by Michele Genthon | May 14, 2016 | Business and Economics, Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders, Politics and Government, Sports and Adventure
Time magazine often highlights First Women in its annual list of 100 Most Influential People and this year was no exception. It is a pleasure to feature them on this blog posting, but also of interest is noting which people were selected by Time to write the profiles...
by Michele Genthon | Nov 28, 2015 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Last week my husband and I flew to San Francisco, into that rarefied air that can only be California. Our first stop was San Francisco, or the polyglot that columnist Herb Caen used to call Baghdad by the Bay (back when Baghdad had a romantic aura about it). As we...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 5, 2015 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
Serena Williams is favored to win the U.S. Open. If she does she will have a calendar Grand Slam: winning the Australian Open, French Open, Wimbledon, and U.S. Open in the same year. She will be the first player to do this since Steffi Graf in 1988. Serena is probably...
by Michele Genthon | Jul 7, 2014 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
THE GOOD NEWS: Women CEO’s appear to earn similar salaries to their male counterparts, although it might be noted that the top earner started out life as a man THE BAD NEWS: The number of women CEO’s has stalled. They hold only 14.6% of executive posts overall and...
by Michele Genthon | Jun 1, 2014 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement
Time magazine recently published its annual listing of the 100 Most Influential People and a number of the American women were First Women To. . . –Janet Yellen, first woman to head the Federal Reserve System. The article about her was written by Christine...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 8, 2014 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer. It sings because it has a song. [Maya Angelou] Maya Angelou was the first African-American woman to. . . –work as a cable car conductor in San Francisco –work as a cable car conductor in San...
