by Elaine Luther | Dec 7, 2018 | Uncategorized
Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin was a British-born American astronomer and astrophysicist who was born May 10, 1910 and studied at Cambridge University and Harvard University. She’s the person who figured out that stars are mostly made of the lightest two elements...
by Elaine Luther | Dec 6, 2018 | Uncategorized
If you study women’s history, something that comes up a lot is that for centuries, women weren’t allowed to learn, either weren’t allowed to go to school at all, or once they could go to school, there were limits and certain subjects weren’t...
by Elaine Luther | Dec 4, 2018 | Uncategorized
“Each time a girl opens a book and reads a womanless history, she learns she is worth less.” This painful but true statement was written by Myra and David Sadker, in Failing at Fairness: How America’s Schools Cheat Girls. The women and men of color I...
by Elaine Luther | Dec 3, 2018 | Uncategorized
While we’re writing and recording podcast episodes as fast as we can, there are so many amazing people out there! Here’s a list of 5 podcasts that interview women working in STEM fields....
by Elaine Luther | Dec 2, 2018 | Actors and Actresses, Uncategorized
When I first came across Ruth Draper, it said that she was a monologist. What’s THAT? I wondered, so I read more to find out. A monologist is an actor or actress who performs monologues, which means only one person is on stage and speaking. In Hamlet, the famous...
by Elaine Luther | Dec 1, 2018 | Uncategorized
I am super excited about this book, from the folks who brought you the Rebel Girls books. Stories for Boys Who Dare to Be Different, by Ben Brooks and illustrated by Quinton Wintor. The sample story in the photograph is about Daniel Anthony, whose daughter told...
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