by Michele Genthon | Jan 20, 2022 | Aviation and Space, FIRST WOMEN
Ann Baumgartner was the First Woman to pilot a jet airplane. Airplanes enchanted Baumgartner from the day Amelia Earhart, the First Woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean, visited her grade school class. She and her father would go to the airport and watch mail...
by Michele Genthon | Jan 6, 2022 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Aviation and Space, Business and Economics, Contemporary Women, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government, Sports and Adventure
Most of us would prefer not to look back on 2021, myself included. On the bright side, however, there were more First Women in 2021. Here are just a few of my favorites: Kamala Harris Much is made of the fact that Kamala Harris is the First Black Woman to serve as...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 30, 2021 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Charlotte Ray’s father, Reverend Charles Bennett Ray, was a minister and abolitionist, actively working with the Underground Railroad. He also owned an African American newspaper, the Colored American. His three daughters all received an education. Charlotte attended...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 16, 2021 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s awareness of women’s issues began when she was just a girl. Reading her father’s law books, she realized that men and women were treated differently under the law. Her father would not let her tear the offending pages out of his law books, but...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 18, 2021 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Religion
In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell became the First Woman to receive a medical degree in the United States. Her younger sister, Emily Blackwell, was the third. Together the two sisters founded the New York Infirmary for Women and Children which later became a medical college...
by Michele Genthon | May 26, 2021 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
In the 1950’s, when television was still new and open to experimentation, seven women assisted at its birth: Martha Rountree, Hazel Scott, Anna May Wong, Gertrude Berg, Betty White, and Lucille Ball. They were not the only women in early television, but these...
