Dale DeBakcsy, Author at Women You Should Know®

The Queen Of Trees: Nobel Laureate Wangari Maathai And The Rise Of The Green Belt Movement

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 17, 2019

Imagine a patch of land brimming with rich topsoil. Within that dark brown earth lies the core of a civilization - its ability to feed itself. Prot...

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The Most Important Book I Have Ever Read… Caroline Criado Perez’s “Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed by Men”

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 11, 2019

Consider Julie. She wakes up at 4:30 to prepare breakfast for her children and her husband's great uncle who lives across town while the rest of her family ...

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Trapped in a Velvet Prison: The Private Musical Genius of Fanny Mendelssohn

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 10, 2019

Mendelssohn. Thirty years ago, that name carried two associations: as the surname of Moses Mendelssohn, the philosopher who brought a modernized Judaism int...

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An All Too Brief History Of The Women’s World Cup

Dale DeBakcsyJune 27, 2019

The first thing you need to know about the FIFA Women's World Cup is that, when it debuted in 1991, it was not the FIFA Women's World Cup. It was, and I am not...

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Nobel Prize Laureate Christiane Nüsslein-Volhard And The Mysteries Of Embryo Development

Dale DeBakcsyJune 26, 2019

How is it that, starting from a single fertilized egg, employing only mechanical processes, you can form a kangaroo, a housefly, or a human? It is one of the m...

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Barbara Strozzi, Master Of The 17th Century Love Song

Dale DeBakcsyJune 19, 2019

Between the monophonic spirituality of Hildegard of Bingen and the lush, human lyricism of Barbara Strozzi (1619-1677) there lie five centuries, a Renaissance,...

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The Women’s Space Program That Wasn’t: The Story Of The Mercury 13

Dale DeBakcsyJune 12, 2019

The story of the Mercury 13, as it is usually told, features 13 heroes, 2 villains, and a throng of supportive roles stretched between them in the grey. ...

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A Voice Across 900 Years: Hildegard Of Bingen, Europe’s First Composer

Dale DeBakcsyJune 5, 2019

Author's note: In the United States, of the 537 conductors registered with the League of American Orchestras, only 60 (or 11%) are women, and of the 24 largest...

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Mary Sherman Morgan, The World’s First Woman Rocket Scientist

Dale DeBakcsyMay 29, 2019

On October 4, 1957, the United States received the greatest single blow to its prestige since the burning of the White House in 1814 with the announcement that...

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