The Resolute Woman

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  • “We’re done, no more”

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    Time magazine has named “the silence breakers” its person of the year for 2017. The magazine is referring, of course, to the women who have come forward in droves to accuse powerful men and women of sexual harassment and assault. As actress Alyssa Milano, who has helped promote the #MeToo movement, emphasizes, “As women we…

  • Everything is more complicated

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    Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we first assume—and that being able to derive happiness from discovery is a recipe for a beautiful life,” says Dr. Hope Jahren, a geochemist and geobiologist. She spoke at the Dallas Women’s Foundation’s 32 annual luncheon in October.

  • Suffragettes–childless communists?

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    Texas became the first state in the South to ratify the 19th Amendment in 1919. “With high hopes and enthusiasm, women stepped forth into a world in which they were citizens at last,” concluded Jane Y. McCallum. McCallum had been particularly effective convincing Texas legislators that women deserved the right to vote. The fact that…

  • Hillary Clinton at 80

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    Hillary Clinton “writes she plans to stay alive to see the first woman become president,” writes Susanna Schrobsdorff in the September 25, 2017, issue of Time. “When I read that, I envisioned her at age 80, back on the Inaugural podium in a white pantsuit….Maybe all those women and girls from all those marches will…

  • “Childless, short-haired communists”

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    Jane McCallum was featured in an exhibit about women’s suffrage at this year’s State Fair of Texas. Texas, I was pleased to discover, was the first state in the South to ratify the 19th Amendment, which gave women the right to vote in 1920. McCallum, a suffragette, lobbied the men in the Texas legislature, the…

  • The work of today

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    “The work of today is the history of tomorrow, and we are its makers,” said Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of Girl Scouts. I just returned from the Girl Scout National Convention, which is held every three years, and I’ll share some Girl Scout news in the next couple of blog posts. –Joy

  • Talent that wears skirts

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    “Tremendous amounts of talent are lost to our society just because that talent wears skirts,” Shirley Chisholm once said.

  • The Hermione Effect

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    How did Harry Potter change the world? One way is the Hermione Effect, says Eleanor Spencer-Regan, who teaches a course about Harry Potter at Durham University in the United Kingdom. The Hermione Effect, she explains, is “the celebration of smart and bookish women.” We read “20 Ways Harry Potter Changed the World” in the October…

  • Sexism is a clear challenge

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    “Sexism still exerts a pull on our lives and our choices,” says Hillary Rodham Clinton. “It is a very subtle but clear challenge that has to be acknowledged and confronted. So we have to be doing all we can to open the aperture of understanding and acceptance.” We read about Hillary Clinton in the September…

  • Her first spacewalk

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    “All six of us in that first batch of women felt a self-imposed pressure,” says Kathryn Sullivan, the first American woman to walk in space. “We knew our performance would have a big influence on the prospects of the women who would come after us. I was thrilled to be tapped, but the ‘first female…