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onoudn
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In 2009, the National Women's History Project honors women who have taken the lead in the environmental or "green" movement. We are featuring Rachel Carson, the founder of the contemporary environmental movement, as the iconic model of the theme. Rachel Carson's work provides an admirable model for comparison. The 2009 Honorees are scientists, engineers, business leaders, writers, filmmakers, conservationists, teachers, community organizers, religious or workplace leaders or others whose lives show exceptional vision and leadership to save our planet.
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Happy Women's History Month everyone.... Feel free to post about any woman that you feel has contributed to history. A few favorites of mine would be Cleopatra, Michelle Obama, Hillary Clinton, Ann Coulter, and Jacky Kennedy..oh and Nancy Regan..but the list goes on and on.
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| Mar 4 @ 9:01 PM |
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onoudn
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Ok I see how this is going to work. I'm a guy so what am I doing posting about Women's History Month. Go ahead then ladies, and post your own thread and comment on that one. See if I care... 
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| Mar 4 @ 9:42 PM |
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robodad
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SimplyImp
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Thanks Ono - that's a really nice gesture.
Flora Stone Mather
Daughter of Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue and Ohio’s Western Reserve
The biography of one of Cleveland’s leading philanthropists
Flora Amelia Stone, born in 1852, was the youngest daughter of New England–born entrepreneur Amasa Stone and his wife, Julia. Stone, who settled on Cleveland’s Euclid Avenue, earned his fortune in railroads and bridge building, and was president and director of numerous railroads and other industrial and financial corporations. In 1881 Flora wed her neighbor, Samuel Mather, a marriage that united two of Cleveland’s—and the nation’s—wealthiest and most influential families. The couple, recognized as a true love match, not simply a marriage of convenience, had four children.
Upon her father’s sudden death by suicide, Flora assumed many of his philanthropic responsibilities and undertook charitable endeavors of her own. She was at the center of many charities and organizations that addressed the physical, intellectual, cultural, and spiritual needs of Clevelanders, especially the poor, women, and children. Credited with establishing the Goodrich House settlement, she also supported the Children’s Aid Society and gave generously to promote women’s education at Western Reserve University.
In her philanthropy, Flora gave unsparingly of herself—her time and energy as well as her money—and never sought credit for her many contributions. Flora Stone Mather died from breast cancer in 1909. The region and city still benefit from her generosity, compassion, and foresight.
Rich with regional history, this biography of an influential Clevelander will be important reading for students of women’s studies and the history of philanthropy as well as those interested in Ohio’s Western Reserve and its people.
http://upress.kent.edu/books/Haddad_G.htm
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| Mar 4 @ 10:08 PM |
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SimplyImp
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Sarah H. Goode (b.1850s-d. c. 1905) was the first African-American woman to receive a patent from the United States Patent and Trademark Office.
Born a slave, Goode gained her freedom after the American Civil War and moved to Chicago, Illinois. She soon opened a furniture store that was modestly successful. Due to the limited living spaces of urban life, many of her customers complained about not having enough room to place full-size beds in their apartments. Goode was inspired to design and construct what is known today as the Folding Bed.
Goode's first model of a bed folded into a cabinet. It additionally served as a roll-top desk and stationery shelf. Her idea was so widely used that Goode applied for and was awarded a patent on July 14, 1885. (Patent #322,177[1], for a cabinet bed).
A similar style of bed was patented more than thirty years later in 1916 as the Murphy bed. It was concealed behind a closet door or wall, rather than inside a piece of furniture, such as the cabinet bed. Today it is known as a "folding bed" or the "hide away bed".
Goode's name appears in the Cook County, Illinois US Census for 1880, when she was living with her husband Archibald, her daughter, and several boarders. Her age is listed as 24, giving her a birth date of around 1856. She is listed as Mulatto, as is her daughter; Archibald is listed as White. While other biographical sources agree that Goode was born into slavery, the Census notes she stated she was born in Spain to Spanish parents.
A 43-year-old woman named Sarah E. Goode died in Chicago on April 8, 1905.
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| Mar 5 @ 12:23 AM |
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onoudn
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Born: 69 B.C.
Birthplace: Egypt
Died: 30 B.C. (Suicide, possibly by snake)
Best Known As: The famously alluring Queen of Egypt
Cleopatra (actually Cleopatra VII) was the last of the Ptolemies, the Macedonian-descended pharaohs who ruled Egypt beginning in 304 B.C. Cleopatra has come down through history less for her administrative skills than for her beguiling ways, which she used in an attempt to keep Egypt free from Roman domination. Among those whom she charmed was Julius Caesar, with whom she had a son, Caesarion. After Caesar's death, Cleopatra joined forces with Caesar's colleague Marc Antony; they became lovers and political allies against Antony's rival Octavian. Octavian's forces finally defeated those of Antony and Cleopatra in the naval battle of Actium in 31 B.C. The two lovers fled to Alexandria and, faced with defeat by Octavian, committed suicide. Legend has it that Cleopatra died by the self-inflicted bite of a poisonous snake called an asp, though no firm evidence exists to support that claim.
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| Mar 5 @ 10:12 AM |
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eastham
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We have quite a few important women buried at Woodlawn who championed for women's suffrage, including:
Elizabeth Cady Stanton
Carrie Chapman Catt
Alva Vanderbilt Belmont
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| Mar 7 @ 1:36 AM |
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Angel54214
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Because They're Worth It: 15 women receive research grants from UNESCO and L'Oreal
Fifteen female researchers are celebrating International Women's Day (March 8) a few days early. They've received fellowships of up to $40,000 each to pursue doctoral or post-doctoral research through the United Nations Education, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)-L'Oréal For Women in Science International Fellowship program, announced this week in Paris.
This year marks a full decade of the program, which has funded 135 women from more than 70 countries. Christine Ouinsavi from Benin, who received funds to research forest conservation in 2007, is now that country's Minister of Trade and Industry, and Pascale Cossart, who won a fellowship in 1998 has gone on to become an award-winning bacteriologist at the Institut Pasteur of Paris.
This year's winners include Ishrat Bano from Pakistan who will work at Cambridge University in the U.K. on the development of magnetic nanoparticles to improve drug administration and Fina Kurreeman from Mauritius who is set to examine genes that may be linked to rheumatoid arthritis at Harvard Medical School in Boston.
Five accomplished female scientists were also honored as "For Women in Science" Award Laureates, which comes with a cash prize of $100,000. Beatriz Barbuy, vice-president of the International Astronomical Union, was chosen as one of this year's Laureates. "To be seen as a role model is both humbling and gratifying," she said in a statement. "My hope is that the Laureates will inspire young women worldwide to vigorously pursue their passion for the sciences."
According to a 2006 UNESCO report, only about 27 percent of scientists worldwide are women. The National Science Foundation (NSF), which has tracked degrees and gender since 1966, says that the number of women getting undergraduate degrees in science and engineering has quadrupled over the past 50 years, making them nearly equal to the number of men getting them. But the NSF says that women still lag behind in the advanced-degree department, accounting for half as many of the doctorates in those fields in 1999 (the last year the data was recorded). http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=because-theyre-worth-it-15-women-re-2009-03-06
 
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