To celebrate Women's History Month in March, the award-winning series “Unladylike2020” announced that its content is now available with Spanish subtitles.

According to official website “UNLADYLIKE2020 is a series of 26 short films and a one-hour documentary profiling diverse and little-known American women from the turn of the 20th century, and contemporary women who follow in their footsteps. Winner of the 2020 Women Transforming Media award, the series premiered on PBS’s American Masters in honor of the centennial of women's suffrage, and is narrated by acclaimed actors Julianna Margulies and Lorraine Toussaint”. 

“Two prominent Latinas — Jovita Idar, a teacher, journalist, nurse, civil rights activist, and founder of the League of Mexican Women, one of the first known Latina feminist organizations; and Ynés Mexía, one of the earliest participants in the budding environmental movement of the 1910s, and a fearless botanical researcher who discovered over 500 new plant species across North and South America— are featured in the series”, according to Latino Rebels.

“Unladylike2020 also profiles Bessie Coleman, the first African American to earn an international pilot’s license; Susan La Flesche Picotte, the first American Indian physician who also founded a hospital on the Omaha Reservation; Jeannette Rankin, the first woman elected to the U.S. Congress; Gertrude Ederle, the first woman to swim across the English Channel; and Lois Weber, the first woman to direct a feature-length film, among many others”, among many other prominent women.

All digital resources and translations of the documentary shorts in the series were made possible by the collaboration of Stanford University's Haas Center for Public Service, whose Spanish course students translated all digital scripts, as well as educational resources for each. Of the 26 women, as part of their process of learning to read and write in Spanish.

The Unladylike2020 series has attracted an audience of more than 5.6 million viewers to date and was recognized with a 2021 Telly Award, honoring excellence in video and television. The Unladylike2020 documentary short profiling Jovita Idar was awarded the 2021 Imagen Award for Best Short Film. The series was also nominated for an NAACP Image Award in the Outstanding Short Form Series – Reality/Nonfiction category.

In order to investigate why women are vastly underrepresented in U.S. history and in Social Science curriculum, the series made possible a national campaign of community events and the convening of the event titled “Where Are the Women?”. The campaign was supported by PBS LearningMedia, the partner of PBS's flagship biographies series, the American Masters, and other entities such as WNET, National Women's History Museum, National Council for the Social Studies, National Council for History Education, National Women's Hall of Fame, and National Women's History Alliance.