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Jun 14, 2018
This woman realized the sun’s potential long before the rest of the country
Mária Telkes lead the way in solar power development
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Jun 13, 2018
Towards a history of women of color in the workplace
Resurfacing snapshots from my mother’s work life
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Jun 8, 2018
Miss America 1968: When civil rights and feminist activists converged
Miss Black America was born to tell the country that black is beautiful
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Ashawnta Jackson
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Jun 7, 2018
This woman shattered the gender barrier in pro baseball
When Toni Stone joined the Negro League, she became the first woman regular on a big-league team
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Meagan Day
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Jun 1, 2018
The extraordinary courage of an ordinary woman: Lorena Weeks broke barriers for working women
She’d been told that men are the breadwinners, so “women just don’t need this type of job”
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Mar 11, 2018
‘The Year of the Woman’ wasn’t actually that great for women
In 1992, even with tremendous gains…
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Laura Smith
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Mar 5, 2018
She was the first woman senator. Her term lasted exactly a day
Rebecca Felton was a pawn in a sexist…
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Brendan Seibel
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Feb 19, 2018
Sexy stewardesses were exploited by airlines to sell more tickets — until women fought back
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Laura Smith
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Dec 6, 2017
This congresswoman’s husband conspired with sexist politicians to destroy her career
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Stephanie Buck
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Nov 23, 2017
The passive-aggressive politics of 1970s singles cookbooks
Women “basically want to be conquered — not…
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