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Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California’s First Woman Structural Engineer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 14, 2019

In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ev...

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Teen Honors Mom In Winning Doodle For Google Illustration

wyskAugust 14, 2019

Congratulations to high school senior Arantza Peña Popo, who was announced as the winner of the US 2019 Doodle for Google national competition. This ye...

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Ruth Bader Ginsburg: 26 Years As A Justice And Still As Supreme As Ever

wyskAugust 9, 2019

"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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8 Things You Should Know About Elizabeth Holtzman, Pioneering Politician And Serial Glass Ceiling Smasher

wyskAugust 9, 2019

"Politics helps determine the kind of society we’d like to live in. When women aren’t an equal participant in that conversation, it has real-world consequences."...

CareerHistoryPolitics4 Comments5 min read

A Photo Essay: Progress Of The World’s Women

Guest ContributorJuly 18, 2019

By UN WOMEN - As the world around us changes, families, and the role of women and girls within them, are also changing. There is no ‘standard’ form of famil...

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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...

AgricultureBrewers Of ChangeWomen in Science1 Comment14 min read

Girl Scouts Launches 42 New STEM And Outdoor Adventure Badges… That We Want To Earn As Adults

wyskJuly 16, 2019

Girl Scouts of the USA (GSUSA) have just revealed 42 new STEM and Outdoor High Adventure badges exclusively for girls in grades K–12. The badges, which offer g...

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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 ...

BooksGender1 Comment6 min read

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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