Two women who are profiled in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America were 
honored during the recent New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Ceremony. This month we are pleased to feature them: Beatrice Hicks, who posthumously received the Advancement of Invention Award, and Shirley Ann Jackson, who received the Trustees Award.
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women who Changed America was listed as the bestselling Nonfiction Paperback this week in the Denver Post!
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The recent announcement that Janet Yellen is President Obama’s choice to chair the Federal Reserve Bank means that, once approved, she will be the first woman ever to hold that position. We have often used the phrase “we stand on their shoulders” as we discuss the women who have come before us and who have done so much. In this instance as well, other women laid the groundwork in the financial industry that enabled Yellen’s appointment. For this month’s enewsletter, we feature two of those pioneers: Sylvia Porter and Muriel Siebert.
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The average life expectancy in 1900 was 45 years of age. By 2000, that number had risen to 78. A significant factor in that increase in average life expectancy was a decrease in infant mortality. Two physicians whose efforts were key are profiled in this month’s enewsletter: Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig and Dr. Virginia Apgar.
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AH – fashion choices – what a quandary! Short skirts, knee -length skirts, spanx, camisoles, scarfs, sleeveless, with sleeves, jackets, no jacket, flats, pumps, 4-inch heels and more! Women in the 21st century have the luxury of dealing with all of these fashion decisions. for many years, fashion was much more proscribed and, for middle -class and upper-class women, included the dreaded corsets! For this issue we discuss some the the significant milestones and contributors to the evolution of women’s clothing and clothing design from the middle 1800s through the end of the 20th century.
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