8 Inspiring Women From History

[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!

[Grace]

Marie Curie was once denied admission to a university because she was a woman.

She went on to become the first woman to be awarded a Nobel Prize, and today remains the only person in history to be awarded two Nobel Prizes in two different fields of science.

Her daughter also went on to win a Nobel Prize.

[Catty1]

Karen, Sanger was the founder of Planned Parenthood. The good this has done is worthy of attention, not the bad which has not survived her.

[Lady's Human]

Founding planned parenthood isn't exactly an accomplishment....

And on that note I think this thread should go away.

It's an extremely poor list, including Katherine Hepburn for her wardrobe choice, including Sanger AT ALL, the person who recorded the Dr. Who theme...

Leaving off Marie Curie, as mentioned above, Jane Goodall, Amelia Earhardt, Clara Barton, Florence Nightingale, there are endless other women who have had a true, positive impact on history and society without dredging up people from the margins and people who were absolute evil, such as Sanger.

[Catty1]

Okay, any more nits that anyone wants to pick?

[smokey the elder]

I think the point was lesser-known women, warts and all.