Entries Published On October, 2020
Inspiring Thursday: Marta Lempart
“This is not another political fight, it’s war in the defense of modern civilization and its major values.” Marta Lempart is a Polish political activist, journalist, lawyer, and the initiator and one of the leaders of the Ogólnopolskiego Strajku Kobiet (National Women’s Strike). Marta Lempart was born in Poland, graduated from Law, and soon after …
Inspiring Thursday: Gloria Steinem
“A feminist is anyone who recognizes the equality and full humanity of women and men.” Gloria Steinem was born in 1934, in Toledo, Ohio. Steinem has an extraordinary upbringing as she spent her early years traveling with her parents in a house trailer until she was 11 years old. After the divorce of her parents, …
Inspiring Thursday: Jennifer Doudna & Emmanuelle Charpentier
The first Nobel Prize for Chemistry was awarded in 1901, 119 years after, and for the first time in its history, two women won without having to share the prize with a man. This win is understood as a breaking point for women in science as they were always the second in the innovation and …
Inspiring Thursday: Frances Watkins Harper (1825-1911)
“Now is the time for our women to begin to try to lift up their heads and plant the roots of progress under the hearthstone.” Frances Ellen Watkins Harper was born in 1825 in Baltimore, Maryland to free Black parents, but unfortunately became an orphan at 3 years old. She grew up with her uncle …
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