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According to NPR:
Air Force Gen. Lori Robinson has been nominated as the next head of U.S. Northern Command, Defense Secretary Ash Carter announced Friday. If approved, she would be the first female head of a combatant command.
Few women ran and few women voted during the elections, but many in the country see the victories as a turning point for women's rights.
“Salema bint Hizab al-Otaibi was running against seven men and two women and won a spot representing Madrakah, a small village just north of Mecca.”
Sophia Danenberg was the first black woman to climb Mount Everest, the tallest mountain in the world. She reached its summit at 7 a.m. on May 19, 2006.
Danenberg grew up in Chicago and lives in Connecticut, where she works on helping jet engines comply with environmental regulations. Her father is black and her mother is Japanese.
"There aren't a lot of African-Americans--or black people from anywhere, American or otherwise--in high-altitude mountaineering," she told the Chicago Reader.
[Image source: Flickr/Rupert Taylor-Price]
“For decades, the first ladies exhibition has been one of the most popular attractions at the Smithsonian Institution. I…
“I don’t like that the fashion decisions of the first ladies define their place in history, but at least the exhibit would leave room for visitors to conclude first ladies had other contributions. Because, the fact is, they did.”
Dame of the Day: Danah Al-Nasrallah
Today’s Dame of the Day is Danah Al-Nasrallah (March 7, 1988-). In 2004, Al-Nasrallah became the first Kuwaiti woman to compete in the Olympic games; she represented her country as a track and field competitor. Today, she continues her involvement in the running community as an assistant cross country coach in Ann Arbor, Michigan.
The women who run the shops cover their heads, and many of them believe it is a man’s responsibility to pay bills for the family. Yet they prize entrepreneurship.
The owner of Karmel Square, Basim Sabri, barged through the maze of corridors spilling over with dresses, shoes and fabric, and proudly announced the owner’s gender at each shop he passed.
“Woman, woman, woman, woman, woman!” Sabri said.
Captain Kristen Griest, 26, and first lieutenant Shaye Haver, 25, become the first women to graduate from the U.S. Army Ranger school, an elite force in the military.
The two women graduating from the Army’s Ranger School on Friday are the latest in a long line of pioneers who expanded the military’s definition of women’s work.
Kick-ass ladies!
Reformers of the 19th century warned that taking a tea break would steer Irish peasant women to thoughts of revolutionary feminism.
Radical ladies and their radical tea breaks.
The dozens of women who are powering New Horizons to a history-making July 14 flyby of Pluto look forward to the day when the conversation about gender becomes irrelevant.
Meet the amazing women behind NASA’s exiting mission.
Meet the women behind the New Horizons mission
On July 14, we're going to see a new planet up close when NASA's New Horizons mission finally makes it to Pluto. These are the brilliant women who made it happen.
Science Editor-in-Chief Marcia McNutt stands to be elected the first woman to lead the National Academy of Sciences (NAS), an organization first founded in 1863. "I am immensely honored to be asked by the Academy's Council to stand for election to the Presidency of the National Academy of Sciences, an organization that represents the highest standards of scientific honesty, quality, and integrity," McNutt said in a statement. She was also the first woman to serve as editor-in-chief of the journal Science. McNutt has led the U.S. Geological Survey and the the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute, as well as served a professor of geophysics at Stanford University. The formal election will take place on January 31, 2016.
Misty Copeland becomes the first black principal dancer of the American Ballet Theater
History is beautiful.Congrats @Mistyonpointe, on being named American Ballet Theatre Principal. #IWILLWHATIWANT pic.twitter.com/PnxDM4BDEo
— Under Armour Women (@UAWomen) June 30, 2015
At 30, Rep. Elise Stefanik (R-NY) is the youngest woman ever elected to Congress. [The Hill]
A woman will be featured on the new $10 bill. Here are five amazing options. [ThinkProgress]
Today in history: Legendary pilot Amelia Earhart flew the Atlantic. [NYTimes]
A new expedition organized by “The Earhart Project” hopes to finally solve the mystery of what happened to the barrier-breaking pilot. [NBC News]
32 years today!
