Until 1974 in the USA women were unable to open a bank account or acquire a line of credit without a man co-signing.
The financial services industry was led by (usually white) men. So eight women came together to turn everything around by opening their own Women's Bank.
Carol Green, Judi Wagner, LaRae Orullian, Gail Schoettler, Wendy Davis, Joy Burns, Beverly Martinez, and Edna Mosely founded the bank's board by each pitching in $1,000.
On 14 July 1978 The Women's Bank opened for business. People stood in line down the street in downtown Denver to deposit their money.
The first day's deposits exceeded $1 million.
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https://astrodon.social/@spacetelescope/112129293837501191 spacetelescope@astrodon.social - American astronomer Eleanor Francis “Glo” Helin discovered hundreds of asteroids and several comets. She also founded a survey program that discovered thousands of additional asteroids of all types. #WomensHistoryMonth

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♲ Maria Popova - 2024-03-01 17:31:20 GMT

In the autumn of 1883, a paper in the nation's capital reported that "an Iowa woman has spent 7 years embroidering the solar system on a quilt" — to teach astronomy in an era when women could not attend college. Her story: https://t.co/flA3OGGZQZ #WomensHistoryMonth

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https://zeroes.ca/@westernspinster/109985214856422992 westernspinster@zeroes.ca - Give these Navajo women credit for making the Apollo Missions possible:

"The historic Apollo moon missions are often associated with high-visibility test flights... But intricate, challenging handiwork — comparable to weaving — was just as essential to putting men on the moon... the Navajo women who assembled state-of-the-art integrated circuits for the Apollo Guidance Computer... who wove the computer’s core memory."

#Navajo #Indigenous #Native #WomensHistoryMonth

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/core-memory-weavers-navajo-apollo-raytheon-computer-nasa

Zitkála-Šá was a Yankton Dakota writer, musician, educator, and activist. Throughout her career, she wrote and published a variety of works, including an anthology of Dakota stories and an opera.
In 1916 she was the Secretary of the Society of the American Indian and served as the liaison between the society and the Bureau of Indian Affairs. In 1926 she founded the National Council of American Indians. Just a few years later in 1928, she was appointed to the Merriam Commission, whose findings led to important reforms.

Zitkála-Šá continually advocated for Native rights, opportunities, and cultural preservation throughout her life. #womenshistorymonth

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zitkala-Sa

Zitkala-Sa - Wikipedia

Laura Ingalls Wilder: "From wagon to plane"

“I realized that I had seen and lived it all— all the successive phases of the frontier . . . I represented a whole period of American history.”- Laura Ingalls Wilder

Laura Ingalls Wilder was born in 1867 in Wisconsin, and died in 1957 in Missouri. Known for her books, Wilder saw the explosion of travel in her lifetime.

As a young girl, she and her family traveled by covered wagon to Minnesota, Kansas, Iowa, Missouri, Indian Territory, and the Dakota Territory. When she was born, transcontinental travel by train was just coming about, and many still used wagons to move. However, as train travel became cheaper, she utilized it to settle in a new town.

In 1908, the Model T came into existence, and its cheap cost soon made travel by car accessible to all. Laura Ingalls Wilder, who lived much of her life in Missouri, took the family car for long drives to get off their farm. The modernization of airplanes and their more frequent use for public air travel allowed Laura Ingalls to take an airplane ride to California to visit her daughter and to view the Pacific Ocean.

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s Little House book series were not published until she was in her sixties, and her daughter, Rose, helped her. Her books have been read by people everywhere. Her life travels exemplify the unique and rapid growth of transportation. From traveling weeks in a wagon as a young girl to flying across the country in a few short hours, she was one of many to experience the growth of America to new frontiers and the end of the Wild West.

From Hidden History:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laura_Ingalls_Wilder

#lauraingallswilder #littlehouseontheprairie #WomensHistoryMonth #herstorymatters Laura Ingalls Wilder Historic Home and Museum Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum Laura Ingalls Wilder Museum, Pepin Wisconsin

Laura Ingalls Wilder - Wikipedia

Buffalo Calf Road Woman was a Northern Cheyenne warrior who took part in two major battles of the Great Sioux War of 1876.

She is noted for saving her brother, Chief Comes in Sight, during the Battle of Rosebud in Montana. She fought in the Battle of the Little Bighorn with her fellow Northern Cheyenne alongside Arapaho and Lakota Allies. Decades later the Northern Cheyenne publicly shared stories of her accomplishments and credit her with striking Custer from his horse.

Buffalo Calf Road Woman is a brilliant example of bravery, perseverance, and honor. The same virtues that our Indigenous women live by today. #womenshistorymonth
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_Calf_Road_Woman

Buffalo Calf Road Woman - Wikipedia

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Te Ata Thompson Fisher - Chickasaw Storyteller:

Te Ata Thompson Fisher, whose name means “Bearer of the Dawn,” was born Dec. 3, 1895, near Emet, Okla. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Te Ata was an accomplished actor and teller of Native American stories.

Her career as an actor and storyteller spanned more than 60 years. During the prime of her career, she performed in England and Scandinavia, at the White House for President Franklin Roosevelt, for the King and Queen of Great Britain, and on stages across the United States.
Although Te Ata worked as an actor and drama instructor, she is best known for her artistic interpretations of Indian folklore, and for her children's book she co-authored on the subject.
Her world-renown talent has won her several honors including induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957, being named The Ladies’ Home Journal Woman of the Year in 1976, being named Oklahoma's Official State Treasure in 1987, and having a lake near Bear Mountain in New York named in her honor.

She is also the subject of a video, God's Drum, the proceeds of which have supported the Te Ata Scholarship Fund for Indian students at her alma mater, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha, Okla.

Te Ata died Oct. 26, 1995 in Oklahoma City, though her legacy and influence on the Native American storytelling traditions continues to this day.

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The Smithsonian kicks off their "Women's Futures Month" with IfThenSheCan - The Exhibit, a collection of 120 3D-printed statues of women in STEM.

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Smithsonian Launches New ‘Women’s Futures Month’ With National Mall Debut of 120 Statues Celebrating Women in STEM | Smithsonian Institution

The Smithsonian will shake up Women’s History Month in March with a new Women’s Futures Month, a forward-looking celebration of the power of women and girls in STEM (science, technology, engineering, mathematics) to shape a better world. To kick...

Ukrainian folk artist, Kateryna Bilokur (1900-1961), was a self-taught virtuosa of primitive art and decorative folk painting. Her paintings of flowers and fruit in gardens, orchards, and fields, still lifes, and portraits and self-portraits display originality, vivid colouring, and great attention to detail.

She was born into poverty in a remote and obscure village in the Ukraine, and relatively few people knew of her work in her lifetime. However, when some of her works found their way to western Europe and were exhibited in Paris in 1954, it is said that none other than Pablo Picasso viewed and became entranced by her paintings, saying that if her works were widely known, she would be the talk of the world.

In 1956 she was named the 'People’s Artist of Ukraine', and she has been recognised as one of the greatest artists ever to emerge from the Ukraine.

This is her 1942 painting, Flowers at Night.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kateryna_Bilokur
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Kateryna Bilokur - Wikipedia