by Amy Land | Mar 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
Women have started businesses for centuries both in order to earn money to support their families and to satisfy their own economic objectives. This month we profile two entrepreneurs: Polly Bemis and Linda Alvarado.
Polly Bemis’s resilience and unquenchable spirit led her to become the foremost pioneer on central Idaho’s Salmon River. Born in China, Bemis in 1872 was sold by her family for bags of seed during a famine. She ended up in Warrens (today Warren), Idaho as either a prostitute, concubine, or in some other form of sexual slavery. There she worked in a saloon, learned English and somehow managed to maintain her self-respect and dignity. After she obtained her freedom, she married Charlie Bemis, who ran the saloon next to a dance hall, and ran a boarding house in Warrens.
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by Amy Land | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
The recent movies RBG and On the Basis of Sex demonstrate some of the hurdles U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg had to overcome. In this month’s ENewsletter, we profile two other legal pioneers: Florence Allen and Constance Baker Motley.
A woman of many firsts, Florence Allen did her undergraduate work (Phi Beta Kappa) at Case Western University. Since the law school at Case Western did not admit women, she began her law education at the University of Chicago in 1909, the only woman in a class of 100 students. Having to pay for her education, she moved to New York City, worked with immigrants and as a lecturer before enrolling at the New York University Law School. Although second in her class when she graduated in 1913, she did not receive any job offers from the New York legal firms (the same situation faced decades later by RBG) so she moved back to Cleveland, Ohio.
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by Amy Land | Feb 1, 2019 | In The News, Newsletters
Women artists, like women in every endeavor, have been overlooked throughout history. In this month’s ENewsletter we feature two women whose contributions to the arts and culture are enduring: Georgia O’Keeffe and Wilhemina Holladay, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
The “Mother of American modernism” artist Georgia O’Keeffe is famously remembered for her paintings of large flowers and depictions of landscapes – particularly those of New Mexico and New York City. O’Keeffe felt constrained during her initial years of art education but during her summer art studies between her years of teaching, she began to develop her own personal style. By 1915, that style was emerging and her first solo commercial exhibition was held in New York City in 1917. In 1929, she began spending part of her year in the Southwest and painting evocations of that area. After her husband died, she lived permanently in New Mexico.
by Amy Land | Dec 13, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
National Statuary Hall in the United States Capitol building in Washington, D.C., contains 100 statues – two from each state. Of that total, nine (9%) are women – Helen Keller (Alabama), Dr. Florence Sabin (Colorado), Frances Willard (Illinois), Maria Sanford (Minnesota), Jeannette Rankin (Montana), Sarah Winnemucca (Nevada), Sakakawea (North Dakota), Mother Joseph (Washington), and Esther Hobart Morris (Wyoming). In this month’s ENewsletter, we feature two of these outstanding women – Sakakawea and Sarah Winnemucca, both of whom have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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by Amy Land | Nov 8, 2018 | In The News, Newsletters
November ENewsletter
Nobel Laureates
Very exciting news came in October 2018 – women were going to share the Nobel Prize in
Chemistry and the Nobel Prize in Physics! Donna Strickland, one of the trio to be awarded the
2018 Nobel Prize in Physics works at the University of Waterloo in Canada. Her prize is being
awarded for discovering how to amplify the intensity of laser light in ever-briefer pulses. This work
paved the way for precision eye surgery and cancer therapy, among other advances. Dr.
Strickland becomes the first woman to receive the Nobel Prize in Physics since American Maria
Goeppert-Mayer in 1963. Fran Arnold will receive the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for her work on
the directed evolution of enzymes.
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