“They told me that, as a woman, I'd
never get into graduate school in
physics, so they got me a job as a
secretary at the College of Physicians
and Surgeons and promised that,
if I were a good girl, I would
take courses there.”
–Rosalyn Sussman Yalow,
co-recipient, 1977 Nobel Prize
in Physiology and Medicine
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WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog
to This Week in the War On Women
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“We know that when people are
civically engaged, when they understand
what their rights are, when they understand
that in a democracy you can challenge
governments, you can challenge
policymakers, and you can... actually
shape and form future policy, I think it
changes the perception that a lot of young
people have about where power is.”
–Ilhan Omar,
U.S. Representative from Michigan
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“Our task is to transmute the anger
that is affliction into the anger that is
determination to bring about change.
I think, in fact, that one could give
that as a definition of revolution.”
–Barbara Deming,
activist for peace, civil rights,
and women’s and LGBTQ+ rights
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The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark events in women’s history.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
THIS WEEK IN THE WAR ON WOMEN
will post shortly, so be sure to go there next, and
catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines.