History - Women You Should Know®

Dolly Parton Gives Us New ’19th Amendment’ Anthem About Women’s Right To Vote… Volume Up

wyskSeptember 20, 2018

This week, a new song from Dolly Parton hit the digital airwaves that’s a head boppin', toe tappin' historical anthem centered on women’s fight for the legal ri...

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

wyskSeptember 20, 2018

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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A Bay of Botany: Alice Eastwood’s Nine Decades and Three Hundred Thousand Specimens

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 19, 2018

April 18, 1906, and Alice Eastwood's lunch bag hangs casually from a mastodon's tusk while outside, a proud city burns. It is the morning of the great San Fran...

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The Hard Rise And Long Fall Of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), The First Woman MD

Dale DeBakcsySeptember 12, 2018

The long life of Elizabeth Blackwell (1821-1910), the first woman to earn a Medical Degree in America, can be divided into two roughly equal parts: four decades...

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Mary Shelley… What You Should Know About Frankenstein’s Creator

wyskAugust 30, 2018

On what would have been her 221st birthday, we pay homage to Mary Shelley (August 30, 1797 - February 1, 1851), creator of one of the greatest horror stories ev...

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Lymph, There It Is: Florence Sabin, Pioneer Woman of Medical Research

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 22, 2018

For women in science, posterity has three fates in store. Some, like Marie Curie or Rosalyn Yalow, are recognized in their time and remain that way in the hist...

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Nessa Carey, Voice of the Epigenetics Revolution

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 15, 2018

In the halls of scientific nomenclature, there are two terms that are, and have been for some time now, ripe for the chopping block. One is "imaginary number,"...

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The Secrets Stars Keep: Lady Margaret Huggins (1848-1915), Pioneer of Spectral Photography

Dale DeBakcsyAugust 14, 2018

The history of science boasts a robust roster of Vanished Women, wives and sisters who did the work of full partners but received the recognition of mere Lab He...

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

wyskAugust 11, 2018

"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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