The early women engineers in the U.S. had to deal with a good deal of prejudice. They faced discrimination, disbelief that they could be engineers, and other hardships.
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The media has a tremendous influence on our lives; talk show hosts often become a member of the family. Two of the women profiled in Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America became influential and well known talk show hosts.
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Women on Team USA excelled at the 2024 Olympics in Paris. Twenty-six of the forty gold medals and sixty-nine of the 126 total medals won by Team USA were won by women.
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Women involved in manufacturing and construction may have been rare in U.S. history – or invisible – but they did exist. Rebecca Webb Lukens ran a steel manufacturing company in the 1800s.
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In May of 2024, a plaza and statue were unveiled honoring Sojourner Truth at the location in Akron, Ohio where she gave her iconic speech in 1851, “Ain’t I a Woman?” Also in May, a movie came out titled Young Woman and the Sea profiling the story of swimmer Gertrude Ederle.
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In early May 2024, President Biden awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom to 19 people including women profiled in Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America. The Presidential Medal of Freedom is the nation’s highest civilian honor; it is presented to individuals who have made exemplary contributions to the prosperity, values, or security of the United States, world peace, or other significant societal, public, or private endeavors.
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