She was not only the first woman to run for U.S. President, she and her sister were the first female stockbrokers on Wall Street and she was the first woman to address a congressional committee. […]
In 1967, Kathrine Switzer became the first women to enter and run the Boston Marathon. For several years, another woman, Roberta Gibb, ran in the race, but did not dare register, not that she could. Women were not allowed to run in any marathons until 1972. […]
Brownie Wise was the marketing genius who created the in-home sales technique for Tupperware, giving more power to women. As head of sales, she grew the company to 100 million in revenue by 1958, becoming the first woman ever to grace their cover of Businessweek. Inventor Earl Tupper “grew annoyed when the press implied that his plastic products owed their success entirely to Brownie Wise’s marketing know-how.” […]
“Investigations by the War Department and Edith Rogers uncovered nothing; and the incidence of disorderly and criminal conduct among the WAACs was a tiny fraction of that among the male military population, venereal disease was almost non-existent, and the pregnancy rate was far below civilian women. […]
Iran isn’t know for its compassion for women. These days, the public face of cruelty to women is Sakine Mohammadi Ashtiani, a woman who was accused of having an illicit relationship with two men while […]
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Take a good look at Marcia Powell’s face; look at her eyes. She never knew her mother or father and at the age of 14 ran away from her adoptive home and spent the next […]
You spend your entire life scraping and scratching for every opportunity, a difficult task after your father suddenly dies when you are just nine years old and your mother is tasked with being the sole […]
My daughter’s sixth grade class participates in an annual tradition in her school called “The Wax Museum.” The children choose a person/character they would like to represent, and then dress up during a special day […]
Is there a correlation between human rights abuses and women succeeding in the workplace? One would think not, but consider the recent Newsweek article, The Women Who Want to Run the World. What do we […]
“Operating Room Fistfight Leads to Botched Delivery,” – When I first read this AP headline I thought for sure the woman in labor had to be involved. Delivering a child is definitely not for the […]
I’m great at riddles. Let’s see, “What’s the difference between selling out your party’s values and the oldest profession?” Hmmm…this tricky tweet was posted on Joe Miller’s Twitter page (Senate hopeful from Alaska) and then […]
Talk about a bad penny, just when you think Levi Johnston, the father of Sarah Palin’s grandson, was out of the picture (all except for that reality show with him running for Mayor of Wasilla), […]
Talk about dragging your feet, TODAY is the 90th anniversary (August 26, 1920) of the certification of the 19th Amendment allowing women their right to vote. But some men just refused to give in. Mississippi […]
Poor Miss Philippines didn’t practice this question before hand: “What is one big mistake you made in your life,”You know what, sir, in my 22 years of existence, I can say there is nothing major, […]
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