Oscar Milestones – Kalon Women column April 2019
Many of us recently spent an evening enjoying the 2019 – 91st Oscars. It may seem surprising that significant firsts for women are still occurring – but they are!
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2019 Inductees into the National Women’s Hall of Fame – April 2019 ENewsletter
The National Women’s Hall of Fame announced its 2019 Inductees in early March. They include AIDS researcher Flossie Wong-Staal, who was profiled in our July 2017 ENewsletter, Jane Fonda and Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor. Let’s discover more about Jane Fonda and Justice Sonia Sotomayor.
The winner of two Academy Awards, actress, political activist, fitness guru, writer and producer Jane Fonda received her first Oscar nomination for the movie They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
What We Wouldn’t Have Without Women – Kalon Women column March 2019
The statement of a friend triggered the thought – what wouldn’t we have without women? We wouldn’t have iPhones, United Way, tuberculosis tests, the drug to effectively treat childhood leukemia, the Apgar score, fruits and vegetables from California, Kevlar, affordable ice cream, commercial maternity clothes, real D/3D for 3D movies, and much more.
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Entrepreneurs – March 2019 ENewsletter
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.
Women Poets and Lyricists in History – Kalon Women column February 2019
Over the course of our lives, we learn poems, songs, and hymns without thinking about the authorship or wondering about which ones were written by women. Mary Had a Little Lamb, Over the River and Through the Wood, Battle Hymn of the Republic, America the Beautiful, and many others that are famous and well-loved hymns were written by women.
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Judges – February 2019 ENewsletter
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.
