by Michele Genthon | Dec 29, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
This year the United Nations selected Wonder Woman as an honorary ambassador to promote gender equity. An uproar ensued, and the United Nations withdrew the ambassadorship because Wonder Woman was too sexy. Apparently strong women cannot also be sexy women....
by Michele Genthon | Nov 8, 2016 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Both of the editorials in The Seattle Times today are about women, not surprising given that today is historic. For the first time since this country was founded we are voting in an election where a woman is a major contender for the Presidency. Hillary Clinton is not...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 26, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN
Last weekend I attended a concert by the Lake Union Civic Orchestra and found a First Woman in the program. But, first, about the concert. I was attracted to the concert because they were playing two fanfares: Aaron Copland’s stately Fanfare for the Common Man and...
by Michele Genthon | Oct 12, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
Sutematsu Yamakawa Oyama was the first Japanese woman to earn a bachelor’s degree. Her remarkable feat occurred in the late 1800’s at Vassar College. Sutematsu was part of a Japanese experiment that is engagingly recounted in Daughters of the Samurai by Janice P....
by Michele Genthon | Sep 25, 2016 | Arts, Entertainment, and Media, FIRST WOMEN, Sports and Adventure
I would like to have been a fly on the wall when Rick Singer and Kevin Falls “pitched” their idea for a new television series about a woman baseball player who makes it to the major leagues. The series, aptly named Pitch, debuted last week on Fox. Ginny Baker is the...
by Michele Genthon | Sep 18, 2016 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN
“To be the head of an institution that’s associated with knowledge and reading and scholarship when slaves were forbidden to learn how to read on punishment of losing limbs, that’s kind of something.” [Carla Hayden] In the United States 83% of librarians are women,...
