Women’s History Month Gifts
Dolly Parton isn’t just an iconic singer-songwriter and pandemic hero (whose $1 million donation helped researchers develop a vaccine). She’s also a greeting card maker—her Dolly Parton Greeting Cards Collection from American Greetings includes 20 designs. $7 for three, walmart.com If “nevertheless, they persisted” describes your game nights, then grab the Heroic Women Museum Puzzle, a 1,000-piece eye-bender of a jigsaw with well-known figures like Joan of Arc and Malala Yousafzai. $18, uncommongoods.com Lawyer and former tech exec Meena Harris (her aunt is Vice President Kamala Harris) founded the Phenomenal Woman Action Campaign (a reference to a Maya Angelou poem), which makes statement T-shirts like the Phenomenal MotherTee (seen on Jane Fonda, Connie Britton, Padma Lakshmi and others). Proceeds benefit Families Belong Together, a nonprofit working to end family separation at the U.S.-Mexico border. $35, phenomenalwoman.us Through the stories of several longtime flight attendants, author Julia Cooke looks at the gritty and glamorous Mad Men–era glory days of air travel in Come Fly the World: The Jet-Age Story of the Women of Pan Am (Houghton Mifflin Harcourt). $28, amazon.com Adorn your fridge with favorite female creatives like Frida Kahlo, Dolly Parton, Mrs. Maisel and more. Kahlo Artista Mexicana Round Magnet, $5.50, thefound.com From Silk Road Bazaar, Handmade Felt Ornaments (crafted by artisans in Central Asia) like the Suffragette and Super Nurse honor the memorable women—past and present—in our lives. $24, etsy.com Available on a sticker, mug, tote or art print, the Rainbow Inauguration Illustration by small-business artist and mom Jennifer Vallez stars Jennifer Lopez, Lady Gaga, National Youth Poet Laureate Amanda Gorman, first lady Jill Biden, VP Kamala Harris and former first lady Michelle Obama. $5–$24, jennifervallez.com For young readers interested in STEM, Wonder Women of Science (March 23, Candlewick) by aerospace engineer Tiera Fletcher and author Ginger Rue features 12 science superstars on the cutting edge of research. $20, barnesandnoble.com Greta Thunberg and RBG are just two Ceramic Mug muses for Feminist Doodles, a company that merges playful cartoons with important issues for kids and grown-ups alike. $19, feministdoodles.com In When Women Invented Television Women We Love (March 23, Harper), Jennifer Keishin Armstrong tells of four pioneering women (including a young Betty White) who shaped the early days of TV and the money, politics and sexism that stole the reins. $28, bookshop.org “Find something you’re passionate about and keep tremendously interested in it,” said the queen of French cuisine, Julia Child, who graces a marvelous laminated Hand-Painted Bookmark from Sentimental Favorite. $4.50, etsy.com Build your own Feminist Women Bookend Set featuring illustrations of Ruth Bader Ginsburg, Michelle Obama, Maya Angelou, Gloria Steinem and Kamala Harris. $44 for two, getarchd.com
