Tri-County Woman Magazine

19/04/2021

MiMi Aung - the lead engineer on the Mars Helicopter Ingenuity, the first aircraft to take flight on another planet. It took Aung and her team a total of six years to plan and build Integrity for its Mars flight.
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08/03/2021

International Women’s Day is a about celebrating the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women around the globe.

A few tidbits: The first gathering in celebration was way back in 1911. This year’s theme is

24/11/2020

Author Dana Muwwakkil wrote and published her diary/memoir - about a year in her life as a mom, wife, writer and a person living with anxiety. Way back when, she wrote a column for the magazine that was her first paid writing gig! Congrats to our own “Screen Queen” 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

fom Communications: Author ’s Speak On It! podcast chat ended with a reading from her new book "The Anxierty Diaries." Check it out, then buy yourself a copy via her website, Amazon or wherever books are sold 📚

18/08/2020

100 Years ago today: The 19th Amendment was adopted, giving 26 million American women the right to vote - and in time for the 1920 U.S. presidential election. It failed to fully enfranchise African American, Asian American, Hispanic American, and Native American women, however...

08/03/2020

Today...

18/10/2019

HERstory...

17/10/2019

Take two is set for Friday...

Astronauts Christina Koch and Jessica Meir will replace a faulty power regulator on the International Space Station. Only 15 women have participated in spacewalks, and all were accompanied by men.

05/10/2019

Hooray!

NASA originally scrapped the first plans because they didn't have properly sized spacesuits for the astronauts.

22/08/2019

Black Women’s Equal Pay Day - which symbolizes the approximate number of days a Black woman must work into the new year to make what their White non-Hispanic male counterparts made at the end of the previous year - is today, August 22. Sadly, it fell two-weeks later in 2019 than it did in 2018 (August 7), which suggests Black women are actually losing ground in the race toward .

From the article:
“Despite Black women serving as chief breadwinners in at least 70 percent of our households, Black women’s compensation continues to languish—according to American Community Survey (ACS) Census data, the 2019 wage gap for Black women and men is $.61; while White female counterparts earn nearly $0.80 to the dollar.”

Here are practical things we can do to make sure we do what we can to earn what we should:

Here’s how we can play a role in our own economic liberation and work to disrupt systems that guarantee our inequality.

29/05/2019

On May 29,1851, Sojourner Truth delivered her famous “Ain’t I a Woman” speech at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in Akron.

03/05/2019

Caster Semenya is a South African track and field athlete who has naturally high testosterone. She was ordered by the IAAF to take hormones to lower her testosterone if she wants to ever compete internationally in the 800M run - an event she’s dominated for years - again. She appealed the decision but the ruling was upheld earlier this week...

which is absolutely absurd.

08/04/2019

It’s necessary, for sure...

26/03/2019

Have you seen this yet? “Period. End of Sentence” is a 26-minute documentary on how the lives of a group of women in Hapur, India were changed by the development of a sanitary napkin-making machine that makes biodegradable and inexpensive pads in a place where periods cause women embarrassment and loss of education when they drop out of school once they hit puberty. So good, it won a Best Documentary (Short Subject) Oscar this year. Catch it on Netflix before it’s gone.

26/03/2019

Happy Birthday to Sandra Day O’Connor, the first woman to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court. She would have been 89 today...

24/03/2019

Congrats to officiating great, Mary Onken, who was inducted into the Officials Hall of Fame this afternoon. A powerhouse in the world of , she is a high-ranking professional in NYS, NCAA, USATF and IAAF associations having officiated state, regional, national collegiate, US Championships and Olympic Trials and Special Olympics A retired educator from the Monroe-Woodbury school district., she is an amazing inspiration to women in sports. 👑

11/03/2019

This is huge...

The players, who include some of the world’s most famous female athletes, accused their federation of years of “institutionalized gender discrimination.”

09/03/2019

🎉✨🎊🚀

Mashable is a global, multi-platform media and entertainment company.

08/03/2019

Confetti toss!

08/02/2019

Did you know that February is Teen Dating Violence Awareness Month?

A few years back, we did a story on teen dating (or intimate partner) violence and the statistics were quite shocking. One in 10 high school students has been hit, slapped or physically hurt by a boyfriend or girlfriend with women 18 to 24 experiencing the highest rate of intimate partner violence, which is close to double the national average.

For more about the subtle warning signs of an unhealthy relationship, how to broach the subject with a young adult in your life and where to go for resources and information, check out this link:

http://www.joyfulheartfoundation.org/learn/domestic-violence/teen-dating-violence

04/02/2019

Don’t forget to check out your local library’s Black History Month offerings.

And year-round, of course.

31/12/2018

Happy New Year to you and yours. May your 2019 be merry and bright...
(Thanks to for the screenshot)

04/12/2018

What do you wish your clothing store shelves offered more - or even less - of?

Today as I tried to shave down some of the inbox clutter, one of the newsletters I get lured me to its lead story with an interesting headl...

21/11/2018

“At Risk” series creator Courtney Elizabeth answers your questions about child welfare, personal relationships and mental wellness. Got a question for the team? Inbox it to them today...

07/11/2018

A study from the Dr. Susan Love Research Foundation for folks with no history of cancer to help evaluate a new series of thinking tests:

Breast cancer treatments may have an impact on how the brain processes information and emotions as well as on a person’s attention span and behavior. To better understand and measure these changes, researchers at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center developed a new thinking test called the Senso...

10/10/2018

Yes, she danced onto the stage...

10/10/2018

And this was her entrance. Fitting for a literary trailblazer, right?

10/10/2018

We just met Alice Walker in the press room here in New Rochelle. Still swooning...

24/09/2018

The great Alice Walker is coming to Westchester! Wanna hear her read from her latest poetry collection “Taking the Arrow Out Of the Heart?” If you register with our code, you’ll get a signed copy of her collection and entry to the reading for $40. IM us for details...

26/08/2018

Today marks the 98th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s certification into law. Women fought for 72 years for the right to vote - and it still took a while longer before most women of color could cast their ballots. Sigh...
(📸: Library of Congress.)

26/08/2018

Today marks the 98th anniversary of the 19th Amendment’s certification into law. Women fought for 72 years for the right to vote - and it still took a while longer before most women of color could vote. Sigh...
(📸: Library of Congress.)