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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
He for She: 10 Amazing STEM Women and the Men Who Supported
Them
Jill S. Tietjen, P.E.President, National Women’s Hall of
FameCo-Author, “Her Story: A Timeline of the
Women Who Changed America”
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1757
Jane Colden
• Her father, Cadwallader Colden, was a naturalist who nurtured her interest in botany
• Considered the first woman American botanist
• Classified over 300 species of flora in the Hudson River Valley
• Discovered and named the gardenia
• Her work is housed in the British Museum
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1848
Maria Mitchell
• Her father, William Mitchell, was an amateur astronomer who encouraged her interest
• Awarded a gold medal by the King of Denmark when she discovered a comet
• The first woman elected to the American Association for the Advancement of Science
• First female professor at Vassar College – she inspired a generation of women astronomers
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1882
Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards
• Had the full support of her husband, Robert Richards, a professor of mining engineering at MIT
• Credited as the founder of the field of home economics.
• One of the founders of the American Association of University Women.
• Called the “Mother of Ecology.”
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1898
Julia Morgan
• Enjoyed the sponsorship of William Randolph Hearst for twenty years
• First woman to study architecture in Paris
• Her many projects for the YWCA include the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove
• Known as the architect of the “Hearst Castle” in San Simeon, California – today a California State Park
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1924
Gladys Dick
• Collaborated with her husband on all of her scarlet fever research
• Proved the cause of scarlet fever
• Published papers on how to prevent, test, diagnose and treat scarlet fever
• Received the patent for the Dick test – a skin test to determine a person’s susceptibility to scarlet fever
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1931
Lillian Moller Gilbreth
• Strongly supported by her husband, Frank Gilbreth, who saw that her work was a complement to his. They had 12 children to test their theories of industrial engineering
• A pioneering advocate of career interest tests
• She did extensive work to make the kitchen more efficient and to accommodate individuals with disabilities
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1950
Beatrice Hicks
• Received full support from her husband, Rodney D. Chipp
• First president of the Society of Women Engineers
• Recognized by the New Jersey Inventor’s Hall of Fame. She invented the gas density sensor
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1974
Becky Schroeder
• Had the support of her father, a patent attorney
• Received her first patent for an illuminated writing board (later called the Glo-sheet) while she was a preteeen
• One of the youngest Americans to have ever received a patent
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1977
Rosalyn Yalow
• For over twenty years, collaborated with physician Solomon Berson
• Developed radioimmunoassay, a technique that uses radioactive isotopes to measure small amounts of biological substances
• Received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
1988
Gertrude Elion
• Worked with biochemist George Herbert Hitchings for her entire career and shared the Nobel Prize with him
• Nobel Prize – 1988 – in Physiology or Medicine
• Developed the first drug to treat childhood leukemia
• Developed an immunosuppressant drug that allows organ transplants
• Inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
He for She – Steps Men Can Take to Support Women
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Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
• Six of these ten women have been inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
• Over 850 women, including the ones you’ve just learned about, are in my book
• The book features women from every field of endeavor, including all STEM fields
• These women changed America. They did amazing things and we don’t know about them!
I tell the stories of great women and write women back into
history. I want to hear from you. I would love to come speak to
your organization:[email protected]
Her Story: A Timeline of the Women Who Changed America © 2013
Sources:
Womenshistory.about.com www.greatwomen.org – The web site of the National Women’s Hall of FameBailey, Martha J. “American Women in Science: A Biographical Dictionary.” ABC-CLIP: Santa Barbara, California, 1994.James, Edward T., Janet Wilson James, Paul S. Boyer, Editors. “Notable American Women 1607-1950: A Biographical Dictionary.” The Belknap Press of Harvard University: Cambridge, Massachusetts, 1971. Macdonald, Anne L. “Feminine Ingenuity: Women and Invention in America.” Ballantine Books: New York, New York, 1992. Profitt, Pamela, Editor. “Notable Women Scientists.” Gale Group: Farmington Hills, Michigan, 1999.