Remember that time when a Harvard professor said that college made women infertile? We do.
Today’s the anniversary of the end of WWII in Europe. Did you know that women were often (uncredited) spies and couriers in WWII? Read about this woman (she’s incredible):
Anne Sofie Østvedt quickly rose through the ranks to become the deputy commander of the underground intelligence-gathering resistance group XU. According to the top-secret document in her AAUW file, “As from the summer of 1943, she functioned as the proxy of the chief and in that capacity had contacts with the leading underground organizations. During the stays abroad and inspection trips of her chief, she was the acting leader of the whole system, comprising that whole of south Norway (about 3,000 men).
Read more here.
Though they remained POWs under horrific conditions for three years and suffered their own injuries and illnesses, they continued to care for soldiers in the camp until they were freed in February 1945.
It’s Nurses Week! And in case you didn’t know that nurses are awesome, well, they are.
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A welder at a boat-and-sub-building yard adjusts her goggles before resuming work, October, 1943. By 1945, women comprised well over a third of the civilian labor force (in 1940, it was closer to a quarter) and millions of those jobs were filled in factories: building bombers, manufacturing munitions, welding, drilling and riveting for the war effort. (source)
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Yesterday Senator Claire McCaskill announced her support for same sex marriage on Tumblr, just in time for the Supreme Court hearings on both Proposition 8 and DOMA are happening this week.
Today is the 102nd anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire that killed 146 workers, mostly women and girls. The fire marked a pivotal shift in labor safety and the rights of working women and served as a direct catalyst to the Bread and Roses strike.
Happy Women’s History Month! This week we’re celebrating incredible women in Hollywood.
Happy 41st birthday to the federal legalization of contraception for unmarried people!
March 22 marks the 41st anniversary of Eisenstadt v. Baird, the Supreme Court decision that established the right of single individuals to possess contraception. That’s right: As recently as 1972, you could go to jail for giving contraception to an unmarried person. And William Baird did. Eight times. In five different states.
This is awesome. Happy Saturday.
Happy Women’s History Month! This week we’re celebrating inspiring women in Hollywood history
This interactive map timeline shows when women won the right to vote and when the first woman was elected in each country.
The sad part is that even by 2011, the map isn’t completely filled in.
(via The Guardian)
Nicknamed the “grand old lady of software” and known as “amazing Grace” by her subordinates, Hopper had a distinguished career in higher education, private industry, and the U.S. Navy and made significant efforts in educating younger generations about advanced information systems technology.
Happy Birthday, Albert Einstein!
Did you know that Einstein, when he wasn’t formulating the theory of relativity, did a ton of work to help get female scientists out of Germany during WWII?
If you love Girl Scout cookies, you love first lady Lou Hoover. Find out why…
