by Amy Land | Jun 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
May 2018 was a month in which women achieved firsts in politics and government. Gina Haspel became the first female director of the Central Intelligence Agency, after her confirmation by the U.S. Senate. Stacey Abrams became the first African-American woman to win a major party nomination for Governor, when the Democrats in Georgia put her on their slate. Their accomplishments are significant; we cannot forget that the groundwork was laid by many other earlier women, including two profiled in this month’s enewsletter: Jeannette Rankin and Sandra Day O’Connor. Both Rankin and O’Connor have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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by Amy Land | May 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Public education as we know it in the United States was not available prior to the middle of the 1800s. Women led education reform in many areas including in the establishment of Sunday Schools. In this month’s enewsletter we feature two Sunday School Pioneers: Catherine Ferguson and Rebecca Gratz.
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by Amy Land | Apr 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
One area of technological focus in the twenty-first century is using robots to do work that is either tedious for, or dangerous to humans. Like every other field of endeavor, women are involved in developing, refining, and improving robots. In this month’s enewsletter we feature two female roboticists: Ayanna Howard and Helen Greiner.
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by Amy Land | Feb 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Only twelve artists have achieved the entertainer’s equivalent of ‘horsedom’s’ Triple Crown – EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards) and four of them are women. The four are Rita Moreno, Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, and Whoopi Goldberg. In this month’s enewsletter we learn more about Helen Hayes and Whoopi Goldberg.
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by Amy Land | Jan 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
A series of exhibits on inventors and discoverers was recently put together for Google Arts and Culture. These exhibits featured women inventors and discoverers in medicine, science, engineering, health and beauty, and the household. In this month’s ENewsletter we feature two of the women who were included in the household inventors and discoverers exhibit: Sarah Goode and Josephine Cochran. Let’s learn about these two innovative women.
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by Amy Land | Dec 1, 2017 | In The News, Newsletters, Uncategorized
Tracy K. Smith, the new poet laureate of the U.S., assumed her one-year term of office in September 2017. She stands on the shoulders of other women who have filled that office and the predecessor office. These women include Gwendolyn Brooks who served as Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 1985-1986 and Rita Dove who served as Poet Laureate from 1993-1995 and later also served as a Special Bicentennial Consultant. Let’s learn more about Gwendolyn Brooks and Rita Dove.
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