JACKSON, Wyo. — On Wednesday, July 23, Teton County Library (TCL), in collaboration with Womentum, is hosting Paths to Power: Lessons from American Women in History, a free conversation about how women gained power and have become agents of change.
Dr. Elisabeth Griffith, activist, historian and author of “Formidable: American Women and the Fight for Equality, 1920-2020,” will lead the discussion from 12 to 1:30 p.m. in the Ordway Auditorium. Dr. Griffith will explore how women contributed to a revolution, improved factory conditions, amended the Constitution and advanced civil rights. Registration to the event is not required.
“Throughout our country’s history, in every community, women have worked to safeguard their families, protect and educate their children and improve infrastructure,” TCL said via press release. “At the same time, women lacked all legal rights — to their bodies, their children, their wages and property, if any. Many were confined to a ‘separate sphere.'”
According to TCL, Dr. Griffith marched for women’s rights, worked to elect women candidates, supported women’s causes as a leader in the National Women’s Political Caucus and the Women’s Campaign Fund, educated students and motivated audiences to take up the banner. Her biography of “Elizabeth Cady Stanton, In Her Own Right” was named “one of the best books of the (last) century” by the editors of The New York Times Book Review and “one of the five best books on women’s history” by the Wall Street Journal in 2009.
