It’s Women’s History Month, which means it’s time to celebrate the achievements of women in leather and boots. She-Wolf, the biker gang leader in the 1989 parody flick “Easy Wheels,” and motorcycle safety pioneer Marjie Jennings are among the tribute subjects this weekend at the Field Museum of Natural History. In addition to the women- centered lectures and films at the museum this weekend in conjunction with “The Art of the Motorcycle,” an exhibition running through March 21, the Field is also sponsoring a women’s motorcycle ride. (We’re guessing the museum encourages Marjie Jennings, not She-Wolf, behavior.) To be part of the ride, show up at 7 a.m. Saturday at the Billy Goat Inn, 1535 W. Madison St.; the ride begins at 8:15 a.m., and tickets are $20, or $16 in advance. For info on the ride and other events going on at the museum this weekend, call 312-322-8859.
More sedate – but not much – is a film at the Harold Washington Library about cowgirls, from 6 to 60 years old, who work on ranches in Wyoming, Oregon, California and Nevada. The free “Cowgirls: Portraits of American Ranch Women,” part of a monthlong Chicago Public Library series for Women’s History Month, is at 12:15 p.m. Saturday at the library’s video theater, 400 S. State St. 312-747-4700.