by Michele Genthon | May 4, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
There were two major developments for First Woman in the U.S. Senate this year. One received extensive press coverage; the other did not. Tammy Duckworth Tammy Duckworth, Senator from Illinois, holds many firsts: –First Woman double amputee of the Iraq War...
by Michele Genthon | Apr 20, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Law and Law Enforcement, Politics and Government
When First Women leave us, it is worthwhile to pause and learn what their lives taught us. Louise Slaughter served in Congress until the end of her life; Jeannette Woldseth fought to save lives as she was losing her own. Both show how a passion for others can fill a...
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 | Feb 11, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
Tammy Duckworth will be the First Woman in the U.S. Senate to give birth while in office. Senator Duckworth is surprised at the attention she has received since announcing her pregnancy. “It is somewhat ridiculous,” she says, “that it’s 2018 and this is such big...
by Michele Genthon | Jan 17, 2018 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
When Anna Mae Hays was born, it would be another six months before a woman’s right to vote was enshrined in the Constitution. Her lifespan, over the next 98 years, is a parable of the roads women traveled during the century following the Nineteenth Amendment. Hays was...
