Women’s History Month: March 4, 2019
Kathrine Switzer is a female runner who was famously chased and pushed during the Boston Marathon in 1967. Kathrine worked to introduce long distance running events into the Olympics for women and has traveled the globe to run and report on running. Kathrine is now an author and the founder of 261 fearless.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 3, 2019
La Malinche was a Nahu woman from the Mexican Gulf Coast. She played a key roll in the Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire. She interpreted for and advised conquistador Hernan Cortes. She has been viewed in multiple different positive and negative lights throughout Mexican History and was specifically potent in pop culture after the Mexican Revolution.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 2, 2019
Billie Holiday was a jazz and swing singer with a career lasting around 30 years. Her music was met with mixed reactions due to the honesty of the lyrics. Strange Fruit, for example focused on the unjust lynchings of African Americans in the south. Billie won four Grammy Awards, all posthumously.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 1, 2019
Coco Chanel was a fashion designer and business woman who popularized sporty, casual, lose fitting clothing for women. This replaced the corseted silhouette that had been popular during the Victorian Era. Coco has been criticized for staying in France and sympathizing with the Nazis during World War II. She passed away in 1971. Her perfume Chanel #5 is still one of the most famous in the world.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 31, 2018
To our future - may we build each other up to be brave and strong and smart and kind.
~Caroline & Eliza Greenwood
~Allie Bayne-Greenwood
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 30, 2018
Jane Goodall is a primatologist and anthropologist. She is considered the foremost expert on chimpanzees in the world. Jane is best known for her 60 year study of social and family chimpanzees in the wild. She first went to Tanzania in 1960 and is now an activist for wildlife preservation.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 29, 2018
Oprah Winfrey is a talk show host, producer, actress, author, and philanthropist. She was the richest black woman if the 20th century and North America’s first black multi-billionaire. Oprah grew up in poverty and hardship with perseverance to become one of the most well known and well-loved celebrities in the world.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 28, 2018
Madam CJ Walker was an entrepreneur, philanthropist, and political activist. She was the first female self-made millionaire. She gained her fortune by developing and marketing cosmetics and hair care products for black women. At the time of her death, in 1919, she was the wealthiest black businesswoman in the United States.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 27, 2018
Women’s suffrage in the United States was a decades-long fight to win the right to vote. It took nearly 100 years worth of activism to get the 19th Amendment ratified. This still only allowed white women the right to vote. Suffrage for women of all races and socioeconomic statuses is still an issue in the United States and in the world as a whole.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 26, 2018
Elizabeth Blackwell was the first woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. She played an important role in the social reform of acceptance of woman in the field of medicine. She authored the first scientific paper published by a female student. It was seen as ‘feminine’, holding too much empathy for human suffering.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 25, 2018
Elisa Zamfirescu was a Romanian engineer who became the first woman to obtain a degree in engineering. During World War I she managed a hospital in Romania. After the war she led several geology laboratories and taught chemistry and physics. Elisa passed away in 1973.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 24, 2018
Mae Jemison is an engineer, physician, and former NASA astronaut. She became the first black woman to travel to outer space in 1993 when she served as a mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Endeavor.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 23, 2018
JK Rowling is the author of the famous Harry Potter series first published in 1997. She is credited with reinvigorating the genre of young adult fiction and will go down in history as the author of one of the most well loved book series of all time. Rowling has recently come under harsh criticism for remarks about transgender people.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 22, 2018
Florence Nightingale was a social reformer who the procedures for modern nursing. She came to prominence during the Crimean War, where she cared for wounded soldiers in a hospital in Constantinople.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 21, 2018
Marie Stopes was a paleobotanist and campaigner for women’s rights. She became well-known for her views on birth control and sex, speaking publicly about each with explicit and practical advice. Stopes is a controversial figure because of her dedication to the concept of eugenics. Marie passed away in October of 1958.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 20, 2018
Indira Gandhi was the first, and only, female Prime Minister of India. Indira had a very controversial time in office. She was loved by some, but also hated for her treatment of the Sikh people of India as well as her treatment of the ‘Untouchable’ people living in the slums of India. Indira was assassinated on October 31, 1984.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 19, 2018
Ruby Bridges was the first African American child to attend the desegregated William Frantz Elementary School in Louisiana. She was walked to school by federal marshals, to protect her from the racist crowds that showed up each day to yell, spit, and throw things at her. Today Ruby lives in New Orleans with her husband and their four sons.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 18, 2018
Saint Teresa of Calcutta is an Albanian, Indian charity worker who established the ‘Missionaries of Charity’ that is now active in 133 countries. Her goal in life was to provide care for the poorest of the poor and give an honorable and comfortable death to those who were suffering from terminal illnesses. She became a Saint of the Catholic Church in 2017.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 17, 2018
Malala Yousafzai is a political activist for female rights to education. She was shot in the head by the Taliban on her way to school in October of 2015 when she was 15 years old. Malala survived and has gone on to win the Nobel Peace Prize, graduate from college, and author a book on her life as an activist.
Read MoreWomen’s History Month: March 16, 2018
Rosie the Riveter was a cultural propaganda icon from World War II representing the millions of women who joined the work force to replace male workers fighting in the military. World War II was not the first time women had joined the workforce, but she represents a big step forward in the acceptance of a co-gendered workforce.
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