Elizabeth Sadoques Mason: One of the first Native American Registered Nurses in the United States
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Barbara McClintock: Breaking “Illogical Barriers,” American Woman Biologist (1902-1992)
Barbara McClintock once stated that she was “not a feminist” which would, in effect, disqualify...
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The Doctors Blackwell: How Two Pioneering Sisters Brought Medicine to Women – And Women to Medicine by Janice P. Nimura (2021)
On January 23, 1849, Elizabeth Blackwell was awarded a medical degree. She was the first woman in...
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Theodora Kroeber: Stringing Together the Bone Beads of History
There was so much I learned from anthropologist, author and ethnographer, Theodora Kroeber’s Ishi...
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#NastyWomenWeavers: Elizabeth Wayland Barber’s Women’s Work: The First 20,000 years
Elizabeth Wayland Barber begins her book Women’s Work: The First 20,000 Years with a description...
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Marija Gimbutas: Unearthing the Goddess, Rocking My World, Lithuanian-American Woman Writer and Archaeologist(1921-1994)
2021 is the 100 year anniversary of Lithuanian archaeologist, scholar and archaeomythologist...
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Katalin Karikó: The biochemist who persisted!
Update: Since discovering scientist Katalin Karikó and the role she’s played in the...
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Ada Lovelace: Math, Vision, and Ambition in a Woman Meets Certain Death in Victorian England – Women Writing Code
When I think of Ada Lovelace 1815-1852, widely recognized as the first computer programmer, I...
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Marie Curie: The Quest to Know, Polish/French Woman Writer and Scientist (1867-1934)
“Be less curious about people and more curious about ideas.” ~Marie Curie Marie Curie discovered...
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