Women and Adversity
Women and Adversity: Ana Marie Argilagos, CEO of Hispanics in Philanthropy
March 27, 2025Women and Adversity: Ana Marie Argilagos President and CEO Hispanics in Philanthropy One of Forbes 50 Over 50 Ana Marie Argilagos became the chief executive officer of Hispanics in Philanthrop ...
Women and Adversity: Book Review: 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure by Teri M. Brown
March 13, 2025Women and Adversity: Book Review 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure By Teri M. Brown 10 Little Rules for a Double-Butted Adventure by Teri M. Brown recounts exactly what the title sugg ...
Women and Adversity: LaTosha Brown, Black Voters Matter
February 27, 2025Women and Adversity: LaTosha Brown Cofounder: Black Voters Matter One of Forbes 50 Over 50 LaTosha Brown understands how to get voters hyped to go to the polls. From the time she was six years ...
Women and Adversity: Darlene Goins
February 13, 2025Women and Adversity Darlene Goins Wells Fargo Foundation President Forbes 50 Over 50 Wells Fargo & Company announced in December 2023 that Darlene Goins would serve as president of the We ...
Women and Adversity: Laurie Adams
January 23, 2025Women and Adversity Laurie Adams WfWI, CEO A Forbes 50 Over 50 Most of the women named in Forbes "50 Over 50 2024" list are not known to the average reader. I never heard of Laurie Adams or Wome ...
Women and Adversity 2025, Welcome!
January 9, 2025WELCOME TO WOMEN AND ADVERSITY . I began writing this blog in 2014 and have never failed to find women who have overcome obstacles and, as a result, have influenced other women to overcome their o ...
Women and Adversity: Margaret E. Knight ‘Woman Edison’ Inventor of Machines My second December repeat post is of Margaret “Mattie” Eloise Knight. She is quoted as saying, “I’m only sorry I couldn’t have had as good a chance as a boy.” Knight wasn’t like the average girl who played with dolls and wanted to be a wife and mother. Her world revolved around tools and machines. She was born in 1838 and at age 12, invented a safety device that prevented the shuttle from falling off a loom. She couldn’t patent her invention because she was too young to get a patent. Flat-bottom bags are part of our shopping experience and most of us, I’m sure, have never questioned how they were invented. Look back to Knight, who wanted to find a way to make bags easier to fold. In 1867, while working at The Columbia Paper Bag Company in Springfield, Massachusetts, she saw the machine had problems, so she invented a machine that cut, glued and folded a bag so its bottom was flat. There’s more to the story. She made a wooden model and asked machine shop worker Charles Annan to make an iron model of her design. He stole her design and had it patented. She filed a lawsuit against him and got the patent in 1871. She and a partner then established the Eastern Paper Bag Company, acquired two more patents that made the production more efficient and then mass-produced paper bags. The machine is displayed in the Smithsonian National Museum of American History. Among her other inventions: 1883 – dress and skirt shield 1884 – clasp for robes 1885 – barbeque spit for cooking meats 1890 – shoe cutting machines 1894 – window frame and sash Bio: Born February 14, 1838, in York, Maine When her father died, the family moved to Manchester, New Hampshire 1850 – Left school and began working 1867 – Moved to Springfield, Massachusetts and worked at Columbia Paper Bag Company 1880s-1890s – focused on inventing household items 2006 – Inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame Knight never married. She died on October 12, 1914 at the age of 76. More information: www.youtube.com/watch?v=M3-lgR2EHUc biographies.framinghamhistory.org/margaret-e-knight www.encyclopedia.com/science/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/margaret-e-knight My ebooks are available at amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com: Honoring 23 Black Women, Recognizing 23 Notable Mothers, Saluting 23 Faithful Suffragists
December 26, 2024Women and Adversity: Margaret E. Knight ‘Woman Edison’ Inventor of Machines My second December repeat post is of Margaret “Mattie” Eloise Knight. She is quoted as saying, “I’m onl ...
Women and Adversity: Lorraine Hansberry, Lesbian, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist
December 12, 2024Women and Adversity: Lorraine Hansberry Lesbian, Playwright, Civil Rights Activist In December I always repeat a post I think people will appreciate reading about again. Since I'm from the ...
Women and Adversity: Marlena Fejzo, Ph.D., Geneticist, One of Time’s 2024 Women of the Year
November 28, 2024Women and Adversity Marlena Fejzo, Ph.D. Geneticist One of Time’s 2024 Women of the Year Pregnant women can thank Marlena Fejzo (Fay⸍zō), Ph.D. for connecting their extreme nausea an ...
Women and Adversity: Janet Murguía One of Forbes 50 Over 50 President and CEO of UnidosUS
November 14, 2024Janet Murguía President and CEO UnidosUS Janet Murguía became president and CEO of UnidosUS, formerly the National Council of La Raza, on January 1, 2005. It is the largest civil rights advocacy ...