by Michele Genthon | Feb 25, 2014 | Education and STEM, FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
In every community, whether large of small, there are people who lead in their community in easy and difficult times. [Donna Shalala] Donna Shalala was the first woman to head a Big Ten school, but she may be better known for holding a cabinet position. Shalala was...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 17, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
“There was simply something about her that made you proud to be a part of the country that produced her.” [Former Texas governor Ann Richards] Barbara Jordan was the first African American woman to address the Democratic National Convention, but she started on the...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 10, 2014 | FIRST WOMEN, Politics and Government
“The times, they are a-changing.” [Bob Dylan] Tammy Baldwin was the first woman elected to the US House of Representatives from Wisconsin. She later became the first woman elected to the US Senate from Wisconsin. For these achievements alone, she enters the...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 6, 2014 | MUSINGS, Traveling
(This is written with apologies to my wonderful economics professor David Jobson at Keystone College, so many years ago. If I have misunderstood or forgotten any of the lessons you taught me, I regret that.) Solution to the Economic Problem in Southern Europe In...
by Michele Genthon | Feb 3, 2014 | Business and Economics, FIRST WOMEN
“I guess you could say she broke through the steel ceiling, not the glass ceiling.” [Hillary Clinton] Mary Barra is the daughter of an autoworker. She is also the CEO of General Motors, the first woman to head a global automaker. In 2013, Fortune magazine...