Archive for womens issues
October 17, 2009
· Filed under book talk, charity/activism, domestic violence, talk radio, womens issues · Tagged Blog Talk Radio, Diane Tegarden, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence awareness month
OCTOBER is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month
Jeanine Swatton, radio show host of “Swatton Live – Preventing Abuse Against Women” will interview Diane Tegarden about her experience of being a woman in an abusive marriage
on Wednesday 10/21 at 6pm PST/7pm MST/8pm CST/9pm EST.
The call in telephone number is (347) 994-3550.
The link to the show is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SwattonLive
We’ll also be discussing how to escape a battering spouse, join us so you can pass on this vital information to other women who may need it.
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Please pass this notice on to anyone who you think may need the information.
October 14, 2009
· Filed under book talk, domestic violence, talk radio, womens issues · Tagged Blog Talk Radio, Diane Tegarden, domestic abuse, domestic violence, domestic violence awareness month, Marsha Dean Walker, October
OCTOBER is National Domestic Violence Awareness Month!
Jeanine Swatton, radio show host of “Swatton Live – Preventing Abuse Against Women” will interview Diane Tegarden about her experience of being a woman in an abusive marriage
on Wednesday 10/21
at 6pm PST/7pm MST/8pm CST/9pm EST.
The call in telephone number is (347) 994-3550.
The link to the show is http://www.blogtalkradio.com/SwattonLive
We’ll also be discussing how to escape a battering spouse, join us so you can pass on this vital information to other women who may need it.
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Marsha Walker, Author and Publisher will interview Diane Tegarden on her radio show “Together Again” about the release of Diane’s groundbreaking sci-fi novel “Anti-Vigilante and The Rips in Time”!
On Thursday October 22nd at 10am PST/11am MST/12 noon CST/1pm EST
CALL IN# (347) 994-1510
LINK: http://www.blogtalkradio.com/LWL-Radio
Join us for a rousing stroll through the world of publishing! ************************************************************************************************** May You Never Thirst!
March 31, 2009
· Filed under Women's History, womens issues · Tagged Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics, Kennedy, Massachusetts, Notre Dame, Presidential Medal of Freedom, Special Olymics
It is with a heavy heart that I conclude my series on Women’s History Month. You may ask “Why?”
Because of the complete and total lack of interest, media attention, and involvement on the part of women to help ourselves. Women will go to bat for any ”minority” (who aren’t really minorities anymore but who simply have complained so long and loud that everyone has a knee jerk reaction to their slightest whine of complaint), in fact, they will fight for the rights of any group, except their own.
Sad. Women are still paid less than men, still have little rights over their own bodies, still have less rights under the law than do some minorities, and still live in a world of their own, where only their own tiny family is all they seem to care about. The big picture is being ignored and glossed over.
Society has taught us we don’t matter unless we defend the rights of any group that is underprivileged, as long as it’s not women!
With that said, I bring you the last entry in my attempt to credit brilliant women who have been ignored by history books.
************Eunice Kennedy Shriver, founder of the Special Olympics
Eunice Kennedy was born in Brookline, Massachusetts, on July 10, 1921, the fifth of Rose and Joseph Kennedy’s nine children and their third daughter.
She attended the Convent of the Sacred Heart School in Noroton, Connecticut, and Manhattanville College, and received a B.S. degree in sociology from Stanford University in 1943.
Mrs. Shriver has been recognized throughout the world for her leadership on behalf of persons with intellectual disabilities, and has received numerous honors and awards, including: the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the Legion of Honor, the Prix de la Couronne Francaise, the Mary Lasker Award, the Philip Murray-William Green Award (presented to Eunice and Sargent Shriver by the AFL-CIO), the Association of Art Museum Directors Humanitarian Award, the National Recreation and Park Association National Volunteer Service Award, the Laetare Medal of the University of Notre Dame and the Order of the Smile of Polish Children.
Source Cited: http://www.jfklibrary.org/Historical+Resources/Biographies+and+Profiles/Biographies/Eunice+Kennedy+Shriver.htm
March 29, 2009
· Filed under Women artists, Women's History, womens issues · Tagged actress, director, Ida Lupino, Women artists
Ida Lupino’s search for greater creative control after acting in movies from the 1940-50s, led her to founding a production company with her husband. Serving as producer and director for films she was known to produce movies with controversial content.
Source Cited: http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue05/reviews/idalupino.htm
March 27, 2009
· Filed under Native Americans, Women's History, environment, politics, women in politics, womens issues · Tagged activist, Anishinaabe, environmental, Native American, United Nations, Winona LaDuke, women in politics, women’s issues
Winona LaDuke (Anishinaabe) is an internationally respected Native American and environmental activist. She began speaking about these issues at an early age, addressing the United Nations at the age of 18, and continues to devote herself to Native and environmental concerns, as well as political and women’s issues. LaDuke also served as Ralph Nader’s vice-presidential running mate on the Green Party ticket in the 1996 and 2000 presidential elections.
Source Cited: http://www.speakoutnow.org/userdata_display.php?modin=50&uid=79
Winona LaDuke, Anishinaabe, Native American, environmental, activist, United Nations, women’s issues, women in politics,
March 23, 2009
· Filed under Women's History, womens issues · Tagged abolition, activist, human rights, Martha Coffin Pelham Wright, Quaker, slavery
Martha Coffin Pelham Wright’s life as an activist was influenced by her Nantucket Quaker heritage. With a strong female role model in her mother, Anna Folger Coffin, and the Quaker tenets of individualism, pacifism, equality of the sexes, and opposition to slavery, young Martha was well prepared for her future role as an abolitionist and suffragist.
Source Cited: http://www.greatwomen.org/women.php?action=viewone&id=224
March 22, 2009
· Filed under Women's History, women in politics, womens issues · Tagged China, Communists, Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Kuomintang, Soong Ching-Ling, the Mother of China
Soong Ching-Ling, Peoples’ Republic of China; Honorary President, (1893-1981) (Madame Sun Yat-Sen) Leader of the Women’s Department of the Kuomintang
Soong Ching-Ling was born in Shanghai on the 27th of January in 1893 to well-educated, Christian parents. Before marrying Dr. Sun Yat-sen, Ching-ling traveled to the United States for her education; she and her three sisters became the first Chinese girls to be educated in the states. At the age of eighteen, Ching-ling began to speak out against the conditions of women in her country in a non-violent manner which expressed her ideals of Liberty and Equality.
For the next seven decades, Soong Ching-ling became an active character within both the political and social arenas of Chinese culture. She came to be known as “the Mother of China” by both the main political parties, the Kuomintang and the Communists.
Source Cited:http://people.brandeis.edu/~dwilliam/profiles/ching-ling.htm
March 20, 2009
· Filed under Women's History, women inventors, womens issues · Tagged bridges, Mary Jane Montgomery, Scientific American, warships, women inventors
Mary Jane Montgomery was cited in Scientific American in 1903 as a “professional woman inventor.” The article mentioned her work on warships and locomotive wheels, but she also was joint holder of a patent for a bridge design, and patented a machine for punching corrugated metal sheets.
Source cited: http://www.uah.edu/colleges/liberal/womensstudies/inventor.html
March 18, 2009
· Filed under Women's History, politics, women in politics, womens issues · Tagged firsts, Gro Harlem Brundtland, Norway, Prime Minister, WHO, women in politics, World Health Organization
Norway’s first woman prime minister, Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, a physician, was Prime Minister of Norway 1981, 1986-1989, and 1990-1996. She has worked on health and environment issues internationally, and since 1998 has been the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO).
http://womenshistory.about.com/od/brundtland/Gro_Harlem_Brundtland.htm
