Women in the Professions and Business Homemaking and farming were the first occupations of pioneering Indianapolis women who settled in the city along with men in… Read More »Women in the Professions and Business
Women’s Christian Temperance Union Women founded the Women’s Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) in 1874 in Hillsboro, Ohio, with the initial purpose to promote abstinence… Read More »Women’s Christian Temperance Union
Women’s Education Since the early 19th century, the methods and goals of women’s education in America have reflected dominant societal definitions of… Read More »Women’s Education
Women’s Rights and Suffrage The first Conference on Women’s Rights took place in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848. Its primary issues of women’s… Read More »Women’s Rights and Suffrage
Women’s Voluntary Organizations Women have founded and volunteered for a wide range of recreational, educational, and charitable activities throughout Indiana history. Women’s benevolence… Read More »Women’s Voluntary Organizations
Women4Change Women4Change (W4C) is a nonpartisan, grassroots, collaborative organization whose mission is to equip and mobilize women to engage effectively in… Read More »Women4Change
Work Force Founded in the first two decades of the 19th century, Indianapolis remained a small town until the late 1840s. Business… Read More »Work Force
Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA) The YWCA incorporated in 1892 to promote the “physical, intellectual, social, and spiritual advancement of young women,” especially young working… Read More »Young Women’s Christian Association (YWCA)
Tamara Zahn (June 22, 1953-Oct. 1, 2020). Downtown leader, community volunteer, and mentor, Tamara Zahn was born in 1953 in Fort Wayne,… Read More »Tamara Zahn
Ann Kurker Zarick (May 10, 1897-Jan. 27, 1970). Ann Kurker Zarick was a successful and well-known leader within Syrian and Lebanese women’s and… Read More »Ann Kurker Zarick
