With the recent passing of Elinor Ostrom, the first women to receive the Nobel Prize in Economics, we decided to highlight female Nobel Laureates this month. In addition to Elinor Ostrom, we feature Toni Morrison, Rosalyn Yalow, and Jody Williams.
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As we think about women and their friendships during the month of September, we are drawn to the thought that 
women change the world through their networks of friends and acquaintances. Five women who changed the world met in Waterloo, New York and decided to hold the first Women’s Right Convention. As a result of that convention (held in Seneca Falls, New York on July 19-20, 1848 at the Wesleyan Chapel), and many years of effort by them and by others, today women have the right to vote, the right to own property, the right to an education, and the right to custody of the children in the case of a divorce.
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