Category Archives: women’s history month

New quarter dollar series proposed to honor prominent American women

Suffragists picketing in front of the White House circa February 1917.
By Louis Golino
On March 15, during Women’s History Month, a bipartisan effort was launched in Congress to direct the U

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Celebrating women’s history at the United States Mint

Here at the United States Mint, women have been making history for more than two centuries. The Mint hired the first female Federal employees ever at the Philadelphia Mint facility in 1795 as adjusters

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