NellNewman #HappyBirthday #CWHF #OrganicFarming
Today’s reminder: your worth isn’t measured in loads of laundry, your home doesn’t have to be spotless to be loving, and rest is a right, not a reward.
What joy are you choosing while the housework waits?
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#NationalNoHouseworkDay #ChoosingFunOverChores #CWHF #UnpaidLabor #WomensWork
Apply before midnight, April 15, 2026, at www.cognitoforms.com/ConnecticutWomensHallOfF...
---GOODLUCK !!!!
#EileenKrausScholarship #CWHF #ScholarshipOpportunity #ApplyNow #EducationFunding #WomensScholarship #ScholarshipDeadline #ScholarshipAlert
To learn more about our brilliant, quick‑witted, iconoclastic, groundbreaking, brave, visionary, and pioneering inductees, visit cwhf.org.
#AprilFools #BreakingNews #ConnecticutWomensHallOfFame #WomensAchievements #WomenInHistory #CelebrateWomen #PioneeringWomen #CWHF
Jerimarie Liesegang, PhD, was a Harvard-trained chemist with multiple advanced degrees who turned her focus to trans liberation & social justice.
cwhf.org.
#TransDayOfVisibility #WomensHistoryMonth #JerimarieLiesegang #CWHF #TransRights #LGBTQHistory #QueersWithoutBorders #HRC #CTAC
March is over, but our work does not stop on the 31st, and we cannot do it without you.
In March 2027, we are restarting our Induction Ceremonies. Watch this space for more details. Visit us at cwhf.org.
#WomensHistoryMonth #CWHF #CelebrateWomen #CTHistory #WomenLeaders #Trailblazers
Annie Leibovitz has spent decades exploring tension, using light, staging, composition, and concept to turn portraiture into visual storytelling.
Visit cwhf.org
#WomensHistoryMonth #SmokeAndMirrorsDay #AnnieLeibovitz #CWHF #PhotographyArt #VisualStorytelling #ArtOfPhotography #IdentityInArt
Dr. Maria‑Luz Fernández, Professor Emeritus of Nutritional Sciences at UConn, built an internationally recognized career investigating how smarter food choices lower the risk of metabolic disease.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #NationalTriglyceridesDay #DrMariaLuzFernández #CWHF #UCONN
On World Theatre Day, we’re spotlighting CWHF inductee Anika Noni Rose.
Learn more about Anika (& her grandmother Cora Lee Bentley Radcliffe) at cwhf.org.
#WomensHistoryMonth #WorldTheatreDay #AnikaNoniRose #CWHF #TonyAwardWinner #BroadwayStar #DisneyPrincess #BreakingBarriers #TheatreLegacy
On March 26, we celebrate “Make Your Own Holiday Day”, featuring Martha Stewart, who turned Connecticut creativity into a global lifestyle empire. So in true Martha fashion, dream up a celebration that reflects your passions:
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#WomensHistoryMonth #MakeYourOwnHoliday #MarthaStewart #CWHF
We honor those who kicked down barriers and those who quietly inspired change, inductee or not. It is for every girl and woman who has been told to wait her turn, lower her voice, or dream smaller, and chose not to. Your story is part of our legacy.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #OurHistory #CWHF
Lucia Chase, born 3/24/1897, began serious ballet training at 35 after being widowed. She co-founded the American Ballet Theatre and danced with the company for 20 years, continuing to appear in character parts into her 80s.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #LuciaChase #CWHF #ABT #NeverTooLate
The Eileen Kraus Memorial Scholarship
Rules and Application here: cwhf.org/educational-programs/eileen-kraus-scholarship
or scan the QR code in the graphic, and please share this post so more students can see it
#EileenKrausScholarship #CWHF #HigherEducation #CollegeScholarshipOr
On Near Miss Day, we’re reflecting on when a woman’s talent was almost overlooked.
Indra Nooyi, Margaret Bourke-White, & Jewel Plummer Cobb almost went unseen: read their stories.
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#WomensHistoryMonth, #NearMissDay, #IndraNooyi, #MargaretBourkeWhite, #JewelPlummerCobb, #CWHF #WomenWhoLead
💧Water is never just an environmental issue, worldwide; it’s a gender, class, and race issue, and women leaders are working to ensure that where water flows, equity grows.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #WorldWaterDay #MargaretMiner #AliceaCharamut #CWHF #CleanWater #WaterEquity #RiversAllianceCT
Inductee Sarah Lee Brown Fleming used verse to call for racial uplift, integration, and equal opportunity for Black women and their communities.
Learn about Sarah at cwhf.org
#WomensHistoryMonth #WorldPoetryDay #InternationalDayfortheEliminationofRacialDiscrimination #SarahLeeBrownFleming #CWHF
Visit these restaurants or learn from these great CT Chefs
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#WomansHistoryMonth #GreatAmericanMeatOut #CWHF #ClaireCriscuolo #ClairesCornerCopia #RenanaMagee #IONRestaurant #ChefGiGiLawrence #RastaRant #JennaMcPartland #JoylarkKitchen #ChrissyTracey #ForageAndFeast #PlantBasedCT
In October 1869, decades before the March 19, 1911, International Women’s Day marches in Europe, CT suffragists gathered in Hartford for the state’s first woman suffrage convention.
Learn about them and donate if you can at cwhf.org.
#WomensHistoryMonth #InternationalWomensDay #CWHF #Suffrage
Sophie Tucker charmed audiences into accepting her exactly as she was: big, brash, and impossible to ignore, reflecting every so‑called awkward moment onto anyone who underestimated her.
Learn more at cwhf.org.
#WomensHistoryMonth #SophieTucker #CWHF #AwkwardMoments #UnstoppableWomen #Vaudeville
Visit cwhf.org to learn more about her story, tag a friend who inspires you to speak up, and, if you’re able, donate to support our work amplifying the voices of Connecticut women past and present.
#WomensHistoryMonth #StPatricksDay #CatherineFlanagan #CWHF #VotesForWomen #Suffrage #GoodTrouble
Learn more about CWHF Inductees Jane Pauley, Anne Garrels, and Adrianne Baughns-Wallace
at cwhf.org.
#WomensHistoryMonth #FreedomOfInformationDay #CWHF #TransparencyMatters #Journalism #JanePauley #AnneGarrels #AdrianneBaughnsWallace #JournalismMatters #WomenInJournalism
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#WomensHistoryMonth #SelectionSunday #CWHF #CTWomensSports #CTOlympians #UConnWBB #ESPNW #WomenInSports #WomenAthletes #ConnecticutSports #Tigerettes
This Pi Day, we’re raising a slice of “π” to Dr. Shelly M. Jones and to every woman proving that when everyone is welcomed into mathematics, the circle gets bigger, and the future gets smarter. Read her book-- Women Who Count.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #PiDay #DrShellyMJones #CWHF #InclusiveMath