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Women in Medicine: Little Known Crusaders Who Have Made a Difference
On March 4, 2014 I was invited to Barrett Honors College at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona, to help them celebrate Women’s History Month. I addressed an audience of engaged students and...
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Isabella Coleman: Rose Bowl Parade Float Designer and Innovator
Isabella Coleman (1892-1982) designed floats for the Tournament of Roses Parade. There were few other women designing floats at that time, and Coleman pioneered many of the more advanced techniques...
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Revolutionary War: The Women Who Should be Remembered
During the Revolutionary War, there were numerous women who heroically stood up for the Patriots’ cause, yet so often the stories we hear take on the aspect of myth. Betsy Ross’ story is a good...
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Fannie Farmer: Cookbook Author Who Instituted Exact Measuring
Fannie Farmer (1857-1915) became famous as an author of a highly popular cookbook that broke new ground by specifying exact measurements in its recipes. She also served as principal of a cooking school...
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Gertrude Käsebier: Enhanced Portrait Photography
Gertrude Käsebier was an American portrait photographer and one Kasebier, 1908, public domain of the few professional women in the photography business at the turn of the century. Because Käsebier...
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Rose Knox: Foremost Woman Industrialist of Her Day
Rose Knox (1857-1950) was active in the Knox Gelatin Company from the start of the business in 1891, and she became president and CEO in 1908 when her husband Charles died unexpectedly. When Rose Knox...
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Alice Huyler Ramsey, First Woman to Drive Across U.S.
In 1909 Alice Huyler Ramsey (1886-1983) became the first woman ever to drive from coast-to-coast. Horatio Nelson Jackson (and his dog, Bud), who had made a San Francisco-to-New York drive in 1903,...
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Amanda Theodosia Jones, Inventor and Owner of All-Woman Business
Amanda Theodosia Jones (1835-1914) was a multi-talented woman who was a prolific inventor and a frequently published writer. Her inventions were in two very different fields—food preservation/canning,...
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Mary Pickersgill: Maker of the Star-Spangled Banner
Mary Pickersgill (1776-1857) was a well-regarded flagmaker in Baltimore, Maryland. In 1813 she was approached by U.S. military representatives to make an oversized United States flag that would fly...
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Harriet Beecher Stowe, Anti-Slavery Author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin
Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) grew up in a family who cared deeply about social issues, including the abolition of slavery. Stowe chose to use the power of words to bring to light the injustice of...
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Septima Clark Founded Citizenship Schools
Septima Clark (1898-1987) was an educator and civil rights activist. She established Citizenship Schools that transformed the South by increasing the number of African Americans who could vote. Her...
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Bessie Blount Griffin, Physical Therapist and Inventor
Bessie Blount (1914-2009) was a physical therapist who found herself working with injured soldiers during World War II. She recognized their need and desire to do more on their own, and she invented an...
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Ophelia DeVore-Mitchell: Fashion Model, Entrepreneur, Publisher
Ophelia DeVore (1921-2014) began her modeling career in 1938 when she was only 16. This gave her an early understanding of how difficult it was for non-whites to be selected for fashion photography or...
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The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion
The 6888th Central Postal Directory Battalion was an all-female black military unit created in 1944. These women are among the unsung heroes of World War II. The work they accomplished—hand-processing...
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WWI: U.S. Recruits Women Operators
About six months after the U.S. entered World War I, the Signal Corps—the U.S. Communications unit of the Army—put out a call for women telephone operators. This was at the express request of General...
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Campbell Kids Creator Grace Drayton
The creator of the iconic Campbell Kids was illustrator Grace Drayton (1877-1936), a highly successful artist, illustrator, and cartoonist. The Kids first appeared in 1904 and have been used on and off...
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Barbara Jordan, Congresswoman and Trailblazer
Barbara Jordan (1936-96) was a dynamic and forceful African American from Texas who made great strides for American citizens. She exhibited a positive outlook, great intelligence, a good sense of...
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Isabella Greenway: Entrepreneur and Congresswoman
Isabella Greenway (1886-1953) was the first woman to represent Arizona in Congress (1933-1936) at a time when Arizona had only a single representative to the House of Representatives. A lifelong...
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“Liquid Paper” for Typists Invented by Secretary
The inventor of the correcting fluid Liquid Paper was a woman by the name of Bette Nesmith Graham (1924-1980). Her work as a secretary and her background in art were inspiration for her invention. She...
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Sybil Ludington, 16, Helped Patriots in Revolutionary War
Sybil Ludington is known for her 40-mile night ride through parts of New York and Connecticut to alert American Patriots that the British military had come ashore in Connecticut and were marching...
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