Women and Adversity

Women and Adversity: Adele Myers, novelist The Tobacco Wives
December 20, 2023Women and Adversity: Adele Myers, novelist The Tobacco Wives My last blog post in December is always a repeat of one I posted during the year, and this year I want to reprint my blog on Adele Mye ...

Women and Adversity: Karen C. Whalen, Novelist
December 7, 2023Women and Adversity: Karen C. Whalen, Novelist Friends Come to Call, Karen C. Whalen’s fourth novel in her Tow Truck Murder Mysteries, captivates the reader to the very end. Mystery, rom ...

Women and Adversity: Anne L’Huillier, 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics
November 23, 2023Subscribe to my blog via email at the bottom of www.jamathews.com/blog Women and Adversity: Anne L’Huillier 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Physics Anne L’Huillier was awarded the Nobel Prize ...

Women and Adversity: Claudia Goldin, 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics
November 9, 2023Subscribe to my blog via email at the bottom of www.jamathews.com/blog Women and Adversity: Claudia Goldin 2023 Nobel Prize Winner in Economics Claudia Goldin is the third woman to receive the ...

Women and Adversity: Narges Mohammadi, 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner
October 26, 2023Subscribe to my blog via email at the bottom of www.jamathews.com/blog Women and Adversity: Narges Mohammadi 2023 Nobel Peace Prize Winner The suppression of women in Iran goes beyond what any ...

Women and Adversity: Katalin Karikó 2023 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine
October 12, 2023Women and Adversity: Katalin Karikó 2023 Winner of Nobel Prize in Medicine Katalin “Kati” Karikó’s scientific pursuit is a journey of determination. She believed in her research of mRNA ...

Women and Adversity: Giorgia Meloni, First Woman Prime Minister of Italy
September 28, 2023Women and Adversity: Giorgia Meloni First Woman Prime Minister of Italy At a 2019 Italian Pride rally, Giorgia Meloni shouts, “I am Giorgia, I am a woman, I am a mother, I am Italian, ...

Women and Adversity: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards First Woman to graduate M.I.T.
September 14, 2023Women and Adversity: Ellen Henrietta Swallow Richards First Woman to graduate M.I.T. The recent bestseller Lessons in Chemistry by Bonnie Garmus relates a clever use of chemistry in daily li ...

Women and Adversity: Zuzana Čaputová First Woman President of Slovakia
August 24, 2023Women and Adversity: Zuzana Čaputová First Woman President of Slovakia Zuzana Čaputová (Zoo Zan⸍nah Cop⸍ oo toe vah) has been called the Erin Brockovich of Slovakia because of her det ...

Women and Adversity: Ana Brnabic Prime Minister of Serbia
August 10, 2023Women and Adversity: Ana Brnabić Prime Minister of Serbia We get into complicated territory when we talk of the Balkan Penisula, a region in southeastern Europe. Eleven countries comprise the Ba ...