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Posted by: Ellen Terrell
Produced from 1919 into the 1990s, the Women's Bureau publication "Bulletin" is filled with articles about women working in various industries. Of particular note, a series of issues from the 1940s illustrate women's many contributions to defense industries and the war effort in the Second World War.
Posted in: Business, Favorites From the Fifth Floor, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
There has hardly been another plant collector as intrepid as Ynes Mexia, a Mexican American former rancher and social worker who collected more than 145,000 specimens despite starting her pioneering botanical career only in her mid-50s.
Posted in: Botany, Hispanic American History, Science, Women's History
Posted by: Ellen Terrell
National Ice Cream Day gives us the opportunity to highlight two people whose contributions are important in bringing us this sweet treat.
Posted in: African American History, Business, Inventions, Women's History
Posted by: Natalie Burclaff
This week we commemorate Equal Pay Day, which represents the extra number of days beyond a year that the average woman needs to work to earn the same amount a man earns in one year for equal work, by taking a look at sources that examine the pay gap.
Posted in: Labor, Women's History
Posted by: Jennifer Harbster
Explore the life and work of naturalist, conservationist, and trailblazer Gloria Hollister Anable (1900-1988) who, in the 1930s, established records for the deepest ocean dives completed by a woman!
Posted in: Women's History