Jeannette Rankin was the first woman elected to Congress. She served in the U.S. House from 1917 to 1919 and from 1941 to 1943.
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Women in History
Posted in Equity in the News, The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Work, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged politics, U.S. Congress, U.S. House of Representatives on March 31, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Women in History
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women and Work, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged asteroid, physical theory, physicist, pioneer on March 30, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Chien-Shiung Wu was a pioneering physicist who radically altered modern physical theory and changed the accepted view of the structure of the universe. She was the first woman to head the American Physical Society and the first living scientist to have an asteroid named after her.
Women in History
Posted in Sex Discrimination, Sexism, The AAUW Community, Women and Civil Rights, Women and Work, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged fission, lise meitner, Nobel Prize, nuclear, otto hahn on March 29, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
Lise Meitner was part of the team that discovered nuclear fission, an achievement for which her colleague Otto Hahn was awarded the Nobel Prize. Meitner is often mentioned as one of the most glaring examples of women’s scientific achievements being overlooked.
Remembering Geraldine Ferraro
Posted in The AAUW Community, Voter Education, Women and Civil Rights, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged Democratic, Elect Her, Ferraro, House of Representatives, Mondale, Vice-President of the United States on March 28, 2011, | 1 Comment »
Geraldine A. Ferraro, who broke political barriers as the first woman to run as a major-party nominee for vice president, died over the weekend at age 75. Ferraro, a three-term member of the U.S. House of Representatives when presidential hopeful Walter Mondale chose her as his running mate on the Democratic ticket in 1984, was [...]
Women in History
Posted in S T E M, The AAUW Community, Women & Economic Security, Women and Work, Women's History, Women's History Month, tagged astrophysics, NASA, scientific commiunity on March 23, 2011, | Leave a Comment »
France Córdova was the youngest person and first woman to hold the position of NASA chief scientist, serving as the primary scientific adviser to the NASA administrator and the principal liaison between NASA headquarters and the broader scientific community.
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