by Jill Tietjen | Jul 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
As we celebrate the Fourth of July and the birth of our country, we pause to remember some of the women who fought to secure our independence. What women did at this time was not matter-of-fact, comfortable for most people or even “accepted.” Even today, our military is still not fully comfortable with American women in combat on the front lines of wars in which we still engage. In the War against England(the Revolutionary War), some women fought disguised as men. Others fought beside their husbands. Others assumed their husbands’ positions after their deaths in the fighting. In this edition of our newsletter, we profile Margaret Corbin, Mary Ludwig Hays McCauley, and Deborah Sampson.
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by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
Today, women can choose to train for any career in which they are interested. This was not always the case, as many of us know. Gender discrimination in most fields was real and in countless cases, officially sanctioned. Engineering is one of those fields that is still male-dominated, with women representing significantly less than half of the practitioners in the field. In fact, the percentage of women receiving B.S. degrees in the sciences didn’t even reach one percent until 1972. In this month’s enewsletter, we profile two pioneering women engineers: Edith Clarke and Mabel MacFerran Rockwell.
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by Jill Tietjen | Jun 1, 2013 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
Women have been involved in using the Earth’s resources in an environmentally friendly manner for thousands of 
years. This month, we profile four women whose passion was to live and work in harmony with our environment.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2013 | In The News, Newsletters
Two women who are being inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame in October 2013 are profiled – Nancy Pelosi and Emma Willard.
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by Jill Tietjen | May 1, 2013 | In The News, Kalon Women Magazine
It is only recently that physical fitness has become a part of many women’s daily regimen. In face, for many years , it was erroneously believed that active physical labor would harm a woman’s reproductive system! One wonders how the male physicians (and they were only men) came up with that?
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