by Amy Land | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
The recent movies RBG and On the Basis of Sex demonstrate some of the hurdles U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome. In this month’s ENewsletter, we profile two other legal pioneers: Florence Allen and Constance Baker Motley.
A woman of many firsts, Florence Allen did her undergraduate work (Phi Beta Kappa) at Case Western University. Since the law school at Case Western did not admit women, she began her law education at the University of Chicago in 1909, the only woman in a class of 100 students. Having to pay for her education, she moved to New York City, worked with immigrants and as a lecturer before enrolling at the New York University Law School. Although second in her class when she graduated in 1913, she did not receive any job offers from the New York legal firms (the same situation faced decades later by RBG) so she moved back to Cleveland, Ohio.
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by Amy Land | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
Women artists, like women in every endeavor, have been overlooked throughout history. In this month’s ENewsletter we feature two women whose contributions to the arts and culture are enduring: Georgia O’Keeffe and Wilhemina Holladay, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
The “Mother of American modernism” artist Georgia O’Keeffe is famously remembered for her paintings of large flowers and depictions of landscapes – particularly those of New Mexico and New York City. O’Keeffe felt constrained during her initial years of art education but during her summer art studies between her years of teaching, she began to develop her own personal style. By 1915, that style was emerging and her first solo commercial exhibition was held in New York City in 1917. In 1929, she began spending part of her year in the Southwest and painting evocations of that area. After her husband died, she lived permanently in New Mexico.
by Amy Land | Nov 8, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
November ENewsletter
Nobel Laureates
Very exciting news came in October 2018 – women were going to share the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics! Donna Strickland, one of the trio to be awarded the
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics works at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her prize is being
awarded for discovering how to amplify the intensity of laser light in ever-briefer pulses. This work
paved the way for precision eye surgery and cancer therapy, among other advances. Dr.
Strickland becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics since American Maria
Goeppert-Mayer in 1963. Fran Arnold will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on
the directed evolution of enzymes.
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by Amy Land | Sep 1, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
Ella Brennan, a well-known, well respected New Orleans restaurant owner, nurtured celebrity
chefs, but didn’t believe it appropriate to worship them, “A restaurant is not a church, where you
have to be quiet and kneel,” she said. Brennan, whose family owned more than a dozen different
restaurants, died earlier this year. Thinking of her reminded us to share the story of two other
remarkable women in the food business: Romana Bañuelos and Ruth Fertel.
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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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