MWHC News
Come celebrate our legacy on October 4th
(September 11, 2025) After painful, but necessary, months of research, deliberations and thought, the Maryland Women’s Heritage Center Board of Directors voted to dissolve the MWHC as of December 31, 2025. But we are not leaving without a celebration of all that we...
Let’s shine light on Maryland’s women lighthouse keepers of the past
(May 8, 2025) One look at the Chesapeake Bay’s shallow depths, sandbars and irregular coastline and it is easy to see why Maryland had so many operating lighthouses during the 19th and 20th centuries. What’s surprising, though, are how many women lighthouse keepers guided ships and likely saved untold lives during those years.
Program: How Melissa Ludtke fought for equal access for women sports journalists
(March 18, 2025) In 1978, as a young sports journalist, Melissa Ludtke won a lawsuit for the right to be allowed in Major League Baseball locker rooms. Join the discussion on March 20 at 7:00 p.m. as she looks back on how she pioneered equal participation by women in...
Maryland Nonprofits: All invited to an urgent “Public Conversation on Justice, Diversity, Equity, Inclusion and Accessibility”
(March 1, 2025) Maryland Nonprofits is hosting an open community conversation about the importance of justice, diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility. Nonprofit leaders, foundations, civic leaders, elected officials, business leaders, and members of the...
Photographer Anne Calamuci focuses on +55 women in AGELESS CREATIVITY
(February 6, 2025) "I turned 60 and became keenly aware of the negative, off-the cuff comments about women at that age on television, in movies and during talk show interviews. There’s some kind of mystique that once we turn a certain age that we have nothing left to...
We owe it to our foremothers to use our voice, programs and advocacy to fight for equality
(February 1, 2025) Since inauguration day 2025, reports have emerged about massive proposed and actual funding cuts to services for vulnerable people; public slurs against people with disabilities; and cancellations of programs and observance days that honor women,...
See the future and nominate a promising student for the Maryland Young Women Leadership Award
(January 23, 2025) From the Maryland Commission for Women: Do you know a young woman between the ages of 11 and 20 who has taken a leadership role to advance the rights of women and girls? Maybe she has advocated for menstrual hygiene products in school or helped...
President Biden issues statement about the Equal Rights Amendment
(January 17, 2025) President Biden today issued a statement in regard to the ongoing efforts to have the 28th Amendment become law. The Amendment reads: Equality of rights under the law shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any state on account of...
Bernice Friedland created a 78-year legacy of service in Cumberland (and hasn’t stopped yet)
(January 16, 2025) Young at heart and thriving in her 98th year of life, Bernice Friedland exudes vitality as I chat with her one late summer afternoon in her beautiful, light-filled living room. We are surrounded by the woodland, birds, flowers, and wildlife that...
Del. Heather A. Bagnall moves to exonerate Maryland’s 17th- and 18th- century accused witches
(January 12, 2025) At first glance, Delegate Heather A. Bagnall’s (D-Anne Arundel) bill HJ0002 that seeks to exonerate the Maryland women (and one man) who were accused or tried for witchcraft centuries ago might seem to pale against today’s pressing legislative...