by Jill Tietjen | Dec 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
Native American women have left an important legacy of being strong leaders. When writing our book, we strived to find evidence of the early Native American women, to tell their stories. Sadly, many of their names have been lost to history; much of early Native American culture was an oral tradition. In this edition of our newsletter, we are proud to profile Nancy Ward, Sarah Winnemucca, Annie Dodge Wauneka, and Wilma Mankiller. These leaders literally fought in battle, fought for the rights of their people, and worked to make lives better for all.
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by Jill Tietjen | Nov 1, 2011 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
A study done by the Harvard School of Public Health and published in the New England Journal of Medicine found 
that being overweight and obese was the single most important risk factor that predicated who would develop type 2 diabetes. In this column, we profile Ellen Swallow Richards, an early advocate of a healthy lifestyle for women, Jenny Craig, who co-founded the weight loss and nutritional food company that bears her name, and Bernadine Healy, a cardiologist and the first woman to lead the National Institutes of Health.
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by Jill Tietjen | Nov 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
During the month of November comes that veritable feast – a time to celebrate our blessings with family and friends. In this month’s newsletter, we highlight two women from our bestselling book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America who made it possible for us to be confident about the storage conditions for the poultry that we eat and for making recipes that we can reproduce many times.
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by Jill Tietjen | Oct 1, 2011 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
Women diagnosed with breast cancer today have many options for treatment and the ability to have a female doctor 
to handle her care. In this month’s column, we feature pioneering women doctors and women who followed in the footsteps of those pioneers.
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by Jill Tietjen | Oct 1, 2011 | In The News, Newsletters
On October 1, 2011, the National Women’s Hall of Fame inducted eleven women in the Hall at its home in downtown Seneca Falls, New York – the “Birthplace of Women’s Rights”. Each year the Hall inducts both historical women and present day women who are role models who have made, or continue to make a difference in all of our lives.
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by Jill Tietjen | Sep 1, 2011 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
As we noted in last month’s column on menopause, many women become outstanding in their field during 
this special time in their lives. In this column, we highlight four Nobel Laureates in the sciences.
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