by Jill Tietjen | Nov 1, 2010 | In The News, Newsletters
Many women have made contributions to changing America by their participation in the fields of writing and journalism. We highlight a diarist, a playwright, a non-fiction author and an editor of a monthly magazine.
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by Jill Tietjen | Oct 1, 2010 | In The News, Newsletters
This month’s newsletter features two women who are important to the continuing story of women changing America: Stephanie Kwolek and Gertrude Elion.
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by Jill Tietjen | Sep 1, 2010 | In The News, Newsletters
Although the typical image of an inventor in the U.S. is a man, women have been creating and inventing right along side of them, for thousands of years. Early women innovators are profiled.
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by Jill Tietjen | Aug 1, 2010 | In The News, Newsletters
To celebrate the 90th Anniversary of Women’s Right to Vote, Her Story issues an invitation for a special tea and luncheon.
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by Jill Tietjen | Apr 21, 2008 | In The News, Publications
You’ve come a long way, baby, as this illustrated timeline highlighting the achievements of women in America demonstrates. The book, which grew out of a traveling exhibit of the same name, consists of brief descriptions of more than 900 women, both famous and forgotten, who have influenced the nation, mostly through politics, academe, business, technology, or the arts. The most stirring entries involve those who dared to defy the gender norms of their day, like the women who took up arms in the Revolutionary War, spoke out against slavery, and marched for suffrage. A number of entries provide interesting trivia, including the fact that women invented paper grocery bags (Margaret Knight, 1870) and Kevlar (Stephanie Kwolek, 1965). Many describe females who were firsts in their fields, and some of these are more momentous than others — I appreciated reading that Edith Wharton was the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize in fiction, for The Age of Innocence, but can’t say I felt edified upon learning that Margaret Petherbridge Farrar was the first woman to create a crossword puzzle book. While this unabashedly celebratory book is feminism at its softest and fuzziest, it’s enjoyable to flip through and would make a fine gift, certainly sparking more interesting conversation than another bouquet of flowers. —Barbara Spindel
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