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,...
by ronfrazer | Sun Nov 2017 | Women
Mahvash Sabet is free now. It takes a special person to weather ten years of torture in an Iranian prison. Mahvash Sabet was a teacher and principal who was fired for being a Bahá’í. Then she helped start an online school because Bahá’í students were not...
by ronfrazer | Thu Nov 2017 | Uncategorized, Women
If you ever wondered how the electrical signals make your heart beat, let this young lady explain it to you. Amoy Antunet wants to be a neuroscientist or a neurosurgeon. She is passionately interested in science. Ms. Antunet has several videos on YouTube that...
by ronfrazer | Mon Oct 2017 | Women
Flint Michigan is plagued with lead in city’s drinking water. It’s a long, sad story, but the city’s water has made, and is still making, people very sick. An 11-year-old girl has developed a device that can instantly tell whether water contains lead...
by ronfrazer | Tue Oct 2017 | Women
Dottie DeHart published a fascinating article in TidewaterWomen.com in which she lists several reasons why women succeed. We all know that women have advantages over their male counterparts, but I hadn’t seen them so clearly enumerated before. With colleges and...
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