DKG: An International Society for Key Women Educators
Wed, 02/04/2026 - 10:45am
“Nine years after women won the right to vote in the United States of America, Delta Kappa Gamma (DKG) Society was founded to fill the needs of women in the educational profession. At that time, women teachers were offered few leadership positions, promoted rarely, fired easily, and paid less than male colleagues.” Dr. Annie Webb Blanton, a university professor and a former Texas Superintendent of Education, dreamed of and planned for an organization in which women teachers could support one another and recognize themselves as leaders in their chosen profession. She and 11 other women educators, representing different disciplines and under assumed names for fear of losing their jobs, founded the Society on May 11, 1929.
