Women's Birthdays & Milestones
August 26
Peggy Guggenheim b. 1898-art collector
Geraldine Ferraro b. 1935-1st woman US vice-presidential candidate
1920: US 19th Amendment ratified, woman suffrage
Women's Equality Day, US
Quote for the Day
"Let women be provided with living strength of their own. Let them have the means to attack the world and wrest from it their own subsistence, and their dependence will be abolished--that of man also."~ Simone de Beauvoir
ANNUAL EVENTS & CONFERENCES FOR AUGUST
Women's Equality Day, commemorates US women's suffrage, 1920: August 26
- AIDS/HIV & STDs International Conference, World Health Organization, Switzerland: 41-22-791-2111
- Amercan Sociological Association Committee on the Status of Women & Sex & Gender Section: 202-833-3410
- Birth Gazette Conference: 42, The Farm, Summertown, TN 38483-9626
- Caucus for Women in Statistics: 614-292-2866
- Elderflower Womenspirit Festival: Redwood City, CA, 916-556-4840
- Michigan Womyn's Music Festival: 616-757-4766
- National Coalition of Education Activists annual conference: 914-876-4580
- National Conference of Women's Bar Associations, ABA, annual meeting: 919-482-8202
- Psychology of Women Program, American Psychological Association annual convention: 602-912-5300
- Sociologists for Women in Society: 402-280-2635
- Women Celebrating Our Diversity annual festival: Twin Oaks Community Women's Gathering, Rte. 4, Box 169, Louisa, VA 23093; 703-894-5126
- Women's Herbal Conference, annual international alternative health workshops & herbal emporium: 802-479-9825; 413-625-6875
Reprinted from The WomanSource Catalog & Review's, "women's perpetual calendar"