Great Women In History

Rosalind Franklin knew she wanted to be a scientist at the age of 15. Enrolling in college, despite her father’s protests, she eventually received her doctorate in chemistry. She spent three years studying X-ray techniques, returning to England to lead a research team to study the structure of DNA... all at a time when women weren’t even allowed to eat in her college’s cafeteria.

Heading up another DNA research team was Maurice Wilkins, who ultimately betrayed Franklin when he showed scientists, (James Watson and Francis Crick), Franklin’s ground-breaking X-ray image of DNA, known as Photo 51. Photo 51 enabled Watson, Crick, and Wilkins to determine the structure of DNA.

Franklin went on to study the tobacco mosaic virus and polio, creating the foundation of modern virology, before passing away in 1958 at the age of 38. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins would win the Nobel Prize in 1962., and despite her undeniable contribution, Franklin’s work was barely mentioned.

Valentina Vladimirovna Tereshkova is an engineer, member of the Russian State Duma, and former Soviet cosmonaut. She is known for being the first and youngest woman in space, having flown a solo mission on the Vostok 6 on 16 June 1963. She orbited the Earth 48 times, spent almost three days in space, and remains the only woman to have been on a solo space mission.

Sally Ride

The first American woman and the third woman ever to go to space, flying on the Challenger in 1983, Ride was also the first known LGBTQ+ astronaut. She spent 27 years with her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy (and when President Obama bestowed Ride with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, O'Shaughnessy accepted the award). After leaving NASA, Ride served as director of the California Space Science Institute. She also strove to help women and girls who wanted to study STEM subjects, working with science programs and authoring children's books. She was immortalized as a Barbie in 2019.
 
AshleeLightBringer said:
Sally Ride

The first American woman and the third woman ever to go to space, flying on the Challenger in 1983, Ride was also the first known LGBTQ+ astronaut. She spent 27 years with her partner Tam O'Shaughnessy (and when President Obama bestowed Ride with a posthumous Presidential Medal of Freedom, O'Shaughnessy accepted the award). After leaving NASA, Ride served as director of the California Space Science Institute. She also strove to help women and girls who wanted to study STEM subjects, working with science programs and authoring children's books. She was immortalized as a Barbie in 2019.
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Just out of idiocy, did sally like riding or?
 
Agnes Campbell MacPhail (March 24, 1890 – February 13, 1954)was a Canadian politician and the first woman elected to Canada's House of Commons. (she was an avid progressive and a vital part of the CCF ( a socialist farmers cooperative political party)

She was a tireless advocate for social justice issues, workers rights, pensions for seniors and women's suffrage. She single handedly stopped the inhumane practice of beating prisoners with large coarse leather straps in Canada's notorious Kingston Penitentiary- and founded the Elizabeth Fry Society ( a group dedicated to to human treatment of female prisoners)

An ardent proponent of the Social Gospel, who was an effective journalist in an era where there were few women in such positions.
 
AshleeLightBringer said:
Move along Wayne Kerr. This is a forum for girls, not for stupid boys with no concept what girls are really about.
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on her rags lol

cya later alligator <3 mwuach

the greatest history is that you guys had to copy and paste info from GÒÒGlè lol.
 
HELPMEGETUNBANNED said:
the greatest history is that you guys had to copy and paste info from GÒÒGlè lol.
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If you had actually read the first paragraph at the start of the thread, you would understand.

Mary Wollstonecraft was a renowned women's rights activist who authored A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, 1792, a classic of rationalist feminism that is considered the earliest and most important treatise advocating equality for women.
 
The one woman who crossed the land bridge from Africa to who all of us who have European DNA are related to, she's our Eve.
 
Kathrine Switzer was the first woman to run the Boston Marathon in 1967, a time when women were not allowed to officially run in the race. When the race organizer realized she was running the race with an official bib, he tried to tackle her and rip her bib off. Thankfully, Switzer’s boyfriend shoved the race organizer to the ground and women were soon allowed to officially run the Boston Marathon a few years later.
 
Lavinia Fisher (1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery—a capital offense at the time—not murder. Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
 
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Lavinia Fisher (1793 – February 18, 1820) was an American criminal who, according to urban legends, was the first female serial killer in the United States of America. She was married to John Fisher, and both were convicted of highway robbery—a capital offense at the time—not murder. Charleston, South Carolina, U.S.
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The purpose of this thread is to acknowledge Great Women In History, to show girls how important women have been, how important they themselves are and how important they can be, to encourage and propel girls into fulfilling their dreams. You must really not like girls to try to spoil that concept. What a Wayne!
 
Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author, much better known as Andre Norton. While not of great historical signifcance, she was the first woman to be named Gandalf Grand Master of Fantasy, Science Fiction Writers of America Grand Master and the first to be inducted into the Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. She wrote over 150 novels, the first in 1934 and the last was published in 2005, along with many short stories. In addition to science fiction and fantasy, she also wrote several young adult historical novels.
 
Mildred Dresselhaus - You may not have heard of the scientist and engineer, but Dresselhaus fundamentally changed our lives for the better. One of the first female professors at MIT, her research was at the cutting edge of carbon-based materials. She and her group made huge advances in carbon nanostructures, and the related technology appears in microelectronics, concrete, sports equipment, and elsewhere in our daily lives. She also fought for equality for women and helped create support systems for female scientists in academia. She's now known as the "Queen of Carbon"!
 
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Vicky Phelan exposed the CervicalCheck screening scandal in Ireland, after discovering she was not told she had been given incorrect smear test results. She settled the case, with no admission of liability on the part of the laboratory or health services. But she refused to sign a non-disclosure agreement and it was discovered that hundreds of women could have benefitted from earlier treatment. Twenty women have since died.



Currently, this poor girl has decided to go to palliative care.
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This poor girl died last night. Vicky Whelan, mother, daughter, sister, champion of women, a campaigner who took on the State and won. Rest in Peace.
 
J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling. After graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986, Rowling began working for Amnesty International in London, where she started to write the Harry Potter adventures. In the early 1990s she traveled to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, but, after a brief marriage and the birth of her daughter, she returned to the United Kingdom, settling in Edinburgh. Living on public assistance between stints as a French teacher, she continued to write.The first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released under the name J.K. Rowling. (Her publisher recommended a gender-neutral pen name; born Joanne Rowling, she used J.K., adding the middle name Kathleen.) The book was an immediate success, appealing to both children, who were its intended audience, and adults. Featuring vivid descriptions and an imaginative story line, it followed the adventures of the unlikely hero Harry Potter, a lonely orphan who discovers that he is actually a wizard and enrolls in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book received numerous awards, including the British Book Award.
 
Seli said:
J.K. Rowling, in full Joanne Kathleen Rowling. After graduating from the University of Exeter in 1986, Rowling began working for Amnesty International in London, where she started to write the Harry Potter adventures. In the early 1990s she traveled to Portugal to teach English as a foreign language, but, after a brief marriage and the birth of her daughter, she returned to the United Kingdom, settling in Edinburgh. Living on public assistance between stints as a French teacher, she continued to write.The first book in the Harry Potter series, Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone was released under the name J.K. Rowling. (Her publisher recommended a gender-neutral pen name; born Joanne Rowling, she used J.K., adding the middle name Kathleen.) The book was an immediate success, appealing to both children, who were its intended audience, and adults. Featuring vivid descriptions and an imaginative story line, it followed the adventures of the unlikely hero Harry Potter, a lonely orphan who discovers that he is actually a wizard and enrolls in the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. The book received numerous awards, including the British Book Award.
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Jk Rowling has said some transphobic remarks a couple years ago.
 
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Jk Rowling has said some transphobic remarks a couple years ago.
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It's not because I name her that I approve of all her statements. I just love how she made her way to success by working hard and not giving up on her dream which is also not easy as a single mother in that period. That's all thank you !
 
Seli said:
It's not because I name her that I approve of all her statements. I just love how she made her way to success by working hard and not giving up on her dream which is also not easy as a single mother in that period. That's all thank you !
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Was just letting you know. I still like Harry Potter though but I know some people dislike Harry Potter just because of her comments. Sometimes you are defined by the horrible things you say or do and not the good things.
 
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