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Marie Van Brittan Brown, Inventor
Guest post author: Lily Does your house have a security system? Marie Van Brittan Brown was the inventor of the first home security systems which made the homes of so many people safer! Born on October 20, 1922 in New York, she was an inventor and Nurse. Marie Van...
Clara Barton: Not Only an Angel of the Battlefield
For a long period of history, and even today, women are the ones who tend to take care of the sick. This was true in childhood of Clara Barton, her brother was seriously injured and she took care of him during his long recovery - two years, starting when shew as only...
Kids Need to See It to Be It
The Problem of the Missing Role Models When I saw this tweet from the terrific kids' show Sci Girls, about Kamala Harris, I thought, "Yes!" All people need to see themselves in books, movies, tv, and the real world, represented. No one likes to be left out, but more...
Frida Hansen, Weaver
Imagine you’re a lady born in 1855, you live in Norway and you were raised as a proper lady from a wealthy family. You were given an education at private schools and taught to do embroidery and to draw and paint. You grow up, get married and everything is fine, until...
5 Easy Ways to Help Kids “See it to Be It”
As parents and other important adults in kids' lives, we need to counteract negative stereotypes they'll encounter. Here's a handy printable with 5 easy ways to do that. Kids need to see role models in their world and lives in order to envision themselves as -...
7 Inventions by Black Inventors that Benefit People Everyday
Water guns, the telephone, caller ID, traffic lights with three lights - all things we take for granted today and probably never think about who invented them or what life was like before these wonderful inventions. Here are 7 Black American inventors and what they...
7 Women Inventors Whose Inventions You Use Everyday
Women have always been inventive, even if we don't always hear about it. Here are 7 things you use or encounter every single day, and probably didn't know that a woman invented or co-invented it! Woven Clothing Elizabeth Wayland Barber, he author of "Women's Work,...
7 Women Pilots Who Aren’t Amelia Earhart
We love Amelia Earhart, don't get us wrong, but there are so many amazing and brave women pilots to know about! Here are just 7 of them. Thérèse Peltier was a sculptor who learned to fly from her friend and flew in a straight line for 200 meters, about 2.5 meters off...
The Guerrilla Girls
Who are the Guerrilla Girls? Every other artist we have talked about so far is just one person. The Guerrilla Girls are a group of women, but nobody knows who they really are. Each woman in the group takes the name of a famous woman artist and only appears in public...
Ruth Asawa, Who Drew in the Air with Wire Sculpture
Ruth Asawa 1926-2013 When you see a sculpture by Ruth Asawa, her amazing shapes created out of wire, you may experience a sense of awe and wonder, “how on earth are those made?” The shapes appear light weight, seem to float, or actually float, and are sometimes made...
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