Gerda lerner feminist jokes

Gerda Lerner is the reason why Women’s History Month exists.

Born into a wealthy Jewish family in Vienna, Lerner (née Kronstein) experienced what it was like to quickly lose privilege and a sense of security when Austria was annexed by Germany in 1938.

After surviving the Holocaust, she emigrated to America alone.

Gerda lerner feminist jokes

She earned her Ph.D. at 46 and went on to pioneer the field of women’s history, creating the first graduate program in women’s history at Sarah Lawrence College in 1972. She recalled:

 “When I started working on women's history the field did not exist.

People didn't think that women had a history worth knowing.”

By the time Dr. Lerner convened the first conference of women historians in 1979, the field of women’s history was gaining momentum and national prominence. As the Women's Action Alliance and the Smithsonian Institution came to a close in the summer of 1979, a large-scale project was proposed: the creation of a national weeklong celebration of women’s histo