Archive for July, 2024
Women and Adversity: Mary Anderson, Inventor of the Windshield Wiper
July 11, 2024Women and Adversity: Mary Anderson Inventor -Windshield Wiper Here is another story about a woman who was deprived of recognition for her invention because no company believed it was relevant. ...
Women and Adversity: Jane Addams, Lesbian Co-founder of Hull House in Chicago
June 13, 2024Women and Adversity: Jane Addams, Lesbian Co-founder of Hull House To recognize June as Pride Month, I’m featuring famous women who were lesbians. I wrote a post about Jane Addams on this ...
Women and Adversity: Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
October 26, 2023Subscribe to my blog via email at the bottom of www.jamathews.com/blog Women and Adversity: Narges Mohammadi 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner The suppression of women in Iran goes beyond what any ...
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: 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: Sarah Jane S. T. Garnet Cofounder of Equal Suffrage League of Brooklyn
November 25, 2021Sarah Jane Smith Thompson Garnet argued that it was undemocratic to deny women the vote because they “had the same human intellectual and spiritual capabilities as men.” Garnet had a di ...
Women and Adversity: Belva Ann Lockwood, First Woman to Argue Before the Supreme Court
October 28, 2021Belva Ann Lockwood’s flamboyant manner and special ability of self-promotion helped people of her era become more aware that women had talents equal to those of men. When she was denied the ri ...
Women and Adversity: Tye Leung Schulze, First Chinese American to Vote
August 26, 2021Tye Leung was born August 24, 1887 in San Francisco’s Chinatown, the youngest of eight children of Chinese immigrants. Her parents had arranged a marriage between Tye’s sister and an older ...
Women and Adversity: Isabella Beecher Hooker
August 12, 2021Isabella Beecher was considered frivolous by her family, and one reason was that she spent a lot of time checking her appearance. She wasn’t interested in marriage, but John Hooker, a lawyer ...
Women and Adversity: Clara Barton Founder of the American Red Cross Born on Christmas Day 1821
December 24, 2020Clarissa “Clara” Barton was born on December 25, 1821, 199 years ago in Oxford, Massachusetts, the youngest of six children. She was a shy girl, and on the recommendation of phrenologist ...