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To round out the end of Women's History Month...of course we have to mention the Cosmosphere's founder, Patty Carey (1921-2003)!
Have you ever wondered why Hutchinson, Kansas, is the home of the Cosmosphere? It's because of our wonderful founder, Patty Carey. 1/7
Have you ever wondered why Hutchinson, Kansas, is the home of the Cosmosphere? It's because of our wonderful founder, Patty Carey. 1/7
Her desire to share the wonders of astronomy became the foundation for the Cosmosphere's internationally recognized space artifact collection. 2/7
Fueled by her life-long interest in science, Patty established the first planetarium in the state of Kansas in 1962, called "Hutchinson's Theatre of the Skies" and later changed to "The Hutchinson Planetarium," ... 3/7
Eileen Collins was born in Elmira, New York in 1956. When she was young, she found her inspiration in the Mercury astronauts – but noticed during that time, there wasn't any women astronauts to look up to. 1/10
She received an associate’s in math/science from Corning CC and went on to achieve a bachelor’s in math and economics from Syracuse University. After that she got her master’s in operations research at Stanford AND a master’s in space systems management from Webster Uni. 2/10
She attended Vance Air Force Base where she was one of four women chosen for the Undergraduate Pilot Training. There she earned her pilot wings and became a T-38 Talon instructor pilot and eventually a C-141 Starlifter pilot. 3/10
@poppy_northcutt graduated from University of Texas at Austin with a degree in mathematics and started as a contractor for TRW Systems (now a part of Northrup Grumman) working for NASA in 1965 as a human “computress.” 1/8
“What a weird title this is,” she recalled thinking then, in an interview with TIME magazine in 2019 “Not only do they think I’m a computer, but they think I’m a gendered computer.” She was promoted a year later to Return-to-Earth Specialist, calculating mission trajectories.2/8
Making her the first women in a technical position at Johnson Space Center, Houston, TX.
Poppy was the only woman working in NASA's Mission Control during the Apollo 8 mission. (Her work involved Trans-Earth Injection.) 3/8
Poppy was the only woman working in NASA's Mission Control during the Apollo 8 mission. (Her work involved Trans-Earth Injection.) 3/8
New #womenshistorymonth thread. Most people are familiar with the idea of the stereotypical 1950s #housewife, popularized by TV sitcoms, like Ozzie and Harriet and Leave it to Beaver. #whm2021 @womnknowhistory (1/15)
That imagery, though, is flawed because it overlooks the paradoxical impact of #WWII and its effect on women’s participation in the workforce. #womenshistory #whm2021 #twitterstorians (2/15)
#WWII made extraordinary economic demands on women and it pulled an unprecedented number of women into the labor force. #laborhistory #genderhistory (3/15)
New #Womenshistorymonth thread. Was the #NineteenthAmendment only about women’s right to #vote?
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
#suffrage #whm2021 #whm #womenshistorymonth2021 #feminism (1/15)
That is precisely the question that politicians, activists, and legal authorities fought over in the years following the #NineteenthAmendment ‘s ratification. #whm2021 #suffrage #rights (2/15)
Dolores Cacuango was a pioneer in the fight for indigenous rights in Ecuador. She stood out in the political arena and was one of the first activists of Ecuadorian feminism. #WHM2021
"We are like the straw from the fells of the Andes, while you pull it out, it grows again."
"We are like the straw from the fells of the Andes, while you pull it out, it grows again."
Dolores was well aware of the difficult situation of indigenous women in the Haciendas, often being raped, beaten and forced to work without any remuneration, but appealed to the whole of society with her words.
“We want the indigenous to know who they are giving birth to, so they are never again raped by their devil boss, so no more children are born without a father and be despised children,” she used to say.
It’s time for our second #WomensHistoryMonth guest post from @rosiesplaques! This time, Nicole tells us about the unstoppable woman behind this handmade blue plaque, which was put up outside The Assembly House in May 2019. Read on below! #WHM2021
Photo credit: @NorfolkHC
Photo credit: @NorfolkHC
“Dorothy Jewson was a fearless, trailblazing feminist, born in 1884 of an alderman in the coal and timber business and a mother from Norwich’s famous Jarrold family. She came from Thorpe Hamlet and was educated at Norwich Girls’ School when it was situated in the Assembly House.”
“Initially a teacher, she became active in politics. She joined the suffrage movement, pressed for alleviation of poverty, supported female workers’ rights and took an anti-war stance. In 1924 she was one of the first women elected to Parliament and gave a rousing maiden speech.”
Empress Zewditu was Empress of Ethiopia from 1916 to 1930. The first female head of an internationally recognized country in Africa in the 19th and 20th centuries. #WHM2021
"Zewditu did promote the Ethiopian Orthodox Church and built numerous new churches and temples throughout the Empire. She also allowed Mekonnen to abolish slavery and lead the Empire into the League of Nations."
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Empress Zewditu with one of her favored priests.
American world traveler, adventuress, heiress and mystic, Aimée Crocker was dubbed the “Queen of Bohemia” in the 1910s by the world press for living an uninhibited, sexually liberated and aggressively non-conformist life in San Francisco, New York and Paris. #WHM2021
She spent the bulk of her fortune inherited from her father Edwin B. Crocker, a railroad tycoon and art collector, on traveling all over the world (lingering the longest in Hawaii, India, Japan and China) and partying with accomplished artists of her time.
She was famous for her collections of tattoos, pet snakes, pearls, husbands and lovers. Aimée was by all accounts, an Olympic-caliber sexual athlete; she married five times in five different decades of her life, each man being in his twenties.
We are celebrating #WomensHistoryMonth at Past Preservers by showcasing our amazing experts!
We want you to get to know them as well as we do, so we made a list for you! twitter.com/i/lists/101742…
Over the month we will introduce you to them individually on this thread! #WHM2021
We want you to get to know them as well as we do, so we made a list for you! twitter.com/i/lists/101742…
Over the month we will introduce you to them individually on this thread! #WHM2021
We would like to start by Introducing Alex Iszatt, Forensic Criminologist & Former CSI.
A real history buff, her interest in forensic science has seen her give advice on cold cases & historical crimes.
Find out more about Alex at #WomensHistoryMonth
A real history buff, her interest in forensic science has seen her give advice on cold cases & historical crimes.
Find out more about Alex at #WomensHistoryMonth
Its our pleasure to introduce you to Historian & Author Alexandra Jones!
"I am an American historian of WWII & the early Cold War period, I began my career in museums & I now work on exposing stolen cultural property" #WomensHistoryMonth
"I am an American historian of WWII & the early Cold War period, I began my career in museums & I now work on exposing stolen cultural property" #WomensHistoryMonth
