Women's History Month, March 2025

"As women achieve power, the barriers will fall. As society sees what women can do, as women see what women can do, there will be more women out there doing things, and we’ll all be better off for it.” – Ruth Bader Ginsburg, former US Supreme Court Associate Justice

Updated February 27, 2025
F
Fond du Lac Public Library
Drag items up and down to your preferred order then select the "Save Order" button.
The immortal life of Henrietta Lacks
Skloot, Rebecca
Paper Book
A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER NOW ADAPTED INTO A HBO FILM STARRING OPRAH WINFREY & ROSE BYRNE"No dead woman has done more for the living . . . A fascinating, harrowing, necessary book" Hilary Mantel, The GuardianHer name was Henrietta Lacks, but scientists know her as HeLa. Born a poor black tobacco...

616.0277 Skloot 2010

The radium girls : they paid with their lives, their final fight was for justice
Moore, Kate
Paper Book
Emma Watson's Our Shared Shelf book club choice New York Times bestseller 'Fascinating' Sunday Times 'Thrilling' ★★★★★ Mail on Sunday ...

363.1799 Moore 2017

Hidden figures the American dream and the untold story of the Black women mathematicians who helped win the space race
Lee Shetterly, Margot
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller The phenomenal true story of the black female mathematicians at NASA whose calculations helped fuel some of America's greatest achievements in space--a powerful, revelatory history essential to our understanding of race, discrimination, and achievement in...

510.92 L516 2016

Women in science : 50 fearless pioneers who changed the world
Ignotofsky, Rachel
Paper Book
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * This "wittily illustrated [and] accessible volume" (The Wall Street Journal) highlights the contributions of fifty notable women to the fields of science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) from the ancient to the modern world....

509.22 Ig5 2016


Library staff! You can create and contribute to lists. Contact your catalog administrator or log in here.