womens history

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• 4/5/2020
  

  What About the Waitresses?

  by Alison Owings

  I wonder if – when – this viral horror is over, customers will have a new appreciation for the women, and men, who serve.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/25/2020
  

  A Troublemaker With a Gavel

  by Karen Tumulty

  Perhaps, before too long, the troublemaker with a gavel will finally get her wish—to no longer hear herself introduced as the most powerful woman in American history.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  3/19/2020
  

  How Phyllis Schlafly Derailed the Equal Rights Amendment

  Proponents hadn’t counted on a conservative grassroots movement led by activist and lawyer Phyllis Schlafly.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  3/22/2020
  

  The History of Female Brain Studies Reveal a Lot

  by Kimberly Hamlin

  The historical quest to document sex differences in brains was founded on the premise that women’s brains are inherently inferior to men’s.

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• 3/22/2020
  

  The Three Daring Women Who Traversed the Himalayas

  by Kayte Nunn

  Antonia Deacock, Anne Davies, Eve Sims set off overland from England to Tibet in 1958, a 16,000 mile journey to aim climb one of the Himalayas’ unexplored high peaks. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/19/2020
  

  The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism

  by Helen Lewis

  When people note that Shakespeare and Newton did some of their best work while England was ravaged by the plague, there is an obvious response: Neither of them had child-care responsibilities.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/12/2020
  

  We Can’t Forget Women as We Tell The Story of COVID-19

  by Jennifer Brier

  Women who have been medical (and political) subjects of HIV/AIDS also have much to teach us during our current pandemic.

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• 3/15/2020
  

  Golda Meir and Women's Wartime Leadership

  by Jonathan W. Jordan and Emily Anne Jordan

  Are women seeking the presidency held back by Americans' mistrust of female military leadership? The example of Golda Meir suggests they shouldn't be.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/11/2020
  

  U.S. Soccer Apologizes For Saying Male Players Have 'More Responsibility' Than Women

  The soccer federation made the claims in hopes of convincing a federal court in California to dismiss a discrimination lawsuit filed by members of the 2019 World Cup championship team.

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  3/8/2020
  

  My Abortion Before Roe v. Wade

  by Elizabeth Stone

  Roe v. Wade is in peril, flinging me back to a terrifying time in my own life, one I never expected women today would have to face.

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• SOURCE: Senator Dianne Feinstein
  3/11/2020
  

  Feinstein, Collins Urge Vote on Legislation to Establish Smithsonian Women's History Museum

  Senators Feinstein and Susan Collins (R, ME) renewed a bipartisan call for the Senate to vote onSmithsonian American Women’s History Museum Act.

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• SOURCE: Jewish Exponent
  3/9/2020
  

  Women’s History Month Spotlight: Maimie Pinzer

  According to historian Melissa R. Klapper, Pinzer’s story has been of great interest to scholars of gender and working-class women because her letters are among the only firsthand accounts of prostitution during the early 20th century. “She was also quite self-aware about the role that gender norms and limitations on women, especially economic, had played in her life.”

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• SOURCE: Time
  3/6/2020
  

  9 Women from American History You Should Know, According to Historians

  by Olivia B. Waxman

  To shed light on other lesser-known female history-makers, we asked historians to name a woman from the American past whose story should be better known. Here are their picks.

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• 3/6/2020
  

  America’s First Literary Voice

  by William Lambers

  The thoughts and feelings of Anne Bradstreet, written hundreds of years ago, live on with us today. 

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/24/20
  

  On the Trail of America’s First Women to Vote

  From 1776 to 1807, women in New Jersey had equal voting rights. Newly surfaced documents illuminate how that happened — and the origins of the messy, imperfect democracy we have today.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/24/20
  

  Katherine Johnson, ‘hidden figure’ at NASA during 1960s space race, dies at 101

  Mrs. Johnson, who died Feb. 24 at 101, went on to develop equations that helped the NACA and its successor, NASA, send astronauts into orbit and, later, to the moon.

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• SOURCE: Miami Herald
  2/19/20
  

  Harriet Tubman Highway approved in Miami-Dade, replacing ‘Dixie’ over Civil War legacy

  Miami-Dade commissioners unanimously approved renaming the county’s “Dixie” highways after Harriet Tubman.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/14/20
  

  Utah women had the right to vote long before others — and then had it taken away

  by Katherine Kitterman

  As we remember the 19th Amendment, we shouldn’t forget what came before it.

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• 2/16/20
  

  Happy 200th Birthday to Susan B. Anthony (1820-1906)

  by Sandra Weber

  In commemorating Anthony’s birthday, women have examined the past, celebrated their progress, and looked to the future.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/12/20
  

  The House just passed a bill to create a women’s history museum. Only one congresswoman voted against it.

  The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Tuesday to approve the creation of a national women’s history museum as part of the Smithsonian Institution’s network of museums in Washington.