by Michele Genthon | Jun 20, 2019 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
The United States military is making progress incorporating women into its higher ranks. Slowly, but still progress. Within the last week, there have been three promotions for military women that made the news: Captain Dianna Wolfson, of...
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...
by Michele Genthon | May 4, 2017 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
Four years ago, I wrote about Lieutenant General Michelle Johnson when she became the First Woman Superintendent of the U.S. Air Force Academy, making her the First Woman to lead any U.S. Service Academy. She had several other firsts: the First Woman cadet wing...
by Michele Genthon | May 4, 2016 | FIRST WOMEN, Military and Crusaders
In August, 2015 Captain Kristen Griest and First Lieutenant Shaye Haver completed the Army’s Ranger School. Now Captain Griest has just been named an infantry officer, the First Woman to be admitted to this specialty in the Army. This was made possible by Secretary of...
