W.W.W.I.H.D. : What Would Women In History Do?

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An artistic image of different women's faces in a rainbow splash of color

Happy Women’s History Month from the Cape Girardeau Public Library! We should definitely celebrate women and their accomplishments all the time, but it’s nice to take a month and really focus on what women can do when given the chance and honestly what they can do even when they aren’t. It’s also a great time to take a look at the women around you and acknowledge the wonderful things they have achieved. If you look hard enough, I think you will be amazed at all the heroes, icons, and role models around you. It might be cliché, but my mom is my biggest hero and inspiration. And she just so happened to fill my life with strong, independent, and intelligent women to look up to.

If you ever feel discouraged or lack the confidence in completing a task, just do what I do and think: W.W.W.I.H.D. - What Would Women In History Do? Turns out, it’s quite a bit! For almost every interest you could dream up, good or bad, there is a woman out there paving the way to greatness or at the very least infamy. 

Back in February, we covered trailblazing females in sports with National Girls and Women in Sports Day. From tennis to football and everything in between, girls and women were rocking it with the best of the boys. And sports isn’t the only spot where women have made waves, changed the story, and rewrote history. You can see their marks in the science fields (space, medical, botanical, biological, etc.), math world (engineering, computers, etc.), literary spaces (authors, journalists, editors, poets), movie industries (production, writing, animation, special effects), leading countries and governments (queens, monarchs, supreme court justices)...the list is endless because the possibilities and realities are also endless. 

Want to take a closer look? We did too! And we created a list for you to look over and discover something new about the wonderful women throughout history. When in doubt, just remember W.W.W.I.H.D.? Because, guys, it’s kind of  a lot. And if they can do it, so can we!
 

Cover features the portrait of a young renaissance woman surrounded by orange, pink and yellow flowers.
A Gold record sits in the center of the orange cover surrounded by flowers in oranges, pinks, and yellows
Yellow cover with the title When Women Invented Television stacked from top to bottom with pictures of the women in question resting against the words of the title.
Green and Blue Cover shows a lady drawing a monster
A woman in a black and white photo paints a still for an animation studio
Jane Goodall, the author, sits with her face toward the camera and a forest behind her.
This black and white cover has the image of some of the first lady explorers set against a backdrop of a map
This red and yellow cover shows an ancient female warrior fighting from horseback
The cover shows a black and white photo of a woman examining ancient test on an Egyptian ruin.
Cover is all black except for an image of a bust in color of Hatshepsut, one of the first female kings of Egypt. Golden line shines from behind her.
Sandra Day O'Connor stands in her supreme court attire in a black and white photo.
Cover features part of a renaissance painting of a woman's hand touching a globe.
The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks cover
Cream colored cover with a government building behind a woman standing tall in a white dress with gold sleeves on the left and purple sleeves on the right.
Yellow Cover with a group of oil pastel people standing in line along the bottom
A woman stands on the front in a white dress/coat holding a doctors bag. She faces away from the reader
Two women in Edwardian era style dresses stand together against a royal blue backdrop. Only the bottoms of their faces can be seen from the nose down.
A rocket blasts of into a blue sky full of clouds and rocket smoke while a group of ladies who helped lead the way to space stand together at the bottom
A black and white photo stretches the whole cover of four women walking amongst military planes with the title in bright blue above their heads.
Red cover features four women's faces partially hidden by a cream colored diamond with the title on the front
Cover for A House in the Mountains
A black and white photo of the code girls in question shows them gathered at the bottom of the book cover in their uniforms. The title sits above them in gold letters
A Dark blue cover features a woman's face peering from the darkness with the title in gold above her and the author's name in red below her.
Cover for the Exceptions
A teal/green backdrop shows a woman's torso cooking in the kitchen above and a scientist measuring chemicals at the bottom.
Blue cover with red lettering that states the title "The Genius of Women"
The image of a skill made of dots is being walked across by a woman in a black and white striped dress holding a parasol
cover of A moment on the edge
a feminine hand holds a quill pen and writes on a piece of parchment
The cover is a black and white photo of 8 black women clustered together.
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