In 1825 (with a newborn), upon her husband’s death, Rebecca Webb Lukens took over the management of the almost bankrupt Brandywine Iron Works in what is now Coatesville, Pennsylvania. This was the first American company to make a boiler plate and hull plates for steam-powered ships and locomotives; it thereby played a prominent role in the industrial and transportation revolutions of the 19th century.
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Amelia Earhart was able to fly and set records because of the women who came before her who fought for women’s rights and broke barriers of every kind. She broke additional barriers. Women today are able to stand on Amelia Earhart’s shoulders and reach for their own stars, becoming astronauts and commercial airline pilots. For her many accomplishments in advancing the rights and interests of women, Amelia Earhart is one of the over 250 women who have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame.
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Two women who are profiled in our book Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America were 
honored during the recent New Jersey Inventors Hall of Fame Ceremony. This month we are pleased to feature them: Beatrice Hicks, who posthumously received the Advancement of Invention Award, and Shirley Ann Jackson, who received the Trustees Award.
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women who Changed America was listed as the bestselling Nonfiction Paperback this week in the Denver Post!
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The recent announcement that Janet Yellen is President Obama’s choice to chair the Federal Reserve Bank means that, once approved, she will be the first woman ever to hold that position. We have often used the phrase “we stand on their shoulders” as we discuss the women who have come before us and who have done so much. In this instance as well, other women laid the groundwork in the financial industry that enabled Yellen’s appointment. For this month’s enewsletter, we feature two of those pioneers: Sylvia Porter and Muriel Siebert.
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The average life expectancy in 1900 was 45 years of age. By 2000, that number had risen to 78. A significant factor in that increase in average life expectancy was a decrease in infant mortality. Two physicians whose efforts were key are profiled in this month’s enewsletter: Dr. Helen Brooke Taussig and Dr. Virginia Apgar.
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