Empowerment

47 Years Ago Today: Billie Jean King Defeated Bobby Riggs In Battle Of The Sexes

wyskSeptember 20, 2020

More than 50 million Americans tuned in to watch, making it the most viewed U.S. tennis match of all time. More importantly, King's victory made it a game-changer for women’s tennis....

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NASA Astronaut Dr. Jeanette Epps Set To Make History As Part Of First Operational Boeing Crew Mission To ISS

wyskSeptember 1, 2020

NASA has assigned astronaut Dr. Jeanette Epps to NASA’s Boeing Starliner-1 mission, the first operational crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner spacecraf...

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Sojourner, Susan, And Elizabeth To Make History In NYC’s Central Park On August 26… Watch Live Unveil Of Their Monumental Statue

wyskAugust 25, 2020

After 6 long years of challenging work and a tireless fight waged by the all-volunteer nonprofit, Monumental Women, history will be made tomorrow - Wednesday, ...

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Ida B. Wells, Women’s Suffrage And Civil Rights Hero, To Be Honored With 1,000 Square-Foot Photo Mosaic In DC’s Union Station

wyskAugust 20, 2020

It’s National Women's Suffrage Month, a designation by Congress in collaboration with the Women's Suffrage Centennial Commission (WSCC) to commemorat...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 27 Years As A Justice And Still As Supreme As Ever

wyskAugust 9, 2020

"Ruth Bader Ginsburg entered a legal world where the best jobs were off-limits to women and emerged as a Supreme Court Justice."...

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A Scientist Takes The Helm: The Story of German Chancellor Angela Merkel

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 29, 2020

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

wyskJuly 28, 2020

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...

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The Fourth Castle: The Unfathomable Resiliency Of Pioneering Oceanographer Kathleen Crane

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 22, 2020

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 ...

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An ER Doctor In Space: The Story of Astronaut Rhea Seddon

Dale DeBakcsyJuly 8, 2020

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...

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