Women's History Month Featured Leader: Charlotte Perkins Gilman

​In March, we’re featuring an influential woman every day in honor of Women’s History Month.

Today we’re celebrating:

Charlotte Perkins Gilman

Writer (1860 – 1935)
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• Became a writer and lecturer in her mid-thirties despite receiving four years of erratic education
• Her mother forbade her from reading fiction as a child, but later received a list of books to read from her absent father
• Perkins’ most famous work, “The Yellow Wallpaper,” is a semi-autobiographical short story based on her experience with post-partum depression and dismissive attitude men had toward post-partum women as being ill or hysterical
• Perkins divorced her husband in 1894, a rare practice in the 19th century
• Her book “Women and Economics” argued for women’s economic independence