WOMEN AND ADVERSITY:
MARÍA CORINA MACHADO PARISCA
VENEZUELAN POLITICAL ACTIVIST
AWARDED NOBEL PEACE PRIZE 2025
María Corina Machado Parisca has demonstrated the determination, tenacity and perseverance to make democracy Venezuela’s form of government. She began protesting against Hugo Chávez’s government in 2004 and co-founded Sumate, a voter rights organization that promoted a referendum to recall Chávez. She organized protests in 2014 after Nicolás Maduro became presiden ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY
ELINOR “LIN” AWAN OSTROM
2009
FIRST WOMAN TO WIN A NOBEL PRIZE IN ECONOMIC SCIENCES
Elinor “Lin” Awan Ostrom was of the era when wo ...
WOMEN AND ADVERSITY
ADA MONZÓN
METEOROLOGIST, PUERTO RICO
NATIONAL HISPANIC HERITAGE MONTH
Until the 1970s, men dominated news broadcasting, including weather, but when the Equal Rights Amend ...
