Women's History

<p>Women’s history today is no longer a backwater; nor is the profession of history a male craft.</p>

<p><span class="deck">The Women Airforce Service Pilots seemed strange and exotic to World War II America. In fact, not even the military could quite fiqure out what to do with them.</span></p>

<p style="margin:0in 0in 8pt">America’s first female soldiers were Signal Corps telephone operators who made sure that critical messages got through, often while threatened by artillery fire.</p>

<p>Not given credit for their work and paid half a man's salary, women writers won a landmark suit against discrimination at the magazines of Time, Inc., but their success has been largely overlooked.</p>

<p>The ex-slave and investigative journalist spent a lifetime fighting against lynching and segregation — but also for voting rights for African-American women. </p>

<p>The long, embattled history of women’s suffrage that began with the 1848 Seneca Falls Convention continues to this day.</p>

<p>Her owner planned to take her from California to slave-holding Texas, so Biddy Mason went to court. After a dangerous drama, she won her freedom.</p>

<p>Few roads were even paved when Alice Ramsey and three friends became the first women to drive coast to coast in 1909.</p>

<p>Kate Mullany's former home in Troy, New York honors one of the earliest women's labor unions that sought fair pay and safe working conditions.</p>

<p>These extraordinary women changed the history of photojournalism.</p>

<p>When the Pentagon wanted a photographer to record the largest airborne assault in the Vietnam War, the most qualified candidate was a young French woman.</p>

<p>After her death, Dickey Chapelle’s editor at <em>National Geographic </em>paid tribute to the gutsy war correspondent he knew.</p>

<p>Two gifted sisters in Philadelphia helped to transform early American science.</p>