Trailblazers - Women You Should Know®

Valentina Tereshkova: The First Woman In Space

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2019

"It is I, Sea Gull!" The words, full of meaning both personal for the speaker and cultural for the country listening below, were the first spoken by a woman...

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You Should Know Monopoly Inventor Lizzie Magie… And Hasbro Should Finally Give This Trailblazer Her Credit Due

wyskSeptember 12, 2019

On Tuesday, game-maker Hasbro introduced Ms. Monopoly, "the first game in the franchise that celebrates women trailblazers." The press release goes on to say, ...

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Untold And Lost No More: Celebrating 150 Episodes Of Dale DeBakcsy’s ‘Women In Science’ You Should Know Column

wyskSeptember 5, 2019

Five years into our now eight year mission to tell the untold, often ignored, and altogether lost or erased stories of women who deserve a giant spotlight on t...

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Spherical Triangles and Domineering Males: The Saga Of Mathematician Grace Chisholm Young

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 4, 2019

When Grace Chisholm, at age 28, married the mathematician William Henry Young, she had every prospect of a brilliant career before her. The previous year she ...

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Caroline Haslett And The Rise Of The Women’s Engineering Society

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 28, 2019

1919 was a year of promise born of misery. Between the ravages of influenza and the indiscriminate trench carnage of the First World War, millions had pe...

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Kirsten Flagstad And How The “Voice Of The Century” Was Nearly Silenced

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 21, 2019

In June of 1946, the greatest Wagnerian soprano of her era, perhaps the greatest of all time, cabled to her longtime accompanist the news that her husband had ...

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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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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."...

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One Of The Few: Florence Price, America’s First Black Woman Composer

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 7, 2019

1888 was not an auspicious year for a black girl to be born in the United States. The Federal government had ignominiously turned tail on Reconstruction ...

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