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Liza Mundy (born July 8, 1960) [1] is an American journalist, non-fiction writer, and fellow at New America Foundation. [2]She has written a number of books and her writings have also appeared in The Atlantic, [3] Politico, The New York Times, The New Republic, Slate, [4] The Guardian, [5] and The Washington Post.
Vera Glaser (1916 – November 26, 2008) was a reporter, journalist, and is considered a pioneer for women's rights.She is best known for challenging President Richard Nixon at a press conference on the lack of women in his administration, which ultimately helped lead to the establishment of the White House Task Force on Women's Rights and Responsibilities.
Untold Stories Myanmar Visaka Dharmadasa: 2018 Peace activist and founder of the Association of War Affected Women, she was awarded for encouraging important dialogues between women of different ethnicities in Sri Lanka, advocating for the empowerment and inclusion of women in peacebuilding process. Untold Stories Sri Lanka Logshari Kunwar 2018
A Matter of Simple Justice: The Untold Story of Barbara Hackman Franklin and A Few Good Women is based on the "A Few Good Women" oral history project. In a two-part format, the book first focuses on the historical narrative of the Nixon administration's efforts to bring women into high-level government positions, Franklin's specific efforts ...
Guests were able to watch a screening of "Trailblazing Women in Ohio Politics," a WBGU docuseries, which looks at the achievements and barriers broken by women of both political parties in Ohio.
Mae Louise Miller (born Mae Louise Wall; August 24, 1943 – 2014) was an American woman who was kept in modern-day slavery, known as peonage, near Gillsburg, Mississippi and Kentwood, Louisiana until her family achieved freedom in early 1961.
Decades after she was picked to be America's first teacher in space, Christa McAuliffe is still a pioneer — this time as the first woman to be memorialized on the grounds of New Hampshire's ...
In “The Six: The Untold Stories of America’s First Women Astronauts,” Loren Grush recounts the pressures and challenges faced by NASA’s first class of female astronauts.