In 1952 when Dr. Virginia Apgar developed her score to assess the health of newborns and determine what medical attention they required, most of the focus at a baby’s birth was on the mother.
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The early women engineers in the U.S. had to deal with a good deal of prejudice. They faced discrimination, disbelief that they could be engineers, and other hardships.
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The media has a tremendous influence on our lives; talk show hosts often become a member of the family. Two of the women profiled in Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America became influential and well known talk show hosts.
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Women on Team USA excelled at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Twenty-six of the forty gold medals and sixty-nine of the 126 total medals won by Team USA were won by women.
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Women involved in manufacturing and construction may have been rare in U.S. history – or invisible – but they did exist. Rebecca Webb Lukens ran a steel manufacturing company in the 1800s.
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