by Michele Genthon | Mar 8, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, General
It has been 99 years since the first Women’s Day was observed in February, 1909. In 1975 the United Nations proclaimed March 8 as Women’s Day. Today women in Spain are on strike, banging pots and telling men to fix their own dinners. Women in the Ukraine are holding...
by Michele Genthon | Mar 2, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, General
(I haven’t published any political blogs before, but I found my experience this week so empowering I had to share.) Does one vote count? Is one voice heard? It’s easy to be discouraged but heed the event that occurred this very week in the state of Washington. LAST...
by Michele Genthon | Mar 14, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, General, Politics and Government
The first six chapters of my book on First Women are drafted and my research keeps revealing ironies that intrigue me. I thought I’d share four ironies I uncovered in three of my First Women stories. Irony One: Nellie Tayloe Ross was the First Woman governor in the...
by Michele Genthon | Aug 19, 2013 | FIRST WOMEN, General
The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation. [19th Amendment, U.S. Constitution] The nineteenth...
