by ronfrazer | Fri Mar 2019 | Baha'i Faith, Women
In 1912, the Son of Bahá’u’lláh, `Abdu’l-Bahá, visited Great Britain and gave numerous talks to hundreds of people. While He was in London, the following events occurred and were recorded. `Abdu’l-Bahá’s interest in women’s work and progress is well...
by ronfrazer | Sun Dec 2018 | Baha'i Faith, gender equity, Women
Shabnam Raayai, a brilliant Iranian Bahá’í, who was expelled from Iran’s best engineering university because she was a Bahá’í, was accepted by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where she received a doctorate in Mechanical Engineering. She...
by ronfrazer | Thu Nov 2018 | gender equity, Women
The winners of the Girl Rising Creative Challenge have been announced. There were 882 entries from 110 countries. While there were only 12 winners, each of the 882 entries showed that the world will be in a better place if the obsolete patriarchy can be nudged aside...
by ronfrazer | Mon Oct 2018 | gender equity, Women
On October 20, 2018, Ethiopia elected Sahle-Work Zewde as their first female president. Her appointment followed a cabinet restructuring in which women were appointed to half of the ministerial positions, including the Minister of Defense and the Minister of Peace....
by ronfrazer | Thu Oct 2018 | Photography, Women
The 19th century wasn’t easy for photographers. The cameras were huge and the processing was messy and difficult. It would be 150 years before digital photography would make photographs easy and ubiquitous. In spite of the difficulty of the early processes,...
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