Archive for February, 2023
Women and Adversity: Katerina Sakellaropoulou President of Greece
February 9, 2023Women and Adversity: Katerina Sakellaropoulou President of Greece We in America don’t pay much attention to women politicians around the world. Even when a country elects “the first woman” ...
Women and Adversity Blog: 2023
January 12, 2023I began writing Women and Adversity in 2014 to promote women writers and praise their achievements. I believed their words would be inspirational for those aiming to get their stories and books ...
Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Tsai Ing-wen President of Taiwan
December 8, 2022Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Tsai Ing-wen, President of Taiwan Tsai Ing-wen (pronounced Sigh⸍ Ing-when⸍) was elected president of Taiwan in January 2016 and reelected ...
Women and Adversity: Victoire Tomegah Dogbé
October 13, 2022Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Victoire Tomegah Dogbé Prime Minister of Togo The more I read about women in power worldwide, I realize that many are appointed. After the appointment, ...
Women and Adversity: Dame Sandra Prunella Mason, President of Barbados
August 25, 2022Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Dame Sandra Prunella Mason President of Barbados I have been to Barbados and remember passing the stark white State House where the president of the ...
Women and Adversity: Matilda Joselyn Gage, Suffragist
August 11, 2022Women and Adversity: Matilda Joslyn Gage Suffragist I was a guest blogger on The Lazy Historian, a blog by historical fiction writer Jillianne Hamilton. (https://lazyhistorian.com). Jill is a his ...
Women and Adversity: Fiame Naomi Mata’afa
July 28, 2022Women and Adversity: 21st Century Women Fiamē Naomi Mata'afa Prime Minister of Samoa I don’t know anyone who’s been to Samoa, called the “Cradle of Polynesia.” It’s an islan ...
Women and Adversity: Eleanor Roosevelt First Lady, Author, Humanitarian
March 10, 2022I have featured Eleanor Roosevelt in the past, but for Women’s History Month I thought it appropriate to highlight her again as our most influential First Lady. An item in the winter 2022 ...
Women and Adversity: Gwendolyn Brooks, First Black to Win a Pulitzer Prize
February 24, 2022I met Gwendolyn Brooks in 1990 when I asked her to be a featured speaker in a writers’ conference I organized at Prairie State College in Chicago Heights, Illinois. She was one of the most g ...
Women and Adversity: Maya Angelou Author, Poet, Actress, Activist
February 10, 2022When I read that Maya Angelou had written seven autobiographies, I doubted she could maintain interest about her life through all those books. How wrong I was. I Know Why the Caged Bir ...