I have been a history teacher (students aged 11 to 18) for 25 years. I first became interested in women's history when I began studying the struggle for universal suffrage. When I first started my Spartacus Educational website in 1997 I was determined to record as much as I could about these amazing women who sacrificed so much in their attempt to gain the vote. I am therefore the author of Emancipation of Women and Women's Suffrage in the United States.

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/women.htm

http://www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/USAwomen.htm

I am the Head of History in an inner city boys 11-16 comprehensive and have been teaching for 11 years. I have been interested in Women's History for many years and studied the history of the First and Second wave women's movement at University. The thesis that I wrote for my M.A. was about the Suffragettes and specifically a small organisation called the Jewish League for Women Suffrage.

In 1994, I established a secure, online bookselling service, Naomi Symes Books, which supplies academics, academic libraries, collectors and history enthusiasts worldwide. We specialise in out-of-print, antiquarian and in-print titles in the fields of social history and women's history: http://www.naomisymes.com
The business builds on my own experiences of studying and teaching History. I took a degree in History at Queens' College, Cambridge University (1991), and then a Masters in Historical Research at Lancaster University (1993). For 7 years, I taught History (A Level, A/S and A2) to 16 - 18 year-olds in York and then Manchester. My particular interests are British women's history and social history post 1750.

Naomi Symes.
Naomi Symes Books, P.B.F.A.
Cheshire, UK.
http://www.naomisymes.com
Email: books@naomisymes.com

Lyn Reese of Berkeley, California, is director and founder of Women in World History Curriculum. She holds a B.A. in History from Mount Holyoke, an MA in History from Stanford University, and has served as resource teacher in California schools. Lyn began developing World History curriculum after receiving a number of U.S. Department of Education Women’s Educational Equity Act grants. She has presented at numerous teacher workshops both nationally and internationally, has researched and published seventeen world history curriculum units for middle and high school levels, written articles for educational journals, contributed to U.S. history texts, CDs, and anthologies on women’s history. In addition, she created and maintains the Women in World History Curriculum web site which provides content, lesson plans, and ways to access curriculum materials. Currently she also is helping create exhibit themes and school programs for the new San Francisco International Museum of Women.

Dutch 'womens history' has some interesting links to American womens history. Aletta Jacobs and Carrie Chapman Catt were friends and together they visited belligerent countries during WW1.
Was the right to vote the issue during the 1st 'feminist wave' (1890-1919), the right of women to decide on their own body (the pill, abortion) equal rights in education and career was the aim of the 2nd feminist wave (1967-1980) in the Netherlands. Interesting enough to ask question which I'm willing to answer
Nico Zijlstra (male teacher, Heerlen, The Netherlands)