Happy International Women’s Day!

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Today is International Women’s Day, which is part of Women’s History Month (post on that coming soon). Today is a global day celebrating the social, economic, cultural, and political achievements of women. But it is equally important to look at how far we still have to go. I wrote this last August for Women’s Equality Day […]

America’s Forgotten Suffragists is Here!

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Happy Women’s History Month!! I can hardly believe this day is here! Today is also the publication of America’s Forgotten Suffragists: Virginia and Francis Minor. It’s not only my first biography, but the first ever written about them. The book that started with a passing reference in my research for Madame Presidentess and the question […]

Women’s History Month: Meditations on Women and War

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Happy Women’s History Month, everyone! Here in the U.S. I am blessed to be celebrating this month in peace, but I have been thinking a lot about the women of Ukraine, who are once again bravely defending their homes, some for the second or third time in their lives. From members of Parliament to citizens […]

From Property to Power – A History of Women’s Rights in Marriage and Divorce in the U.S.

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March is National Women’s History Month and March 8 is International Women’s Equality Day. Despite representing 50.8% of people in the United States[1] and coming a long way since our nation’s founding, women are still considered a minority group. That is because, like people of color of both sexes, they have fewer rights compared to […]

Feb. 3 – National Female Physician’s Day and the story of Dr. Elizabeth Blackwell

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This is my monthly column for the Women in Leadership Newsletter for my day job. Did you know that Feb. 3 is National Women Physicians Day? That’s because it is also the birthday (1821) of Elizabeth Blackwell, the first woman to graduate from medical school and become a doctor in the United States. Elizabeth was […]

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