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Engineering at the Epicenter: Ruth Gordon Schnapp, California's First Woman Structural Engineer. In the year 1933, the Long Beach Earthquake bore down on Southern California with the fury of revelation. At 6.4, it was not the largest earthquake to ever hit the state, but it left behind a shockin...

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RUTH GORDON SCHNAPP (1926-2014) worked at Boeing during WW2. When the war ended, Boeing demoted all female staff to typist to make room for the men, she protested by typing everything slowly, before returning to school at Stanford. She graduated with civil engineering degree. #History #Herstory 2/2

RUTH GORDON SCHNAPP (1926-2014) was California's 1st female Structural Engineer. The daughter of a Russian immigrant, she passed the state's grueling 16 hour exam the 1st time - a rare thing to do. #History #Herstory 1/2

Stories like these makes one aware of what it has taken to get basic rights & how important it is to keep them. It also makes one appreciate the efforts & sacrifices of those who made it happen in the first place. 🙏

“I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct & will bear the consequences that result from my conduct.” - SOPHIE SCHOLL #Quote

Sophie Scholl and the White Rose Sophie Scholl and the White Rose movement, while less known to Americans, is a powerful example of youthful resistance to the Nazi Regime.

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SOPHIE SCHOLL (1921-1943) was executed along with her brother, Hans, and Christoph Probst, but their final pamphlet was smuggled into Britain where where it was reprinted & then dropped all over Germany by Allied planes. #History #Herstory 2/2

SOPHIE SCHOLL (1921-1943) was a key member of the German resistance group - White Rose. Run by students at the University of Munich, they distributed leaflets decrying Nazi crimes & advocating opposing the Nazi state. #History #Herstory 1/2

JEANNETTE RANKIN (1880-1973) was ardent pacifist, she was the only member of congress to vote against entering WW1 & WW2. In 1968, she lead a peace march with 5000 women to protest the Vietnam war. #History #Herstory

📅Nov 4 1960: Jane Goodall, observed chimpanzees creating tools, signifying the first documented observation of tool use in non-human animals. #WomenInSTEM #WomenInHistory
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HARRIET BOYD HAWES (1871-1945) was encouraged to be an academic librarian by her professors rather than participate archaeological fieldwork. She didn’t listen & went anyway. She became the 1st archaeologist to discover & excavate an Early Bronze Age Minoan town (1901-1904). #History #Herstory

NPR 'founding mother' Susan Stamberg has died Susan Stamberg, an original National Public Radio staffer who went on to become the first U.S. woman to anchor a nightly national news program, has died.

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SUSAN STAMBERG (1935-2025) was one of the founding mothers of National Public Radio (NPR) & the 1st female host of a national news broadcast (1972) in the US. She worked for NPR for 54 years as host & producer. #History #Herstory

"Every great mistake has a halfway moment, a split second when it can be recalled and perhaps remedied." - PEARL S. BUCK #Inspire #Change #Quote

Screen shot of part of the first page of Hispanic/Latino Medal of Honor recipients listed on CMOHS.org.

PFC Gonsalves is one of 60 Medal of Honor recipients of Hispanic/Latino heritage from the Civil War to the present day. Trump and Hegseth may remove their names and photos from federal content, but nothing can ever erase their heroism and their contributions to the defense of this nation. /end

Elsie MacGill Elizabeth (Elsie) Muriel Gregory MacGill, OC, aeronautical engineer, feminist (born 27 March 1905 in Vancouver, BC; died 4 November 1980 in Cambridge, Massach...

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ELSIE MACGILL (1905-1980) she became the chief aeronautical engineer at Canadian Car & Foundry (Can Car) in 1938 & was instrumental the massive production of the Hawker Hurricane for the Royal Air Force during WW2. #History #Herstory 3/3

ELSIE MACGILL (1905-1980) was struck with a severe polio shortly after graduating. Doctors told her she would be permanently paralyzed from the waist down, but regain limited movement in her legs by exercising every day. #History #Herstory 2/3

ELSIE MACGILL (1905-1980) was the 1st woman in Canada to graduate with an electrical engineering degree (1927) & 1st woman in the world to graduate with a master’s in aeronautical engineering (1929). #History #Herstory 1/3

Having credit cards in their own names allow women to build  credit scores which allowed them to get loans for major life purchases like cars or houses - on their own! #History #Herstory 2/2

On October 28, 1974, President Gerald Ford signed the Equal Credit Opportunity Act. This allowed women to finally get credit cards in their own names - without the help of their husband or father. #History #Herstory 1/2

Biography: Ida B. Wells-Barnett Ida B. Wells-Barnett was a prominent journalist, suffragist, activist, and researcher.

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IDA WELLS-BARNETT (1862-1931) began her anti-lynching crusade working as a journalist and lecturer after 3 friends were lynched in 1892. #History #Herstory 3/3

IDA WELLS-BARNETT (1862-1931) was born into slavery &d freed after the Civil War along with her parents. She helped raise her 6 siblings as a teacher after her parents died of yellow fever, but was fired after exposing the poor school conditions. #History #Herstory 2/3

IDA WELLS-BARNETT (1862-1931) was anti-lynching activist & journalist. She published “A Red Record,” in 1895, which provided the history & statistical data on the lynching of African Americans in the United States. #History #Herstory 1/3

“What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.” - JANE GOODALL #Inspire #Quote

📆Oct. 23 1915: 25,000 women marched up Fifth Avenue demanding the right to vote in the United States. This became one of the largest demonstrations for women’s suffrage at the time, helping build momentum leading up to the ratification of the 19th Amendment in 1920. #WomenInSTEM #WomenMakingHistory

MARY McLEOD BETHUNE (1875-1955) started with just five students, she eventually expanded the school to a high school, then a junior college, & finally a college. Today, her legacy is Bethune-Cookman University. #History #Herstory 2/2

MARY McLEOD BETHUNE (1875-1955) was the 1st person in her family born free & 1st person in her family to get a formal education. In 1904, she scraped together $1.50 to begin a school for black children. #History #Herstory 1/2

AMY BEACH (1867-1944) performed her own compositions is the US & Germany. By 1913, demand in Germany for her sheet music was greater what the publisher had made. She went on to used her status as the top female American composer to further the careers of other young musicians. #History #Herstory 2/2