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Women in History
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Who was first woman to score a century in International T20 cricket?
belinda clark, she score 219 not out against denmark in 1997
Who was the first woman to graduate in the world?
The first woman to receive a university or college degree anywhere in the world was Elena Lucrezia Cornaro who was awarded a doctorate in philosophy by the University of Padua, Italy, in 1678. (She originally applied for a doctorate in theology but the Roman Catholic Church intervened saying that was a 'no-no'). As far as I know, no other woman was awarded a degree till 1732, when the University of Bologna (also in Italy) awarded a doctorate in philosophy to Laura Bassi Verati. The following year the University of Wittenberg, in Germany, crowned Christiane Marianne von Ziegler a poet. That's not the same thing as a degree, but nonetheless it was a real achievement ... Yes, there was a ceremony where they actually put a laurel wreath on her head. :)
Who is the only woman mentioned in Paul's letter to Philemon?
and to Apphia our sister, and to Archippus our fellow-soldier, and to the church in thy house:
Philem 1:2 (ASV)
What was the status for women in 1950s?
Women with kids had to stay home and nurture them until their early teen years.
They had to be good and obedient.
A diligent housewife had dinner on the table precisely at the moment her husband arrived from work.
Yep!! your welcome
Who was The first professional female lecturer?
Maria W. Stewart was the first black female lecturer.. other then her no one knows.... you should cha cha if you have txting.... its a free service 242 242
How did dorthea dix help mental people?
Dorthea Dix was the driving force behind the creation of hospitals for the mentally ill. In these mental institutions they patients were given treatment and care that they were not afforded before.
Who is the first woman disciple of Jesus?
Mary, his mother. But this depends upon how you mean "follower". Despite inferences to the contrary in the New testament (e.g. Mk 3:21), it is clear that Mary loved and followed her son. Jesus' sister (Salome; Mk 6:3; 15:40; 16:1) is the other most likely first female follower. Another possible answer is Mary "Magdalene". Aside from the supposition that Mary may have even been Jesus' wife, the written record would demonstrate that she was "first" among Jesus' followers (Esp. the Gospel of Philip), male or female. Even in the New testament where she is intentionally diminished in importance, she appears more often with Jesus than any other woman and is the first to see him after resurrection (Jn 20:11-18).
What was Martha Bulloch Roosevelt's job?
She was the mother of Theodore Roosevelt. She was a wealthy socialite.
Why did the professors insist that the vote on Elizabeth Blackwell's admission be unanimous?
The admission of Blackwell was unanimous because the students vote yes and because the professors thought that a majority of students will be against that a girl will come to a Medical School.
How old was amil ea Earhart when she died?
Amelia was a few days short of her 40th birthday when she died.
Which famous women shave their pubic hair?
I doubt that woman took out an advertisement. Since it was a private matter (pun intended), we will never know the identity of the "first woman in history" to shave her pubic hair.
Who was president that year when first women in usa allowed to vote?
Warren G. Harding was the first president to be elected after women were allowed to vote all over the US. Harding was elected president in 1920 which was the first election year after the women's suffrage amendment was ratified.
In 1890, Wyoming was the first state to allow women to vote. Grover Cleveland won that election. I assume some women in Wyoming voted for him.
Who was the only woman awarded the Medal of Honor?
Mary Edwards Walker, one of the nation's 1.8 million women veterans, was the only one to earn the Congressional Medal of Honor
Did amilia Earhart know any othere famous people?
Amelia knew many famous people, Eleanor Roosevelt, Capt. Hilton H. Railey, Wilmer Stultz, Amy Phipps Guest, Gore Vidal and many more.
How were the childern treated during the holocaust?
Many were killed. The ones who lived were treated like everyone else, no special treatment.
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the children where used as insentives to make the father and mother work. they would separate the families and play cruel games with them.
one woman with 2 children was forced to pick one to be killed and if she didn't pick they would kill both.
Who was Ohio's first female governor?
Nancy Hollister the 66th Governor of Ohio became the Governor when George Voinovich resigned to take a seat in the US Senate. No woman has ever been elected to the office if Governor of Ohio.
How old was she when Sandra Day O'Connor when she retired?
Justice Sandra Day O'Connor was 51 years old in 1981 when President Reagan appointed her as the first woman to serve on the US Supreme Court.
What jobs were for women in the 1950's?
The 1950s were a very conservative era. During the 1940s, when the men were off fighting the war, women found new and expanded opportunities in business, broadcasting, manufacturing, engineering, and other male-dominated occupations. But when the war ended, most women were told that they had to give up their jobs so the returning soldiers could have them. Women of the 1950s lived in a decade when only being a wife and a stay-at-home mother was considered suitable. Many women embraced this; but others did not: one poorly reported aspect of the era was that many women continued to work. But now, they could only work part-time, for greatly reduced wages, and they were back to stereotypically "female" jobs.
Most women of the 1950s were clerks, typists, or receptionists in offices. Some were nurse's aides or nurses. Some were teachers (although in many cities, the custom persisted that a female teacher was not allowed to marry, and if she did, she had to leave her job). There were some women on the radio, as experts on fashion or cooking or raising children. Some were on TV as actresses, but again, usually in very traditional roles as wives, mothers, or girlfriends hoping to find true love; there were also some women singers on TV, and a few women were comedians, like Lucille Ball; but the "dumb Dora" role was expected from women in comedy -- the woman comedian often had to act like a fool, and then she would be rescued from her calamities by her male significant other. Some Catholic women were nuns, and there were a few women lawyers or doctors, as well as some women who were authors. But for the most part, the culture demanded that women focus entirely on taking care of their family, and nothing else was supposed to matter.
What famous women were born in California?
There are many famous people that live in California, this is because their careers most of the time re in Hollywood. Some stars that I know of are; Selena Gomez, Miley Cyrus, Hilary Duff, Demi Lavoto, and the Joans Brothers <33
What happened at Amelia Earhart's last flight?
Amelia Earhart, the first woman to pilot a non-stop flight across the Atlantic Ocean, disappeared on July 2, 1937, during her attempt to fly around the globe. She was legally declared dead on Jan. 5, 1939, but nobody knows precisely what happened to her. In the years since her disappearance, researchers have posited a number of theories, some of which are more credible than others.
Let’s look at a few possible explanations:
1. She ran out of fuel and crashed near Howland Island.For decades, this was the most commonly accepted scientific theory for Earhart’s disappearance. At 7:42 a.m. local time on July 2, 1937, Earhart and her navigator, Fred Noonan, contacted the Coast Guard center at Howland Island, a coral island located about 1,650 miles southwest of Honolulu.
“We must be on you, but cannot see you—but gas is running low,” she said. “Have been unable to reach you by radio. We are flying at 1,000 feet.”
About an hour later, she sent her final verified transmission:
“We are on the line 157-337. We will repeat this message. We will repeat this on 6210 kilocycles. Wait.”
Since Earhart stopped broadcasting at this point, it’s logical to conclude that for some reason, she and her navigator could not find the island and ran out of fuel looking for it. Noonan would have been using celestial navigation (in other words, the position of the stars) to determine their position; had he not made proper adjustments when the plane crossed the International Date Line, the flight plan could have been 60 nautical miles off course.
Noonan was one of the best navigators in the world, but he might have been severely fatigued from the flight’s rigorous schedule. If he’d made a slight error, the plane would be lost.
2. She made it to an uninhabited island, but died there.In 2012, researchers from The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR) presented a study that made the case that Earhart survived her plane crash—and sent distress signals via radio.
"Amelia Earhart did not simply vanish on July 2, 1937. Radio distress calls believed to have been sent from the missing plane dominated the headlines and drove much of the U.S. Coast Guard and Navy search," Ric Gillespie, executive director of TIGHAR, told Discovery News.
"When the search failed, all of the reported post-loss radio signals were categorically dismissed as bogus and have been largely ignored ever since.”
The study concluded that about half of the 120 reported distress signals were credible.
"The results of the study show a body of evidence which might be the forgotten key to the mystery. It is the elephant in the room that has gone unacknowledged for nearly 75 years," Gillespie said.
TIGHAR’s Earhart Project theorizes that Earhart landed safely but died on an uninhabited island called Nikumaroro in the South Pacific while waiting for rescue. The project has combed Nikumaroro since 1989, collecting artifacts like possible aircraft wreckage, a 1930s makeup box, and shoe remnants—but never anything conclusive. They believe that Earhart died at a makeshift campsite and that remains found on the island in 1940 could be hers.
3. She was captured by Japanese forces.Proponents of this theory believe that Noonan and Earhart were captured by the Japanese military, and that the aviators were either executed or sentenced to die in work camps during World War II.
In 2017, a photograph from the National Archives went viral. According to descriptions accompanying the image, it was taken by a person spying on the Japanese for the United States. The photo appears to show two white Americans: a woman with a short haircut and a man. Take a look at the person sitting on the dock.
The History Channel ran a special on the photograph, which included facial recognition expert Kent Gibson claiming there was “very convincing evidence" that the photo shows Earhart and Noonan.
Others were less convinced—including Gillespie, who strongly supports the Nikumaroro theory.
“Let's use our heads for a moment,” he told the BBC. “It's undated. They think it's from 1937. Okay. If it's from July 1, 1937 then it can't be Amelia, because she hadn't taken off yet.”
“If it's from 1935 or 1938 it can't be her. …This photograph has to have been taken within a very narrow window—within a couple of days of when she disappeared.”
Gillespie also notes that the photo doesn’t show Japanese soldiers in uniform, and that the photo doesn’t closely resemble other photographs of Earhart. Another key piece of evidence: The people in the photo are dressed in clothes that Earhart and Noonan would not have had on the trip.
"Everything about this is wrong," Gillespie said. "I'm astounded."
Kota Yamano, a military history blogger, finally put this theory to rest in July 2017. After a fairly simple web search, Yamano found that the image first appeared in a Japanese-language travelogue of the South Seas—and it was published in 1935, years before Earhart and Noonan disappeared.
4. She faked her own death and assumed another identity.This is one of the many conspiracy theories surrounding Earhart’s disappearance. We won’t waste time addressing every single theory—some of which involve aliens, ghosts, and interdimensional travel—but the idea that Earhart faked her own death seemed at least somewhat plausible to the National Geographic Channel, which aired a 2006 episode of its Undiscovered History series investigating this premise.
The theory came from the book Amelia Earhart Lives by Joe Klaas and Major Joseph Gervais, who make the case that Earhart survived her flight, moved to New Jersey, and assumed the identity of Irene Bolam, a banker.
The claim was patently untrue. Other researchers looked into Bolam’s past and found a wealth of evidence proving that she wasn’t Earhart—she hadn’t suddenly started her life when Earhart disappeared, and National Geographic hired a forensic expert who showed many substantial facial differences between the two women.
Bolam filed a lawsuit for $1.5 million against the publisher and authors of Amelia Earhart Lives (court records suggest that the parties reached a private settlement), and McGraw-Hill withdrew the book from circulation.
So, what really happened?Unless scientists find Earhart’s plane—or other smoking gun evidence—we’ll probably never know. However, we can rule out some theories, and the Nikumaroro theory seems especially plausible, given current evidence.
"It's such an iconic mystery, and people hold on to that mystery," Gillespie told USA Today. "They love the mystery."
Yes. Sandra Day O'Connor, who was the first woman appointed to the US Supreme Court, is still alive as of June 2010. She was a member of the Court from 1981 until 2006.
What are some examples of chivalry towards women?
Mostly chivalrous behavior toward women during the middle ages was from the knights. Some examples? Well one thing in the knights code of honor (I don't think that's actually it's name but it's close enough) In other words their list of rules was that if they ever heard a woman cry for help they were to drop everything and go to her aid. Also they were never to "defile" a woman. The punishment for this was death (as it should be!). There are many other ways that chivalry was shown to women. In fact dictionary.com defines chivalry itself as "The qualities idealized by knighthood, such as bravery, courtesy, honor, and gallantry toward women."
