Keene’s Elizabeth Sadoques Mason: One of the first Native American Registered Nurses in the United States
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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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Temple Grandin: “I Can Picture It Perfectly”(American b. 1947)
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Marija Gimbutas: Unearthing the Goddess, Rocking My World, Lithuanian-American Woman Writer and Archaeologist(1921-1994)
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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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Carol Ruckdeschel: “Tireless defender of sea turtles” (American Woman Writer and Researcher b. 1941)
I happened to catch a January 13, 2021 For the Wild podcast titled Carol Ruckdeschel on Keeping...
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Matilda Joslyn Gage: In Her Name, American Woman Writer and Activist (1826-1898)
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The Book of Gutsy Women: Favorite Stories of Courage and Resilience by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Chelsea Clinton (2019)
This is remarkable: the stories of over 130 courageous women and their contributions in one book!...
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