The World Beyond BetterMost > Women Today
A look at the American woman
delalluvia:
Education is up, but salary gaps remain because men are still not picking up the slack in childcare and spend more time on leisure leaving the working woman to do the lion's share of domestic work.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/yblog_thelookout/20110301/us_yblog_thelookout/5-graphs-about-american-women
Jeff Wrangler:
I understand this is Women's History Month. If we have a thread for this, I can't seem to locate it, so I'll post a link about a very particular American woman here:
Sarah Josepha Hale (1788-1879)
Sarah Josepha Hale was editor of the tremendously influential magazine Godey's Ladies' Book for 40 years. After advocating through several administrations, she finally convinced Abraham Lincoln to create a National Thanksgiving Day (right in the middle of the Civil War).
She also wrote "Mary Had a Little Lamb," which was first thing Thomas Edison recorded in his brand-new invention the phonograph.
I mention Sarah Josepha Hale now because yesterday I noticed a state historical market that indicated that she lived about four blocks from where I live now. (She must have moved, as the location of her death is given about two blocks from my place.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sarah_Josepha_Hale
Front-Ranger:
This is wonderful, friend! I hope to hear more about these amazing women from you, and thank you!! :-*
CellarDweller:
Good idea, Jeff!
Jeff Wrangler:
Here's another remarkable American woman of the 19th century, Julia Ward Howe.
She's probably best known now for having written "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," but she was also an abolitionist. a social reformer, and a women's suffragist.
Her husband, Samuel Gridley Howe, founded the Perkins School for the Blind, whose most famous alumna was another remarkable woman, Anne Sullivan, the teacher of Helen Keller (who was pretty remarkable herself).
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julia_Ward_Howe
Navigation
[0] Message Index
[#] Next page
Go to full version