Women100 Series

Women100 is a series celebrating a century of progress since women won the right to vote and set the agenda to achieve economic, political and social equality.

Each weekly one minute program focuses on the achievement of one woman who changed our world.

After almost a century of protests, the 19th Amendment, granting women the right to vote, was passed in 1919. It said: “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation.”

WHYY produced the series in collaboration with Drexel University’s Institute for Women’s Health and Leadership. The project is focused on the unfinished business of women’s equality, with special emphasis on shared leadership among women and men in business, the arts, science, government and beyond.

Featured women in this series include:

• Indra Nooyi
• Jeannette Rankin
• Shirley Chisholm
• Dawn Staley
• Alva Belmont
• Grace Hopper
• Emma Gonzalez
• Gloria Steinem
• Mary Church Terrell

Hear this series Monday on WITF 89.5 & 93.3 through June and July at 6:50am, 10:18am and 1:31pm.