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🎙️ This week the "Women Making History" podcast unravels the captivating story of Cleopatra, the last pharaoh of Egypt. Journey through her political genius, cultural impact, and legendary alliances that shaped an era.
🎨 Immerse yourself in her world of art, philosophy, and leadership, and discover how she defied norms to become a beacon of female empowerment.
🎧 Tune in now: https://bit.ly/44ZOdqS Let Cleopatra's extraordinary journey inspire your own! 💪
🌸 Meet Isabella Preston: A True Pioneer in Horticulture! 🌿
This week on the Women Making History Podcast, we are honored to feature Isabella Preston, an extraordinary plant hybridist who revolutionized ornamental crossbreeding. 🌺 With close to 200 beautiful hybrids designed specifically for the Canadian climate, Isabella's contributions to horticulture are truly remarkable. 🌼 Join us as we explore her journey, her passion for gardening, and her invaluable advice to the Royal Canadian Air Force during World War Two. 🌷 Tune in now to discover the captivating story of this history-making woman! 🎙️ Listen Here: https://womenmakinghistory.buzzsprout.com/1920577/13156008-isabella-preston-a-true-pioneer-in-horticulture
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A new episode is up and it's all about Elsie MacGill, the first Canadian woman engineer and aviation pioneer. From breaking barriers to fighting for women's rights, Elsie's journey will inspire and empower you. ✨
🎧 Tune in to the latest episode on all major podcast platforms and be captivated by the stories of remarkable women who shaped our world. Don't miss out! 🎉
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🛩️ In this episode, we shine a spotlight on the trailblazing Elsie MacGill, the first practicing Canadian woman engineer and an icon of resilience and determination. Elsie's journey was filled with groundbreaking achievements that shattered gla...
For , this week's podcast features hit-maker Rosalie Trombley - aka The Girl with the Golden Ear. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3jyth80
The podcast isn't quite a year old, and I have some big news to share! It's been listed No. 10 on the "20 Best Women History Podcasts You Must Follow in 2023"! Check it out here: https://bit.ly/3REUdzj
In honour of Black History Month this week's episode features Mabel Fairbanks - the first African American inducted into the US Figure Skating Hall of Fame. You can listen here: https://bit.ly/3DLPc23
Did you miss any of the top episodes of ? Don't worry! You can catch up here: https://bit.ly/3JN0vs6
had a busy first year! You can listen to all the episodes here: https://bit.ly/3JN0vs6
The lengths that this week's woman making history went to so that Japanese Canadian children could be educated in internment camps was incredible. Find out more in this week's episode here: https://bit.ly/3J8KyyO (photo courtesy City of Richmond Archives)
The 2nd episode of our 2nd season! Featuring Barbara Walters, groundbreaking journalist. https://bit.ly/3ZWNTXR (photo courtesy Lynn Gilbert)
The 2nd episode from the 2nd season, featuring Barbara Walters, a trailblazer in the field of journalism. Listen here: bit.ly/3ZWNTXR (photo courtesy Lynn Gilbert)
podcast had a big first year! You can listen to all the episodes here: https://bit.ly/3JN0vs6
New year -- new episode of ! Thanks to a listener suggestion, this week we feature labour rights activist Delores Huerta. You can listen here: https://bit.ly/3GR9ppu
"Belleville High School Girls' Softball Team - Eastern Ontario Champions - 1926" photograph R2322 taken by the Toronto Panoramic Camera Company. Team posing in front of a grandstand with coaches and child mascot. Transferred from the Presbyterian Church in Canada Archives in January 2023. Found amon...
A local woman has landed herself a rare international hockey opportunity. Jenn Berezowski was one of 20 officials that were chosen to participate in the upcoming IIHF Under-18 Women’s World Hockey Championships in Ostersund, Sweden Jan. 8 to 15. Berezowski grew up in Brighton and said she fell in ...
So cool to see a photo of this! You can find out more about this woman making history in this episode https://womenmakinghistory.buzzsprout.com/1920577/10392530-angelique-du-coudray-innovative-midwife
A fabric womb made by Angélique du Coudray, a French midwife who was commissioned by King Louis XV to reduce infant mortality. From 1760 to 1783, she traveled all over France, visiting poor rural women and sharing her extensive knowledge with them. It is estimated that she trained some 10,000 women.
Du Coudray also invented the first lifesize obstetrical mannequin, for practicing mock births, and published a well-received midwifery textbook
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Women will be making history at the . For the first time, women referees will be among those officiating the men's game. Referees Salima Mukansanga, Yoshimi Yamash*ta, and Stephanie Frappart will also be joined by assistant referees Neuza Back, Karen Diaz Medina, and Kathryn Nesbitt.
Here’s an update on Jackie Jarrell, our most recently featured woman making history -
For the 12th time in her international career, Belleville's Jackie Jarrell has been named to Team Canada's ros...
Meet a Quinte woman making history in this week's podcast! Jackie Jarrell - world class athlete and entrepreneur. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3Tc0B0S
Activate your "little grey cells" this week as you learn about Agatha Christie on . Her books are only outsold by the Bible and Shakespeare! Listen here: https://bit.ly/3BwrSUm
This week's history making woman, Agatha Christie, is the best-selling novelist of all time, author of the world's longest running play, and her works have been translated into over 100 languages worldwide.Listen on 91x FMYou can listen to episode...
When you cook, do you measure in cups and teaspoons? Thank Fannie Farmer - this week's feature. Find out more about this culinary science expert in this podcast episode https://bit.ly/3LtkcXx
This week's history making woman, Fannie Farmer, was a culinary science expert, wrote a cook book that remains a best-seller after over 100 years, and revolutionized cooking for the home cook.Listen on 91x FMYou can listen to episodes of "Women Ma...
A photo of an engineer wiring an early IBM computer, 1958. (Photo by Berenice Abbott).
This week on - Known as the "devil in a dress" Alfonsina Strada was a cycling champion - and the only woman to compete in the Giro d'Italia. Listen here to find out more: https://bit.ly/3vETZ1i
This week on - Nichelle Nichols, who was a singer and dancer before she blazed a trail for black women on the screen and inspired women and minorities to become astronauts. (image courtesy Gage Skidmore) Listen here: https://bit.ly/3JCblSs
is back! This week we feature Josee Kurtz, the first woman to command a Canadian Naval Warship. Listen here: https://bit.ly/3P3SyQW (Image courtesy NATOChannel)
I’m so sorry there hasn’t been any new content on Women Making History lately. I came down with COVID three weeks ago and I’m still recovering and trying to get my voice back. There will be new episodes soon!
In the 1920s, a group of factory workers known as the "Radium Girls" fought for compensation after their work with radioactive paint made them sick. In honor of May Day -- the traditional day on which most countries worldwide hold labor day celebrations to recognize the dignity and contributions of working people -- we're sharing the story of their hard-fought legal victory which forever changed the face of labor rights in the United States. The Radium Girls had spent years painting watches and military dials with glowing radium paint, but even once the dire consequences of radium poisoning were clear, manufacturers like the U.S. Radium Corporation refused to provide help or compensation to their former employees. "They were going to die, there was no hope for them," says Kate Moore, author of "The Radium Girls." "[The women] are trying to speak out, and of course the radium firms not wanting that lucrative industry to be affected in the slightest, they're silencing the women with everything they've got."
When radium was first discovered in 1898, its use as a cancer treatment kicked off a craze for using the element in health and beauty products. "People were fascinated with its power," Moore says. "It does give this illusion of good health, because it stimulates the red blood cells… [but] in the long term you're poisoning yourself." At first, the Radium Girls were considered lucky: not only were they paid three times what a regular factory worker received, but they spent their days surrounded by this miracle substance. Their technique to put a point on their brushes by sticking it between their lips, though, exposed them to a huge amount of radiation. "[I]t was the easiest way to get a fine point on the brush, to paint on numbers as small as a single millimeter in width," Moore says. "The first thing they asked was [whether] the paint was harmful, but the managers said it was safe, which was the obvious answer for a manager of a company whose very existence depended on radium paint." Radium dust was so thick in the factory, Moore notes, that "they were nicknamed 'the ghost girls' because... they would glow ethereally, they would literally be covered in it."
In the early 1920s, some of the Radium Girls started having symptoms like fatigue and toothaches. The first death came in 1922: 22-year-old Mollie Maggia's whole lower jaw had been eroded by the radiation, but her death certificate mistakenly listed the cause of death as syphilis. "[T]hat was seized upon by these companies," Moore says. Existing laws also made it difficult for the women to force the company to act: radium poisoning was not on the list of diseases companies were liable for, and the two-year statute of limitations prevented workers from suing for a condition that often didn't present immediately. "It's mind-boggling," Moore says. "We knew from the turn of the century that radium was dangerous and large amounts of it could destroy human tissue…. The radium was destroying the bone and literally drilling holes in the women's jaws while they were still alive."
In 1925, Grace Fryer, a worker from the original New Jersey plant, decided to take U.S. Radium Corp. to court; it took her two years to find a lawyer who would take her case. In 1927, she and four workers filed, making headlines around the world. They were backed by the New Jersey Consumers League, who helped keep up the media pressure. The case was settled in 1928, by which point companies had already stopped recommending the lip pointing technique and started providing protective gear. Survivors were given compensation and doctors were directed to start listing the correct cause of death on death certificates. Even still, companies appealed for years; the Supreme Court rejected the final appeal in 1939. The case became a key milestone in the history of workers' rights. "It was one of the very first cases in which an employer was held accountable for the health of its employees, and so it lays the groundwork for organizations like OSHA (the Occupational Safety and Health Administration) that will eventually protect many millions of other workers," Moore says, "and I think that's quite a legacy to leave."
For adult readers who would like to learn more about these heroic women, we highly recommend "The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America's Shining Women" at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-radium-girls
There is also a new Young Readers adaptation of "The Radium Girls" for ages 10 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/the-radium-girls-young-readers-edition
For a young adult mystery about a modern teen girl who uncovers the story of the Radium Girls, we recommend "Glow" for ages 14 and up at https://www.amightygirl.com/glow
For books for children and teens about the contributions of women to the fight for workers' rights, check out our blog post "Fighting For Justice: 20 Books About Women and the Labor Movement" at https://www.amightygirl.com/blog?p=9881
And for fans of the bestselling "Radium Girls," we highly recommend author Kate Moore's new book about a forgotten hero who helped countless women whose voice had been silenced: "The Woman They Could Not Silence" at https://www.amightygirl.com/woman-they-could-not-silence
This week’s history making woman came to the United States as a refugee in 1948, was a forceful defender of democracy and human rights, and rose to become the USA’s first woman Secretary of State – considered to be that nation’s highest ranking government official. Find out more about Madeleine Albright in this week's podcast https://www.buzzsprout.com/1920577/episodes/10430534
Another woman who is making history!
Congratulations to Sarah-Eve Pelletier for her recent appointment by the Sport Dispute Resolution Centre of Canada to serve as Canada’s first sport integrity commissioner.
Sarah-Eve is a former national team artistic swimmer, a member of the Quebec Bar and an accredited civil mediator. Most recently she was with the Canadian Olympic Committee as its director of sports business and sustainability. She moves into her new role in May.
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