Hawaii's Women of Courage exhibit
Take a Sneak Peek this Friday March 22 and discuss the "Women of Courage" exhibit opening later this year.
A Multi-Generational Talk Story
These Women Changed Society
Hawaii has problems to solve. Can lessons from the past provide the answers we need?
Identify the traits needed to be a leader of change.
Women of Courage
Patsy Mink
Author of Title IX in 1972, which ended gender discrimination at U.S. medical schools and opened female participation in school athletics. Today, more than 50% of medical students are women and you can find women earning a living as professional athletes.
She was first elected to the Territorial House of Representative in 1956 and elected to the U.S. Congress in 1964. She graduated from Maui High School in 1944, the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1948 and the University of Chicago Law School in 1951. She was the first Japanese-American woman to practice law in Hawaii.
Pat Saiki
Responsible for stopping the bombing of Kaho'olawe by the
US military in 1990.
Active in the Republican party, she was first elected to the State House of Representatives in 1968. She passed legislation to decriminalize abortion, allowing Hawaii in 1970 to be the first state in the nation to provide legal, medically safe abortions. In 1986 she was elected to the U.S. Congress. While head of the U.S. Small Business Administration from 1991-1993 she laid the foundation for opening Women Business Centers in all 50 states, to provide training to help women launch new businesses. Today there are over 13 million women business owners in America.
She graduated from Hilo High School in 1948, the University of Hawaii at Manoa in 1952 and was a teacher at Punahou, Kaimuki Intermediate
and Kalani High School.
Haunani-Kay Trask
A leader of the Hawaiian Sovereignty movement, her 1993 book "From a Native Daughter: Colonialism and Sovereignty in Hawai’i"
continues to be used as a foundational text about indigenous rights that is studied around the world.
She is also the author of "Eros and Power: The Promise of Feminist Theory."
She founded the Kamakakūokalani Center for Hawaiian Studies at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. A prominent thought leader, she was invited by the United Nations in Geneva to represent Hawai’i in the UN's international work to protect the human rights of Indigenous Populations.
She graduated from Kamehameha Schools in 1967 and earned her Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1981.
She was professor emerita at the University of Hawai'i at Manoa.
Patsy Mink T-Shirt
She Changed America
Proceeds will go towards building the Women of Courage exhibit at the Inspiration Hawaii Museum. www.InspirationHawaiiMuseum.com
Shirt designed by: Rhadney Capili
Printed by: Chelsa Deptula, Surfvivor in Waipahu
(woman-owned business)
Events
March 28 - Thursday
Patsy Mink official Quarter from U.S. Mint available at museum gift shop.
Help Our Cause
Your support and contributions will enable us to build the Women of Courage exhibit.
Suggested donation $15