A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel
In 1989, Angela Merkel was a quantum chemist with a respectable reputation for applying statistical mathematics to chemical analysis. In 1991, she was a ...
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Command And Control: Meet The All-Women Satellite Ops Crew Who Just Made U.S. Space Force History
Schriever AFB in Colorado, a base of the United States Air Force, houses the world's best space command and control teams. On July 23rd, Schriever’s 2nd S...
The Fourth Castle: The Unfathomable Resiliency Of Pioneering Oceanographer Kathleen Crane
Everyone said I was daft to build a castle on a swamp, but I built it all the same, just to show them. It sank into the swamp. So I built a second ...
An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon
The first astronaut class to include women candidates, announced in 1978 and self-dubbed the TFNG, or Thirty-Five New Guys, brought six women into the variousl...
Meet Design Pioneer Sara Little Turnbull. Her Inspiration Shaped The N95 Mask. Her Many Innovations Still Better Us Today.
By Amy Chen - At a time when women in business were few, Sara Little Turnbull (1917 – 2015), design pioneer, corporate influencer, an American original, earned...
A Tribute To Our Sister, Comrade And Friend Helen Harrison… Firefighter, Changemaker, Champion Of Equality
Firefighter and union leader Helen Harrison passed away on April 18, 2020 at the age of 55 from cancer. A champion of equality, Helen worked tirelessly to ensu...
The First Time I Welded… Penelope Amaya, Age 13, Pens Inspiring Essay On Being Fearless
By Penelope Amaya - It was a rainy Saturday morning in 2019, I was about to go somewhere exciting. I woke up super early because I was excited for this day to ...
Essential Risk: NYC Plumber Judaline Cassidy On Working In Building Trades During COVID-19 Crisis
Judaline Cassidy has been a plumber in NYC for more than two decades. She is a master of her craft, and a champion of equality in the still male-dominated cons...
Killer of Cancer, Slayer of Viruses: The Many Medicines Of Nobel Prize Laureate Gertrude Elion
Generally, our experience of a particular medicine is as a great faceless thing the name of which we don't know until we desperately need it, and the creation ...