Celebrating Women’s History Month
This year, our theme for Women’s History Month is Empowering Communities, Advancing Justice, and it will be informed by the topics for the 2024 YWCA Racial Justice Challenge, providing an opportunity to explore how women have advanced equity for each topic of the Racial Justice Challenge and what YWCA is doing to advance equity in communities across America.
Madinah Brown, a passionate Domestic Violence and Sexual Assault Community Housing Case Manager at YWCA Delaware is committed to empowering survivors. She also advocates for religious freedom and workplace diversity.
Jazmine Wildcat is an advocate and new voice in the work to end violence against Native women who began her advocacy at just 10 years old.
Dolores Huerta is an American labor leader and civil rights activist who champions immigrants’ rights, women's rights, and economic justice. Read how she became one of the most influential activists of the 20th century.
Rosalynn Carter was a leading advocate for women's rights and a humanitarian who championed causes such as mental health and caregiving, intersecting the two into the creation of the Rosalynn Carter Institute for Caregiving, which promotes the health, strength, and resilience of all caregivers.
In 1903, Maggie L. Walker became both the first African American woman to charter a bank and the first African American woman to serve as a bank president.
Transgender activist Sylvia Rivera fought against the exclusion of transgender people from the Sexual Orientation Non-Discrimination Act in New York. The final bill passed in 2002 and prevents discrimination “on the basis of actual or perceived sexual orientation in employment, housing, public accommodations, education, credit, and the exercise of civil rights.”