8 Inspiring Women From History

[Litterati]

Wow - had not heard of many of these women's achievements! Awesome share!

[mon]

Here, here!

[mon]

Or hear , hear?

[Catty1]

Or hear , hear?

Yup!

[Karen]

How does this include an eugenecist (Margaret Sanger) instead of - if you want to laud the invention of birth control, one of the other women scientists involved? Of women who championed the cause?

And why is my hometown favorite, Clara Barton, for example, not on the list?? She worked battlefields as a nurse, started schools, education system, founded the American Red Cross ...

And sure Katherine Hepburn was a remarkable woman. but "inspiring?" Because she wore pants?

[Catty1]

How does this include an eugenecist (Margaret Sanger) instead of - if you want to laud the invention of birth control, one of the other women scientists involved? Of women who championed the cause?

And why is my hometown favorite, Clara Barton, for example, not on the list?? She worked battlefields as a nurse, started schools, education system, founded the American Red Cross ...

And sure Katherine Hepburn was a remarkable woman. but "inspiring?" Because she wore pants?

Eugenics weren't all that unfashionable then. Anyone can make a mistake. Katherine Hepburn's mother worked with Margaret in the birth control campaign as well.

Here's a longer list that includes Clara Barton: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activi...en/notable.htm

As for Hepburn...trousers for women weren't exactly all the rage in her time.

[Karen]

Eugenics weren't all that unfashionable then. Anyone can make a mistake. Katherine Hepburn's mother worked with Margaret in the birth control campaign as well.

Here's a longer list that includes Clara Barton: http://teacher.scholastic.com/activi...en/notable.htm

As for Hepburn...trousers for women weren't exactly all the rage in her time.

But that does not mean eugenics was a good thing, just because it was "fashionable" = slavery used to be "fashionable," too!

And there were women wearing trousers long before Katherine Hepburn, they just didn't get the fame she did! Even as far back as http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_Smith_Miller, who popularized what became known as "bloomers" - loose-fitting pants that were gathered at the ankle, before Amelia Bloomer ended up giving them her name. Now ""bloomers" has come to have a different meaning, but they were indeed long pants then!