Meryl Streep's next project: A national women's history museum

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'Meryl Streep arrives in movie theaters Friday with “The Iron Lady,” playing former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher — the first female head of state in the Western world.

Women's place in history is a subject on Streep's mind of late. Her next off-screen project is the National Women's History Museum, an entity that exists so far only in cyberspace and that the actress is trying to get erected in brick and mortar on a site adjacent to the National Mall in Washington, D.C.

“History until the 20th century was written by one member of the human family and it wasn’t the mother,” Streep said in a mid-December interview in New York City with her “Iron Lady” director, Phyllida Lloyd. “It was dad. That’s who wrote history and ... what was important? Movements of armies, sovereignty of nations, all sorts of things. But women were there all along and they have incredible stories that we don’t know anything about.”'

When suffragettes picketed the Wilson White House for women's right to vote, thousands of American men were being killed and maimed in WWI without their right to vote. In more recent history, approx. 42% of the more than 58,000 men whose names are on the Vietnam War Memorial Wall in D.C. died for America w/o the right to vote.