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.
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#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.
cwhf.org
#WomensHistoryMonth #PiDay #DrShellyMJones #CWHF #InclusiveMath

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

If today feels cursed, take a page from Rosalind Russell: stand taller, talk faster, remember that the unluckiest thing you can do is underestimate a Connecticut woman with a joke up her sleeve and snark in her heart.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #RosalindRussell #CWHF #FridayThe13th #FilmIcon

Visit cwhf.org to learn more about Dorrit and other inspiring women.
#WomensHistoryMonth #DorritHoffleit #GirlScoutDay #CWHF #WomenInSTEM
#WomenInScience #OnlyAGirl #GirlsLead #InspiringWomen

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#WomensHistoryMonth #WomenFirsts #CWHF #MarthaParsons #MaryHall #EdytheJGaines #BettyTianti #MariaCSanchez #SheOpenedTheDoor #CTWomenLead #CTWomensHistory

Visit our website to learn more and to donate: cwhf.org,
Go to our YouTube channel, youtube.com/@ctwomenshalloffame, watch bios of our inductees.
#WomensHistoryMonth #HarrietTubmanDay #CWHF #KristenGriest #JosephineBaker #VirginiaHall #FlorenceFitch #ReginaRushKittle #SupportWomensHistory

Visit our website cwhf.org,
Go to our channel, youtube.com/@ctwomenshalloffame,bios and watch bios of our inductees.

#WomensHistoryMonth #HarrietTubmanDay #CWHF ;#HarrietTubman #KristenGriest #JosephineBaker #VirginiaHall #FlorenceFitch #ReginaRushKittle #WomenWarriors #SupportWomensHistory”

On National Barbie Day, we’re thinking even iconic dolls can grow. While Barbie didn’t start as a feminist icon, she has evolved to reflect more diverse and powerful role models for girls.
Explore the women we honor in our Inductee Gallery at cwhf.org

#WomensHistoryMonth #NationalBarbieDay #CWHF

Dr. Hilda Crosby Standish spent decades juggling five kids, hospital shifts, and late-night lectures to make birth control and honest sex education accessible in Connecticut.
To learn more about Dr. Standish, go to cwhf.org
#WomensHistoryMonth #DrHildaCrosbyStandish #CWHF #DayLightSavingsTime

🌍 Honoring International Women’s Day
You can help protect CT women's stories by joining The Trail Blazers, our community of sustaining donors dedicated to preserving women’s history
cwhf.org/trail-blazers
#WomensHistoryMonth #TrailBlazers #CWHF #IWD2026

By 2023, Connecticut Paid Leave was 1 of just 13 state programs + DC. New CEO Erin Choquette, a longtime legal & policy expert helped CPL deliver over $1.5B to 185,000+ workers, leading the program into a strong, innovative future.

#WomensHistoryMonth #PaidFamilyLeave #ConnecticutPaidLeave #cwhf

CT Paid Leave program was passed in 2019. In 2020, Andrea Barton Reeves stepped in to make that promise real as the first CEO of the Connecticut Paid Leave Authority, the agency created to bring the law to life.
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#WomensHistoryMonth #ConnecticutPaidLeave #CWHF