by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
Today, women can choose to train for any career in which they are interested. This was not always the case, as many of us know. Gender discrimination in most fields was real and in countless cases, officially sanctioned. Engineering is one of those fields that is still male-dominated, with women representing significantly less than half of the practitioners in the field. In fact, the percentage of women receiving B.S. degrees in the sciences didn’t even reach one percent until 1972. In this month’s enewsletter, we profile two pioneering women engineers: Edith Clarke and Mabel MacFerran Rockwell.
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by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2013 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
Women have been involved in using the Earth’s resources in an environmentally friendly manner for thousands of
years. This month, we profile four women whose passion was to live and work in harmony with our environment.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
Two women who are being inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in October 2013 are profiled – Nancy Pelosi and Emma Willard.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2013 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
It is only recently that physical fitness has become a part of many women’s daily regimen. In face, for many years , it was erroneously believed that active physical labor would harm a woman’s reproductive system! One wonders how the male physicians (and they were only men) came up with that?
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 4, 2013 | In The News, Publications, Radio, Television
Nancy Ulrich meets with professional engineer and author Jill Tietjen. Topics include Jill’s work in the engineering field and her book, co-authored by Charlotte S. Waisman, Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America.
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
On March 7, 2013, the National Women’s Hall of Fame (www.greatwomen.org) announced its 2013 inductees. Five of the women to be inducted October 12, 2013 are profiled in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. For our April enewsletter, we profile two of these women – racing jockey Julie Krone and feminist writer Kate Millett.
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