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American women's history can be seen through many lenses that help tell a more complete story of our nation. 

Native American women warriors
American Indian Women
Graphic with five quarter designs featuring the women listed in this article

2022 American Women Quarters™ Program designs. Copyright United States Mint. Used with permission.

 American Women Quarters Program
Judy Oyama on a skateboard

Black and white photograph of pro skater Judi Oyama while she was on the Santa Cruz skate team. 

 Asian Pacific American Women
Photograph of women activists with signs for voter registration

This photograph is part of a scrapbook that was compiled in 1956 and 1957 by Frances Albrier during her term as president of the San Francisco Chapter of the National Council of Negro Women (NCNW). The scrapbook highlights the Chapter’s efforts to register voters and educate Bay Area residents on the importance of voting as a part of the Citizenship Education Project..

 Black Women
Screenprint of Lydia Mendoza playing the guitar

“Lydia Mendoza, Ciudad Juarez, 1937” by Ester Hernández, 1987. Screenprint on paper. National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution; acquisition made possible through the Smithsonian Latino Initiatives Pool, administered by the Smithsonian Latino Center. © 1987 Ester Hernández 

 Latinas
Marchers in the New York City Gay Pride Parade holding a white banner with the words "Salsa Soul Sister 3rd World Women"
LGBTQ+ Women
The advantages of being a woman artist with list of ironic advantages

The advantages of being a woman artist (from Portfolio Compleat: 1985-2012)
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, Joseph H. Hirshhorn Purchase Fund, 2014 1988

 Women Artists
Brownie Wise being handed a Saleswoman of the Year Award by three men in suits

Brownie Wise/Saleswoman of the Year Award, 1956
Brownie Wise Papers, 1938-1968, Archives Center, National Museum of American History

 Women in Business
Painting of Mary Golda Ross wearing a red dress and pearls against a night sky background with a 7-point star a missile and Cherokee syllabary writing

Ad Astra per Astra by America Meredith, depicting Mary Gold Ross. Image courtesy of the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

 Women in Technology
collage of diverse women inventors
Women Innovators
American chemist Joyce Jacobson Kaufman shown holding a molecular model

American chemist Joyce Jacobson Kaufman (b. 1929), shown holding a molecular model. She is noted for carrying out the first all-valence-electron, three-dimensional quantum-chemical calculations, and for research on the clinical effects of tranquilizers and narcotic drugs.
Smithsonian Institution Archives, Accession 90-105, Science Service Records, Image No. SIA2008-4572

 Women Scientists
Woman Suffrage Votes for Women Pennant
Pennant used by supporters of woman suffrage. “Votes for Women” was one of the most popular and recognizable slogans used by members of the woman’s suffrage movement.
 Women's Suffrage
skateboard with pink heart and words girl is not a 4 letter word

Girl Is Not a 4 Letter Word skateboard created by Cindy Whitehead

 Youth
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