Please join the Office of Diversity and Inclusion and WOUB Public Media for a free screening of Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics at 5:30 p.m., Wednesday, March 20, in the Anderson Hancock Planetarium. The hour-long documentary film was produced by WBGU and examines the achievements of Democratic and Republican women who have broken electoral barriers in Ohio.
Greeted with skepticism by voters beginning in the 1960s, each trailblazer overcame obstacles and sometimes hostility to get elected. Featured trailblazers include the first woman Speaker of the Ohio House of Representatives, the first African American woman lieutenant governor in all 50 states, and the longest-serving woman in the U.S. House of Representatives.
Made possible through a partnership with WOUB Public Media.