Gloria Steinem has an excellent suggestion.
If women are equal to men as the rabid rethuglicans say we are, then there certainly should be no difference in how we are treated vs. how men are treated. That's the fair & equal thing to do. RIGHT?
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The Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University is one of the world’s leading centers for interdisciplinary research and exploration.
We bring students, scholars, artists, and practitioners together to pursue curiosity-driven research, expand human understanding, and grapple with questions that demand insight from across disciplines.
The Institute’s work is shaped by its history as the former Radcliffe College—a school founded to ensure that the standard of education embodied in Harvard was accessible to women, who were then excluded from the University. Radcliffe’s defining commitment to women and the study of gender endures in the Institute’s programs and the world-class collections of its Schlesinger Library. But the legacy of Radcliffe College is not simply coeducation at Harvard; it is the recognition that universities will always be greater when they draw wisdom and talent from the widest possible pool. This principle has guided Radcliffe’s work for nearly a century and a half. Among the many distinguished schools of Harvard, the Institute is unique: interdisciplinary by design and animated by a legacy of promoting inclusion.
RACHEL LELAND LEVINE, M.D. (1958 - ) is the Assistant Secretary for Health for the U.S. Department of Health, having been appointed by President Biden and confirmed by the U.S. Senate. She previously served as Pennsylvania Department of Health Secretary and the head of the U.S. Public Health Service Commissioned Corp., becoming the first transgender four-star officer. She has also as professor of pediatrics and psychiatry at the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center and the chief of the Division of Adolescent Medicine and Eating Disorders.
Dr. Levine was born October 28, 1957, in Wakefield, Massachusetts with the birth name of Richard L. Levine. Levine has one sister.
She grew up attending Hebrew School. Then graduated from Harvard College and Tulane University School of Medicine. Levine completed her residency in pediatrics and a fellowship in adolescent medicine at Mount Sinai Medical Center. It was during this period that Dr. Levine married Martha Peaslee Levine with whom she has two children. The couple was divorced in 2013.
Dr. Levine describes her transition as slow, deliberate and filled with research. The transition began when she started seeing a therapist in 2001. She announced herself as transgender in 2011. Levine took the step of attending voice lessons so she would sound more like a woman.
In a statement at the time of her appointment to Assistant Secretary of Health President Bien said “Dr. Levine will bring the steady leadership and essential expertise we need to get people through this pandemic – no matter their zip code, race, religion, sexual orientation, gender identity, or disability – and meet the public health needs of our country in this critical moment and beyond.” “She is a historic and deeply qualified choice to help lead our administration’s health effort.”
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Ruby Hirose (1904-1960)
Although it is a part of history we do not like to admit, the United States did—and still does—have internment camps to isolate individuals that the government deems “suspect.” Native Americans were sent to live on reservations so colonists could access more desirable land. In more recent events, detainment camps were established at Guantanamo Bay to interrogate and torture those suspected of terrorism. One instance that tends to go under the radar in history class and current news is the Japanese internment camps that appeared on the West Coast after the attack on Pearl Harbor. Dr. Ruby Hirose, a researcher in the Midwest for William S. Merrell Laboratories during World War II, luckily escaped this fate by simply not living on a coast. As such, Dr. Hirose did not leave Ohio and was able to conduct her research without the constraints of living in an internment camp. Unfortunately, her siblings and father were not as lucky as her because they were Japanese-American residents of Washington State.
A graduate from University of Cincinnati, Dr. Ruby Hirose was a Japanese-American biochemist and bacteriologist who conducted vaccine research in infantile paralysis. A sufferer herself, Hirose also conducted research in hay fever—which is basically another way of saying “pollen allergies”. She researched a way to improve pollen extracts to desensitize hay fever sufferers.
In addition to her valuable research on the polio vaccine and on hay fever, she also published a paper titled “A Pharaceutical Study of Hydrastis Canadensis” which can be found in full here. In this paper, she chronicles the history of a native North American plant called Hydrastis Canadensis, also known as Goldenseal, and the history of its use. She chronicles how Native Americans first used this plant for dyes and as a way to treat sores and how Lewis and Clark documented this plant during their journey to the west coast. She also tried to find the best conditions in which Hydrastis would grow.
This research is oddly symbolic of her experience during World War II. She was an American born-and-raised just like Hydrastis Canadensis. She found her “best condition for growth” in research in Ohio as this was a place that allowed her to utilize and embrace her gift as a researcher.
Hirose’s talent and work flourished and ultimately made her one of the 10 women who was recognized by the American Chemical Society for her accomplishments in chemistry in 1940. She gave back to America even though fear mongering during wartime did hold back many of her relatives.
She was buried in the Auburn Pioneer Cemetery in Washington state—the very state that sent her family away to an internment camp during the war. In the end, the research she conducted to improve the quality of life for others will live beyond the confines of wartime limitations. Her efforts will continue to inspire others to discover their passion for science.
Article written by: Alexandra McHale
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Sources:
http://siarchives.si.edu/collections/siris_arc_297429
http://www.doublexscience.org/notable-scientists-overlooked/
http://www.themarysue.com/women-in-science-gallery/
http://images.sciencesource.com/preview/14700646/BW3366.html
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jps.3080190409/abstract