Women’s lack of basic civil rights deeply affect Mary Coffin Ware Dennett’s life. She was convicted because the sex side of life was judged obscene.
Category: Strong Women
The Second Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
Fifty-two years after Marie Curie, society believed women were unsuited for academic or scientific work. Maria Goeppert Mayer pursued her interests, anyway. And she became the second woman to win the Nobel Prize in physics. Early Life Friedrich Goppert, and his wife Maria, lived in Kattowitz (now Katowice, Poland). Their only child, Maria Goeppert Mayer,… Continue reading The Second Woman to Win the Nobel Prize in Physics
The Woman Men Wanted to Ignore
In the late nineteenth-century, few women had access to higher education, especially in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM). Born to a poor immigrant family, Hertha Marks Ayrton let nothing stop her. She was a suffragette, a physicist, a mathematician, and an inventor. She was the woman men wanted to ignore. Early Life On April… Continue reading The Woman Men Wanted to Ignore
Her Story is Missing from Our History Books
Ruth Margaret Muskrat Bronson, a Cherokee poet, educator and Indian rights activist, is a person who should be in all our history books. Her passion, creativity, and dedication to her people alone earned her a place in history. But her story is a missing from our history books. Muskrat Bronson acted when women were struggling to be… Continue reading Her Story is Missing from Our History Books
The Insanity of Inequality
In 1851, the state of Illinois opened its first hospital for the mentally ill. The state legislature passed a law to protect people from being committed against his or her will. The law required a public hearing before that person was committed. With one exception, a husband could have his wife committed without either a… Continue reading The Insanity of Inequality