March is Women's History Month!!!!

[StrongButch]

Ada Deer-First member of Monominee Tribe to graduate from University of Wisconsin 1957-Recieve a Masters Degree 1961-First woman to serve as a chair of Monominee Restoration Committee 1974-Pollitzer award,Ethical Cultural Society,NY 1975-First Native American woman to head Bureau of Indian Affairs 1993-1997-A delegate to United Nations Human Rights Committee-National Womens History honoree-2000

[The_Lady_Snow]

Arlene Violet (R-RI), a former nun, became the first woman elected as a state's attorney general, serving from 1985-87.

[The_Lady_Snow]

Representative Nita Lowey (D-NY) became the first woman to chair the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. She also served as House Minority Whip-at-Large.

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[The_Lady_Snow]

Destruction of Personal Property

The Ms. Foundation for Women is celebrating Women’s History Month with a blog carnival featuring the voices and profiles of women across the country. This Month of Action is generously supported by our friends in Seattle.

By Valerie Deering

I am a survivor of domestic violence.

It started with my family of origin and culminated in one brave act to call law enforcement after I had been thrown down stairs by a man who “loved” me.

During my month-long stay with him, while I was being treated for breast cancer, he said and did many disturbing things to me. Luckily, once the police were called, the situation became a state matter.

Like many women, I began to feel guilty about calling the police because the man became even more abusive and threatened to throw me out if I didn’t recant my story. So I did, on paper.

The man became even more violent. It was as if the paper were a permission slip to treat me as an object, his property.

Finally, I escaped – but only after he made more threats to my safety, causing me to experience an enormous moment of clarity.

Despite the evidence of cuts and bruises and the police testimony, this man was exonerated from domestic violence. However, he had broken a piece of my furniture in his rage.

The final verdict?

Guilty of destruction of personal property.

I’m glad to hear that he was handed some sort of consequence for his violent behavior. But how telling is it that his consequence was for destroying a piece of furniture rather than tossing a woman down the stairs?

Surviving domestic violence taught me that I have power. I just gave it away for so long. Now I use it for good in the world, helping others realize their own power. A year ago, I started a women's foundation for the education, empowerment and rehabilitation of women and girls who have been touched by domestic violence – which is way too many, as you know.

Valerie Deering lives in Overland Park, KS.

[Soon]

Tomorrow is International Women's Day!

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March 8th, 2013

[The_Lady_Snow]

[The_Lady_Snow]

Educational Activist, Global movement influence, Unstoppable,Survivor.

[Kobi]

[Kobi]

This fascinated the crap out of me. There are 9 periods. this is the first:


Antiquity: 10,000 BC to AD 500
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10,000 to 5,000 BCE
In several regions, women, who are the traditional gatherers of foodstuffs, initiate the profound cultural phenomenon of agriculture.

c. 3500 BC
Egyptian women begin brewing beer.

c. 3000 BC
According to legend, the Chinese empress Leizu (original name Xilingshi) invents sericulture (the production of raw silk by using domesticated silkworms).

c. 2300 BC
The Akkadian theologian and writer Enheduanna, daughter of Sargon, is made chief priestess of the gods at Ur and Erech.

c. 1850 BC
Egyptian texts describe contraceptive suppositories made from a mixture of honey and crocodile dung. This is the first known reference to contraceptives.

c. 1750 BC
The Code of Hammurabi, the Babylonian law code, protects a woman's right to hold and inherit property.

c. 1500 BC
Female students attend the Egyptian medical school at Heliopolis. 1472 BC
Hatshepsut begins her rule over Egypt, first as a regent for Thutmose III and later in her own right, with the full titles and regalia of a pharaoh. During her reign she expands commerce on the Red Sea and undertakes an extensive building program.

c. 1450 BC
By law and by custom, Mesopotamian women are controlled first by their fathers, then by their husbands and fathers-in-law, and finally by their sons.

843 BC
Athaliah becomes queen of Judah. Her seven-year reign is bloody, as she tries to murder everyone who might oppose her.

776 BC
Women are barred as both competitors and spectators at the first recorded Olympic Games.

c. 600 BC

On the island of Lesbos, Sappho writes poetry and teaches young women poetry, music, and the social graces.

c. 600 BC
In Sparta, girls are trained in athletics, including running, javelin, and discus, so that they will become strong and healthy mothers.

c. 600 BC
Ambapali, a wealthy Indian courtesan, gives her mango groves to the Buddha. She becomes his disciple and reaches the status of arhat (a perfected person).

480 BC
Artemisia I commands five ships in the Battle of Salamis.

c. 450 BC
In Athens, Aspasia opens a salon for upper-class women. There she teaches rhetoric and philosophy.

380 BC
Greek women have no independent status in society; although they may own slaves, they may not make transactions worth more than one medimnos of barley.

c. 351 BC
Artemisia II completes construction of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus, a great tomb for her husband, Mausolus. It becomes one of the Seven Wonders of the World.

c. 300 BC
Athenian philosopher Hipparchia studies with the Cynic Crates of Thebes. She forces her parents to let her marry him and boasts of spending her life on education rather than weaving.

c. 195 BC
Gaohou seizes power from her son to become the first woman ruler of China.

195 BC
Roman women successfully insist on the repeal of the Oppian law, a sumptuary tax passed in 215 that forbids them to wear multicoloured garments or more than half an ounce of gold.

51 BC
Cleopatra becomes queen of Egypt.

47 BC
In Sri Lanka, Queen Anula takes the throne. Her reign ends in 42 BC with her resignation.

AD 39
Two sisters, Trung Trac and Trung Nhi, lead the first Vietnamese revolt against Chinese rule. Despite early successes, the revolt eventually fails.

53
In the Korean kingdom of Koguryo, the queen mother serves as successful regent for her son King T'aejo.

60
Queen Boudicca of the Iceni rallies British tribes in an unsuccessful but hard-fought and bloody revolt against Roman annexation.

c. 65
Ethiopian women and men fight in Rome as gladiators. Under the emperors Nero and Domitian, women captives—especially German ones—frequently fight in the arena.

107
Dowager empress Deng holds the real power in China behind the boy-emperor An'di.

c. 115
Chinese poet and historian Ban Zhao dies after a long and renowned career. 239
Queen Himiko of Yamatai, the first known ruler of Japan, establishes diplomatic relations with China.

248
Vietnamese patriot Trieu Au, with an army of 1,000, leads a revolt against the Chinese. She commits suicide after the revolt fails.

269
Zenobia of Palmyra challenges Roman rule by conquering Egypt and much of Asia Minor. She and her son are captured three years later by the Roman emperor Aurelian.

326
According to legend, Helena, mother of Roman Emperor Constantine I, claims to have found the sites of the Ascension and the Holy Sepulchre and establishes churches on those sites. Later legend says she also found the Holy Cross.

350
Chinese calligrapher Wei Shuo dies. She was the teacher of Wang Xizhi, the most celebrated of Chinese calligraphers.

c. 385
Roman St. Paula founds monasteries for men and women in Bethlehem. Her daughter Eustochium becomes head of the women's community upon Paula's death in 404.

c. 399
St. Fabiola, founder of the first public hospital in the Latin West in Rome, dies.

415
Egyptian scholar and teacher Hypatia, the most prominent Alexandrian pagan, is murdered by a fanatical mob of Christians.

431
The Council of Ephesus recognizes Mary as the “Mother of God,” resulting in the spread westward from Byzantium of the cult of the Virgin.

493
Princess Clotilda of Burgundy marries Clovis I, king of the Franks. She converts him to Christianity.

http://www.britannica.com/women/time...section=249211

Tomorrow....medieval times 501-1500

[little_ms_sunshyne]

I have a story to share because dammit I want to tell someone...

Every day I allow my 5th grade class to run a "news show". It includes a weather report, local news report, world news, and natural disaster updates (I am a science teacher after all). For Women's history month I gave my reporters the task of reporting on Women in history. They reported on Maya Angelou, Jane Austin, Sally Ride, Rosa Parks, etc. My students enjoyed hearing the daily reports. Yesterday, the last day of school before Spring Break, we are just about ready to start the news when I get an email that I have no choice but to respond to right away. I tell them to begin the news while I send the email and that I would be listening. I am completely caught up in this email when I here the voice of one of my reporters say "Ms. Copeland is my Science teacher and she is an influential women of today." My jaw drops and I can feel myself get choked up. I held it together, but sat there and listened as my student read a report she wrote on my life. You really never know who you are influencing. My heart was happy all day.

[Kobi]

Jóhanna Sigurðardóttir became Iceland's first female Prime Minister and the world's first openly lesbian head of government on 1 February 2009.

Jóhanna is a social democrat and Iceland's longest-serving member of Parliament. In the 1990s, when she lost a bid to head the Social Democratic Party, she raised her fist and declared "Minn tími mun koma!" ("My time will come!"), a phrase that became a popular Icelandic expression. In 2009, Forbes listed her among the 100 Most Powerful Women in the world. In September 2012, Jóhanna announced she would not seek re-election and would instead retire from politics.

In 2010, after her government banned strip clubs, paying for nudity in restaurants, and other means of employers profiting from employees' nudity, Jóhanna said "The Nordic countries are leading the way on women's equality, recognizing women as equal citizens rather than commodities for sale." After the decision was made she was hailed by her fellow feminists with Julie Bindel claiming Iceland has become the most feminist country in the world.

[Kobi]

c. 594
Japanese Empress Suiko encourages the spread of Buddhism and orders the construction of Buddhist temples.

600
Women in England may be publicly punished as “scolds,” a practice that will continue for 1,000 years.

632
Queen Sondok becomes the ruler of the Korean kingdom of Silla. During her reign, she fights the kingdom of Paekche, sends students to China for education, and constructs Buddhist temples.

656
'A'ishah, widow of Muhammad, rebels against the caliph 'Ali in the Battle of the Camel at Basra.

c. 659
Indian Queen Vidya writes Sanskrit poetry.

721
According to legend, Princess Libuše and her husband, Premysl, found the city of Prague.

787
The second Council of Nicaea is convened by Byzantine ruler Irene to settle the question of worshipping icons. The bishops rule in favour of icon worship.

801
Charlemagne outlaws prostitution.

c. 900
The practice of binding the feet of aristocratic women becomes popular in the Chinese court.

c. 950
An anonymous Norwegian woman writes Wise Women's Prophesy, a history of the world, including prophecies for the future.

988
Vladimir I of Russia converts Russia to Christianity and marries Anne, sister of Byzantine Emperor Basil II. With this act, Byzantine culture is introduced to Russia and the Crimea.

c. 1010
Japanese author Murasaki Shikibu finishes the Genji monogatari (The Tale of Genji), a masterpiece of Japanese literature.

c. 1070
Englishwomen embroider the Bayeux Tapestry, using wool thread on linen to record the events of the Norman Conquest.

c. 1118
In France, Héloïse begins her doomed romance with Peter Abelard. The relationship outrages her family, and Héloïse flees to a convent in Argenteuil, where she is later made prioress.

1147
Eleanor of Aquitaine accompanies her husband, French King Louis VII, on the Second Crusade. After their marriage collapses in 1152, she marries the future King Henry II of England.

1152
Abbess Hildegard of Bingen completes Scivias, a recollection of her visions that had been confirmed as authentic by a committee of theologians.

c. 1160
Frau Ava of Melk is one of Germany's first female poets.

1220
At the University of Paris, women are banned from practicing medicine.

1319
Chinese calligrapher and painter Guan Daosheng dies after a career that included a number of commissions for Emperor Renzong.

1350
The presence of more than 3,000 nuns in England reflects the flourishing of convents and religious orders for women in the Middle Ages.

1351
England's Treason Act considers any murder that subverts the usual hierarchies, such as a servant killing his master or a wife killing her husband, to be petty treason.

1384
Jadwiga is crowned “king” of Poland. Two years later she marries Grand Duke Jogaila of Lithuania, thus uniting the kingdoms.

1390
London licensing law for doctors requires a university education, thus barring women from the profession.

1390
At the University of Bologna, Dorotea Bocchi takes the chair of medicine, formerly held by her father.

1397
Under the Kalmar Union, Denmark, Sweden, and Norway are united under Queen Margaret I as their sole monarch.

1405
Italian-born French scholar Christine de Pisan writes The Book of the City of Ladies, in praise of women and in defense of their virtues.

1406
In Korea plans are made for training women doctors to serve female patients who refuse to be treated by male doctors.

1429
Joan of Arc, supported by Queen Yolande, begins her military and religious campaign against the English. At the Battle of Orléans she leads the French army to victory.

c. 1436
The mystic Margery Kempe finishes dictating her autobiography, The Boke of Margery Kempe, to two clerks. The book is one of the earliest English autobiographies.

1448
Margaret of Anjou, the wife of Henry VI of England, establishes Queens' College, Cambridge.

1455
Female English silk manufacturers petition the crown to stop competition from Lombard silk manufacturers.

c. 1486
Johann Sprenger and Heinrich Kraemer publish Malleus maleficarum (“Hammer of Witches”), arguing that women, as the weaker sex, are more likely to be witches.

1492
Queen Isabella I of Spain finances Christopher Columbus's voyage of exploration to the East Indies. Columbus instead finds the West Indies.
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Next up: Early modern period: 1501 to 1800

[Dude]

pride parade picture <3
Barbara Roberts I delivered packages to this woman after her term as governor. Always sweet as could be , she sent me off with coffee and a muffin, more times than I could count. She answered the door in her robe and slippers,
I had no idea she was writing a book about grief at the time, which is apparently a must read. She is still doing a lot of good things , 20 years later.

A descendant of Oregon Trail pioneers and a fourth generation Oregonian, former Gov. Barbara K. Roberts has carried forth the tradition of trailblazing and innovation. Roberts began her years of public service as an advocate for disabled children as she fought for the educational rights of her autistic son. While Roberts was governor (1991-1995), Oregon was recognized by Financial World Magazine as the seventh best-managed state in the nation. Roberts was recognized as a strong advocate for environmental management, a national leader for human and civil rights, and among the nation's foremost reinventors of effective government during her governorship.

While Roberts was governor, Oregon won the prestigious "Innovations in Government Award" from the Ford Foundation and the Kennedy School of Government in recognition of the nationally acclaimed Oregon Benchmarks Program. Roberts used the Benchmarks measurable goals as an integral part of her budgeting and planning efforts while governor.

Before being elected governor, Roberts was elected Oregon's Secretary of State (1985-1991) as well as serving as an elected member of the Oregon House of Representatives (1981-1985). Roberts also has served as a county commissioner, an elected school board member, and an elected community college board member.

Roberts taught for several years at Portland State University’s Hatfield School of Government as an associate director of leadership development, retiring from that position in 2004. Before that, she had a five-year association with the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University. She served as director of the Harvard Program for Senior Executives in State and Local Government, and later as senior fellow to the Women and Public Policy Program. In 2001, The Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University honored Roberts with "The Alumni Public Service Achievement Award."

An active and dynamic public speaker, Roberts focuses on issues of leadership, women in politics, environmental stewardship, and death and grieving. She is a member of the board of trustees of Population Action International in Washington, D.C., and Innovation Partnerships in Portland. Roberts is also a member of the Advisory Councils for the Oregon League of Conservation Voters, Oregon Compassion in Dying, and the Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration. Roberts also serves as the co-chairwoman for the Oregon Public Affairs Network and on the advisory committee for the Robert Straub Library at Western Oregon University. Roberts is a past board member for the Oregon Hospice Association, the Women of the West Museum in Boulder, Colo., and the Human Rights Campaign in Washington, D.C.

One of Roberts’ main focuses since 2001 has been establishing and fundraising for Portland Relief Nursery, a child abuse prevention agency that will serve at-risk, low-income families in Portland’s St. John’s area. As finance chairwoman for the past two years, Roberts helped spearhead fundraising totaling more than $3 million. The center opened in October 2002 and plans to serve more than 100 families annually.

Roberts’ book, Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology: A Guide for Facing Death and Loss was published in 2002. Her book has received numerous accolades from readers and reviewers alike. The book editor for the Salem Statesman Journal, Dan Hayes, selected Roberts’ book as one of the "Top 10 Oregon Books of 2002." Hayes noted, "This book offers the gifts of comfort, compassion, wisdom, and hope. No mater what your beliefs, this book has comfort and wisdom for you."

In 2002, Roberts received the "Children’s Cancer Association Award" for her book. Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology has become a favorite among hospices, often offered to hospice families, and is now used by university classes on death and dying. Her book is now in its third printing. In 2004 Death Without Denial, Grief Without Apology was published in Japanese by President Sha Publishers of Tokyo.

Presently, Roberts is working on her autobiography, which focuses on her years as governor and her unique trailblazing role as the first woman elected Governor of Oregon.

Roberts was married to Oregon State Sen. Frank Roberts, who died in 1993. She has two adult sons, Mike and Mark Sanders.

[The_Lady_Snow]

Congresswoman, recipient of Profile in Courage Award, Gun Control Advocate, Survivor.

[Laidbackgrly]

Amelia Earhart
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Amelia Earhart

Amelia Earhart, c. 1935
Born July 24, 1897
Atchison, Kansas, U.S.
Disappeared July 2, 1937 (aged 39)
Pacific Ocean, en route to Howland Island
Status Declared dead in absentia
January 5, 1939 (aged 41)
Nationality American
Known for First woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean and setting many aviation records.
Spouse(s) George P. Putnam
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Amelia Mary Earhart (/ˈɛərhɑrt/ AIR-hart; July 24, 1897 – disappeared July 2, 1937) was an American aviation pioneer and author.[1][N 1] Earhart was the first female pilot to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean.[3][N 2] She received the U.S. Distinguished Flying Cross for this record.[5] She set many other records,[2] wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots.[6] Earhart joined the faculty of the Purdue University aviation department in 1935 as a visiting faculty member to counsel women on careers and help inspire others with her love for aviation.""" She was also a member of the National Woman's Party, and an early supporter of the Equal Rights Amendment.[7][8]"""

During an attempt to make a circumnavigational flight of the globe in 1937 in a Purdue-funded Lockheed Model 10 Electra, Earhart disappeared over the central Pacific Ocean near Howland Island. Fascination with her life, career and disappearance continues to this day.[N 3]
Contents

1 Early life
2 Aviation career and marriage
3 1932 transatlantic solo flight
4 Move to California
5 1937 world flight
6 Theories on Earhart's disappearance
7 Legacy
8 Popular culture
9 Records and achievements
10 Books by Earhart
11 See also
12 References
13 External links

Early life
Childhood
Amelia Earhart as a child

Amelia Mary Earhart, daughter of German American Samuel "Edwin" Stanton Earhart (born March 28, 1867) and Amelia "Amy" Otis Earhart (1869–1962),[10] was born in Atchison, Kansas, in the home of her maternal grandfather, Alfred Gideon Otis (1827–1912), a former federal judge, president of the Atchison Savings Bank and a leading citizen in the town. Amelia was the second child of the marriage, after an infant stillborn in August 1896.[11] Alfred Otis had not initially favored the marriage and was not satisfied with Edwin's progress as a lawyer.[12]

Earhart was named, according to family custom, after her two grandmothers (Amelia Josephine Harres and Mary Wells Patton).[11] From an early age Earhart, nicknamed "Meeley" (sometimes "Millie") was the ringleader while younger sister (two years her junior), Grace Muriel Earhart (1899–1998), nicknamed "Pidge," acted the dutiful follower.[13] Both girls continued to answer to their childhood nicknames well into adulthood.[11] Their upbringing was unconventional since Amy Earhart did not believe in molding her children into "nice little girls."[14] Meanwhile their maternal grandmother disapproved of the "bloomers" worn by Amy's children and although Earhart liked the freedom they provided, she was aware other girls in the neighborhood did not wear them.
Early influence

A spirit of adventure seemed to abide in the Earhart children with the pair setting off daily to explore their neighborhood.[N 4] As a child, Earhart spent long hours playing with Pidge, climbing trees, hunting rats with a rifle and "belly-slamming" her sled downhill. Although this love of the outdoors and "rough-and-tumble" play was common to many youngsters, some biographers have characterized the young Earhart as a tomboy.[16] The girls kept "worms, moths, katydids and a tree toad"[17] in a growing collection gathered in their outings. In 1904, with the help of her uncle, she cobbled together a home-made ramp fashioned after a roller coaster she had seen on a trip to St. Louis and secured the ramp to the roof of the family toolshed. Earhart's well-documented first flight ended dramatically. She emerged from the broken wooden box that had served as a sled with a bruised lip, torn dress and a "sensation of exhilaration." She exclaimed, "Oh, Pidge, it's just like flying!"[12]

Although there had been some missteps in his career up to that point, in 1907 Edwin Earhart's job as a claims officer for the Rock Island Railroad led to a transfer to Des Moines, Iowa. The next year, at the age of 10,[18] Earhart saw her first aircraft at the Iowa State Fair in Des Moines.[19][20] Her father tried to interest her and her sister in taking a flight. One look at the rickety old "flivver" was enough for Earhart, who promptly asked if they could go back to the merry-go-round.[21] She later described the biplane as "a thing of rusty wire and wood and not at all interesting."[22]
Education

The two sisters, Amelia and Muriel (she went by her middle name from her teens on), remained with their grandparents in Atchison, while their parents moved into new, smaller quarters in Des Moines. During this period, Earhart received a form of home-schooling together with her sister, from her mother and a governess. She later recounted that she was "exceedingly fond of reading"[23] and spent countless hours in the large family library. In 1909, when the family was finally reunited in Des Moines, the Earhart children were enrolled in public school for the first time with Amelia Earhart entering the seventh grade at the age of 12 years.
Family fortunes

While the family's finances seemingly improved with the acquisition of a new house and even the hiring of two servants, it soon became apparent Edwin was an alcoholic. Five years later (in 1914), he was forced to retire and although he attempted to rehabilitate himself through treatment, he was never reinstated at the Rock Island Railroad. At about this time, Earhart's grandmother Amelia Otis died suddenly, leaving a substantial estate that placed her daughter's share in trust, fearing that Edwin's drinking would drain the funds. The Otis house, and all of its contents, was auctioned; Earhart was heartbroken and later described it as the end of her childhood.[24]

In 1915, after a long search, Earhart's father found work as a clerk at the Great Northern Railway in St. Paul, Minnesota, where Earhart entered Central High School as a junior. Edwin applied for a transfer to Springfield, Missouri, in 1915 but the current claims officer reconsidered his retirement and demanded his job back, leaving the elder Earhart with nowhere to go. Facing another calamitous move, Amy Earhart took her children to Chicago where they lived with friends. Earhart made an unusual condition in the choice of her next schooling; she canvassed nearby high schools in Chicago to find the best science program. She rejected the high school nearest her home when she complained that the chemistry lab was "just like a kitchen sink."[25] She eventually was enrolled in Hyde Park High School but spent a miserable semester where a yearbook caption captured the essence of her unhappiness, "A.E. – the girl in brown who walks alone."[26]

Earhart graduated from Hyde Park High School in 1916.[27] Throughout her troubled childhood, she had continued to aspire to a future career; she kept a scrapbook of newspaper clippings about successful women in predominantly male-oriented fields, including film direction and production, law, advertising, management and mechanical engineering.[18] She began junior college at Ogontz School in Rydal, Pennsylvania but did not complete her program.[28][N 5]

During Christmas vacation in 1917, Earhart visited her sister in Toronto. World War I had been raging and Earhart saw the returning wounded soldiers. After receiving training as a nurse's aide from the Red Cross, she began work with the Volunteer Aid Detachment at Spadina Military Hospital. Her duties included preparing food in the kitchen for patients with special diets and handing out prescribed medication in the hospital's dispensary.[29]
1918 Spanish flu pandemic

When the 1918 Spanish flu pandemic reached Toronto, Earhart was engaged in arduous nursing duties including night shifts at the Spadina Military Hospital.[30][31] She became a patient herself, suffering from pneumonia and maxillary sinusitis.[30] She was hospitalized in early November 1918 owing to pneumonia and discharged in December 1918, about two months after the illness had started.[30] Her sinus-related symptoms were pain and pressure around one eye and copious mucus drainage via the nostrils and throat.[32] In the hospital, in the pre-antibiotic era, she had painful minor operations to wash out the affected maxillary sinus,[30][31][32] but these procedures were not successful and Earhart subsequently suffered from worsening headache attacks. Her convalescence lasted nearly a year, which she spent at her sister's home in Northampton, Massachusetts.[31] She passed the time by reading poetry, learning to play the banjo and studying mechanics.[30] Chronic sinusitis was to significantly affect Earhart's flying and activities in later life,[32] and sometimes even on the airfield she was forced to wear a bandage on her cheek to cover a small drainage tube.[33]
Early flying experiences

At about that time, with a young woman friend, Earhart visited an air fair held in conjunction with the Canadian National Exposition in Toronto. One of the highlights of the day was a flying exhibition put on by a World War I "ace."[34] The pilot overhead spotted Earhart and her friend, who were watching from an isolated clearing and dived at them. "I am sure he said to himself, 'Watch me make them scamper,'" she said. Earhart stood her ground as the aircraft came close. "I did not understand it at the time," she said, "but I believe that little red airplane said something to me as it swished by."[35]

By 1919 Earhart prepared to enter Smith College but changed her mind and enrolled at Columbia University signing up for a course in medical studies among other programs.[36] She quit a year later to be with her parents who had reunited in California.
L–R: Neta Snook and Amelia Earhart in front of Earhart's Kinner Airster, c. 1921

In Long Beach, on December 28, 1920, Earhart and her father visited an airfield where Frank Hawks (who later gained fame as an air racer) gave her a ride that would forever change Earhart's life. "By the time I had got two or three hundred feet off the ground," she said, "I knew I had to fly."[37] After that 10-minute flight (that cost her father $10), she immediately became determined to learn to fly. Working at a variety of jobs, including photographer, truck driver, and stenographer at the local telephone company, she managed to save $1,000 for flying lessons. Earhart had her first lessons, beginning on January 3, 1921, at Kinner Field near Long Beach, but to reach the airfield Earhart took a bus to the end of the line, then walked four miles (6 km). Earhart's mother also provided part of the $1,000 "stake" against her "better judgement."[38] Her teacher was Anita "Neta" Snook, a pioneer female aviator who used a surplus Curtiss JN-4 "Canuck" for training. Earhart arrived with her father and a singular request, "I want to fly. Will you teach me?"[39]

Earhart's commitment to flying required her to accept the frequently hard work and rudimentary conditions that accompanied early aviation training. She chose a leather jacket, but aware that other aviators would be judging her, she slept in it for three nights to give the jacket a "worn" look. To complete her image transformation, she also cropped her hair short in the style of other female flyers.[40] Six months later, Earhart purchased a secondhand bright yellow Kinner Airster biplane which she nicknamed "The Canary." On October 22, 1922, Earhart flew the Airster to an altitude of 14,000 feet (4,300 m), setting a world record for female pilots. On May 15, 1923, Earhart became the 16th woman to be issued a pilot's license (#6017)[41] by t

[CherylNYC]

Originally Posted by The_Lady_Snow

Congresswoman, recipient of Profile in Courage Award, Gun Control Advocate, Survivor.

Giffords was also an avid motorcyclist before she survived her assassination attempt.

[Zimmeh]

I am watching a movie calked, "Beyond Belief". It is based on the true story of Susan Retik and Patricia Quigley, who both lost their husbands on September 11th, 2001.

Zimmeh

[Soon]

http://www.quotaproject.org/

Women still constitute only 20.4% of the members of parliaments around the world. In what way can quotas contribute to the political empowerment of women?