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Author: Barbara Kramer
Publisher: Enslow Publishing
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 9780766013773
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles the first women to reach ten pinnacles: winner of the Nobel Peace Prize and the Nobel Prize in Literature, U.S. Supreme Court justice, Surgeon General, Secretary of Labor, U.S. congresswoman, aviator, self-made millionaire, tennis champion, and newswoman.
Author: Jill Norgren
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2020-11-03
Total Pages: 301
ISBN-13: 1479805998
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe captivating story of how a diverse group of women, including Janet Reno and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, broke the glass ceiling and changed the modern legal profession In Stories from Trailblazing Women Lawyers, award-winning legal historian Jill Norgren curates the oral histories of one hundred extraordinary American women lawyers who changed the profession of law. Many of these stories are being told for the first time. As adults these women were on the front lines fighting for access to law schools and good legal careers. They challenged established rules and broke the law’s glass ceiling.Norgren uses these interviews to describe the profound changes that began in the late 1960s, interweaving social and legal history with the women’s individual experiences. In 1950, when many of the subjects of this book were children, the terms of engagement were clear: only a few women would be admitted each year to American law schools and after graduation their professional opportunities would never equal those open to similarly qualified men. Harvard Law School did not even begin to admit women until 1950. At many law schools, well into the 1970s, men told female students that they were taking a place that might be better used by a male student who would have a career, not babies. In 2005 the American Bar Association’s Commission on Women in the Profession initiated a national oral history project named the Women Trailblazers in the Law initiative: One hundred outstanding senior women lawyers were asked to give their personal and professional histories in interviews conducted by younger colleagues. The interviews, made available to the author, permit these women to be written into history in their words, words that evoke pain as well as celebration, humor, and somber reflection. These are women attorneys who, in courtrooms, classrooms, government agencies, and NGOs have rattled the world with insistent and successful demands to reshape their profession and their society. They are women who brought nothing short of a revolution to the profession of law.
Author: Christel Mouchard
Publisher: Flammarion-Pere Castor
Published: 2007-10-16
Total Pages: 248
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The author brings to life the stories of the greatest women adventurers in history. Crossing five continents, these indomitable women faced unimaginable dangers, from deserts and jungles to mountains and icebergs, often armed with little in the way of specialist equipment other than an umbrella and a "good, thick skirt". Spanning a century, this book mixes triumph and tragedy as it follows these heroines' extraordinary adventures. Archival photographs and extracts from diaries, journals, letters, and other writings thrillingly bring to life the unquenchable spirit of adventure of these courageous women."--Global Books in Print.
Author: Brandon Marie Miller
Publisher: Chicago Review Press
Published: 2013-02-01
Total Pages: 253
ISBN-13: 161374000X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAn Notable Social Studies Trade Book for Young People Using journal entries, letters home, and song lyrics, the women of the West speak for themselves in these tales of courage, enduring spirit, and adventure. Women such as Amelia Stewart Knight traveling on the Oregon Trail, homesteader Miriam Colt, entrepreneur Clara Brown, army wife Frances Grummond, actress Adah Isaacs Menken, naturalist Martha Maxwell, missionary Narcissa Whitman, and political activist Mary Lease are introduced to readers through their harrowing stories of journeying across the plains and mountains to unknown land. Recounting the impact pioneers had on those who were already living in the region as well as how they adapted to their new lives and the rugged, often dangerous landscape, this exploration also offers resources for further study and reveals how these influential women tamed the Wild West.
Author: Quotabelle
Publisher: Running Press Adult
Published: 2020-07-28
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780762471515
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDiscover empowering quotes and stories from American women past and present in Bravely, a beautiful new collection from the team behind Quotabelle. From the authors of Beautifully Said and Grit & Grace comes Bravely, an inspiring collection of quotes and true stories from America's trailblazing women. Full of wisdom that's both timeless and timely, Bravely introduces readers to unforgettable legends, little-known groundbreakers, and today's changemakers who embody the promise and cherished ideals of our nation. Linked to iconic events, memorable milestones, much-loved landmarks, and female firsts, the muses highlighted in this captivating gift book embolden us to help shape a brave, bright future. Designed to celebrate and empower female historymakers, this unique project highlights a variety of women hand-selected by Quotabelle, a start-up that seeks to elevate women's voices through the power of words.
Author: Kay Woodward
Publisher:
Published: 2018
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781338216400
DOWNLOAD EBOOKProfiles twenty-five female trailblazers who overcame huge obstacles, including Catherine the Great, Zaha Hadid, and Valentina Tereshkova.
Author: Judy Davis
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2016-12-08
Total Pages: 255
ISBN-13: 1317421671
DOWNLOAD EBOOKMuch has been written about the men and women who shaped the field of advertising, some of whom became legends in the industry. However, the contributions of African-American women to the advertising business have largely been omitted from these accounts. Yet, evidence reveals some trailblazing African-American women who launched their careers during the 1960s Mad Men era, and went on to achieve prominent careers. This unique book chronicles the nature and significance of these women’s accomplishments, examines the opportunities and challenges they experienced and explores how they coped with the extensive inequities common in the advertising profession. Using a biographical narrative approach, this book examines the careers of these important African-American women who not only achieved managerial positions in major mainstream advertising agencies but also established successful agencies bearing their own names. Based on their words and memories, this study reveals experiences which are intriguing, triumphant, bittersweet and sometimes tragic. These women’s stories comprise a vital part of the historical narrative on women and African-Americans in advertising and will be instructive not only to scholars of advertising and marketing history but to future generations of advertising professionals.
Author: Tami Lewis Brown
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 2010-10-12
Total Pages: 52
ISBN-13: 0374371156
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBrown and Roca tell the thrilling true story of legendary aviatrix Elinor Smith, who in 1928 pulled off a risky aeronautic feat skillfully and with style. Full color.
Author: Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal
Publisher:
Published: 2021
Total Pages: 464
ISBN-13: 9781623499938
DOWNLOAD EBOOKFrom the creation of the Manned Spacecraft Center to the launching of the International Space Station and beyond, Making Space for Women explores how careers for women at Johnson Space Center have changed over the past fifty years as the workforce became more diverse and fields once closed to women--the astronaut corps and flight control--began to open. Jennifer M. Ross-Nazzal has selected twenty-one interviews conducted for the NASA Oral History Projects, including those with astronauts, mathematicians, engineers, secretaries, scientists, trainers, managers, and more. The women featured not only discuss leadership, teamwork, and the experiences of being "the first," but reveal how the role of the working woman in a predominantly white, male, technical agency has evolved. The narratives highlight the societal and cultural changes these women witnessed and the lessons they learned as they pursued different career paths. Among those included are Joan E. Higginbotham, mission specialist aboard the Space Shuttle Discovery; Natalie V. Saiz, first female director of the Human Resource Office; Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space; Estella Hernández Gillette, the deputy director of the center's External Relations Office; and Carolyn Huntoon, the first woman director of the Johnson Space Center. Making Space for Women offers a unique view of the history of human spaceflight while also providing a broader understanding of changes in American culture, society, industry, and life for women in the space program. The women featured in this book demonstrate that there are no boundaries or limits to a career at NASA for those who choose to seize the opportunity.
Author: Wendy Moore
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: 2020-04-28
Total Pages: 368
ISBN-13: 1541672739
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe "absorbing and powerful" (Wall Street Journal) story of two pioneering suffragette doctors who shattered social expectations and transformed modern medicine during World War I. A month after war broke out in 1914, doctors Flora Murray and Louisa Garrett Anderson set out for Paris, where they opened a hospital in a luxury hotel and treated hundreds of casualties plucked from France's battlefields. Although, prior to the war and the Spanish flu, female doctors were restricted to treating women and children, Flora and Louisa's work was so successful that the British Army asked them to set up a hospital in the heart of London. Nicknamed the Suffragettes' Hospital, Endell Street soon became known for its lifesaving treatments. In No Man's Land, Wendy Moore illuminates this turbulent moment of global war and pandemic when women were, for the first time, allowed to operate on men. Their fortitude and brilliance serve as powerful reminders of what women can achieve against all odds.
