Women's History Sources is a collaborative blog that serves as a current awareness tool for anyone who is interested in primary sources at archives, historic sites and museums, and libraries. Some of the types of sources that the blog covers:
* New exhibits in archives, libraries, and museums
* New digital collections (artifacts, diaries, oral histories, photos, etc.)
* Featured objects/documents from other blogs and websites
* "In the News" - stories that feature original documents or artifacts.
* "On this Day" - digital resources that are related to an event on a specific date.
* Recent books that include letters, diaries, photographs, etc.
Audience
1. Archivists, Librarians, and Museum curators/personnel
2. Historians
3. College students
4. K-12 Teachers
5. General public with an interest in women's history
Geographic Coverage
Although the initial emphasis has been on women in United States history, the blog will become international in scope as the list of contributors grows.
Contributors
The blog will include archivists, historians, librarians, and museum professionals. Please contact Ken Middleton (ken.middlet@gmail.com) if you are interested in being a blog contributor.
“If we want to actually reduce the number of divorces, we need to make divorce less appealing to women.”(Davidson). What Davidson is expressing is that women are attracted to divorce. Marriage was once a partnership. “A person doesn’t cling to what they do not need. Therefore a woman will not cling to a man who is not needed.”(Feldman) Feldmon forwards Davidson’s thought, but it adds to it. Marriage is hard enough. If a the partner is not needed why would either party wish to go through the difficulties. “The origins of marriage was a simple set up, the man worked, the woman did not.”(Hendrix) Hendrix continues to expand on a common thought of partnership. Hendrix shows that originally that marriage partners were dependent on each other. The woman was dependent on the man for money and the man dependent on the woman for the upkeep of the house. Was it the best system? Possibly. Couples stuck together back then. They fought tooth and nail to keep their marriage strong and did what was best for the family. However, no one disagrees with women becoming part of the work force. “We need to find a middle ground”(Cochrane). Cochrane is speaking on the terms of interdependence. She is saying that there has to be a middle ground between the powers.
Share with anyone who might want to learn something new before this next election cycle has come to a close. Great content for teachers in many disciplines to understand and teach around the historical and present constructions of gender in varied fields and by many different people across time. Stories of women who have accomplished many things you likely haven't heard previously.
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The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that exposure to
smoke from the simple act of cooking is the fifth worst risk factor for disease
in developing countries, and causes almost two million premature deaths per year
– exceeding deaths attributable to malaria or tuberculosis.
Women in developing countries are also at risk of head and spinal injuries,
pregnancy complications, and maternal mortality from the strenuous task of
carrying heavy loads of firewood or other fuels. Frequent exposure to cookstove
smoke can also cause disabling health impacts like cataracts, which affect women
more than men, and is the leading cause of blindness in developing countries.
Rudimentary wood-fired cookstoves and open fires emit fine particles, carbon
monoxide, and other pollutants at levels up to 100 times higher than the
recommended limits set by WHO
A randomized-control study in Guatemala led by the University of California,
Berkeley, found that halving exposure to indoor air pollution with a chimney
stove brought about a reduction in severe pneumonia, and that larger reductions
in exposure had more pronounced effects. A systematic review of all available
studies on the link between solid fuel use and child pneumonia has found an
almost doubling of risk for those exposed.
Burns from open fires and unsafe cookstoves are another insidious risk faced by
poor households dependent on kerosene, open fires, and unstable metal or clay
cookstoves, contributing to a substantial percentage of the estimated 300,000
burn deaths that occur annually
While the link between exposure to cookstove smoke and a wide range of health
problems such as pneumonia, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung
cancer is well established, the current body of evidence linking cookstoves with
other potentially important health effects is compelling but less documented
Nearly all of the existing evidence is based on observational studies that
compare groups using open fires and traditional cookstoves with those using
cleaner fuels, with very little being directly obtained from studies that
directly measure the effects of interventions.
More evidence is needed to demonstrate that the levels of exposure reduction
delivered by clean cookstove and fuels will result in declines in related
illnesses and deaths.
This is the Global alliance for Clean Cookstoves website. They offer much information about the issues surrounding the topic and their action plan for affecting change!
There are keynote speakers—often the people who created the technology at hand or crafted a given language. There are the regular speakers, often paid not at all or in airfare, who present some idea or technique or approach. Then there are the panels, where a group of people are lined up in a row and forced into some semblance of interaction while the audience checks its e-mail.
Fewer than a fifth of undergraduate degrees in computer science awarded in 2012 went to women, according to the National Center for Women & Information Technology
The average programmer is moderately diligent, capable of basic mathematics, has a working knowledge of one or more programming languages, and can communicate what he or she is doing to management and his or her peers
The true measure of a language isn’t how it uses semicolons; it’s the standard library of each language. A language is software for making software. The standard library is a set of premade software that you can reuse and reapply.
A coder needs to be able to quickly examine and identify which giant, complex library is the one that’s the most recently and actively updated and the best match for his or her current needs. A coder needs to be a good listener.
Code isn’t just obscure commands in a file. It requires you to have a map in your head, to know where the good libraries, the best documentation, and the most helpful message boards are located. If you don’t know where those things are, you will spend all of your time searching, instead of building cool new things.
Some tools are better for certain jobs.
C is a simple language, simple like a shotgun that can blow off your foot. It allows you to manage every last part of a computer—the memory, files, a hard drive—which is great if you’re meticulous and dangerous if you’re sloppy
Object-oriented programming is, at its essence, a filing system for code.
Where C tried to make it easier to do computer things, Smalltalk tried to make it easier to do human things.
Style and usage matter; sometimes programmers recommend Strunk & White’s The Elements of Style—that’s right, the one about the English language. Its focus on efficient usage resonates with programmers. The idiom of a language is part of its communal identity.
Coding is a culture of blurters.
Programmers carve out a sliver of cognitive territory for themselves and go to conferences, and yet they know their position is vulnerable.
Programmers are often angry because they’re often scared.
Programming is a task that rewards intense focus and can be done with a small group or even in isolation.
For a truly gifted programmer, writing code is a side effect of thought
As a class, programmers are easily bored, love novelty, and are obsessed with various forms of productivity enhancement.
“Most programming languages are partly a way of expressing things in terms of other things and partly a basic set of given things.”
Of course, while we were trying to build a bookstore, we actually built the death of bookstores—that seems to happen a lot in the business. You set out to do something cool and end up destroying lots of things that came before.
Wonderful collection of short profiles of women working in STEM or CTE fields. Share with your students because female role models inspire girls to see their futures differently.
Open Meadows Foundation is a grant-making organization seeking projects that promote gender/racial/economic justice. The projects must be led by and benefit women and girls, particularly those from vulnerable communities.
What do you think the author means in the highlighted text "but how we view something of the past is largely due to our own past and present experiences"?
Secondly, but along the same lines as the above explanation, is that the people writing history change as well
The social changes of the 1960s and 1970s brought many women historians into what had largely been a male dominated field and introduced new perspectives and told new stories that had previously been undiscovered (unfortunately, due to lack a of male interest) or ignored (unfortunately, due to a lack of male interest).
What new perspective could women bring to the study of history? Why would it be different then a mans perspective?
History was once written largely only through limited primary sources; letters, journals, diaries, and newspapers, and of course, secondary sources-what others had already written. But historians not so long ago began to "think outside the box," and by using sources such as estate
inventories, court documents, and even oral histories, these historians opened up a world of new information.
Locating new information of course changed how we saw events of the past, and only naturally new interpretations developed...and in this way one could say history changed.
Lastly, and related to the third, is that the availability of research sources have changed...largely through technology
All of this makes researching much easier and much less frustrating for the historian, and it allows him or her more time to make critical decisions, and to explore avenues that would not otherwise be considered.
Attracting females is key to the future of computer science, Rodger says. In 2008, only 11.8 percent of U.S. bachelor's degrees in computer science went to women, according to the Computing Research Association. And Duke's showing is hardly better, said Rodger, who is trying to turn that around by making programming fun to learn.
The research on KY women's history by University of Kentucky students and our Open Knowledge Initiative are highlighted on this list of resources! Yahoo!
Food and grocery stores definitely plays an important role in this community. There were also an unexpected amount of African art and music stores. I think diaspora communities like this have a lot of meeting and community aid establishments to help immigrants navigate the American system of living.
I honestly didn’t see too many advertisements outside of the West African diaspora context. The ads that I did see were not billboards or real advertisements. There were mostly posters or small signs showcasing the sales in each of the stores.
As a native New Yorker, who grew up in an Indian diaspora community, I felt like a lot of the sights resonated with my childhood. And to make things even more familair, I lived in Niger for a few months and did feel a certain connection to the area.
I also didn’t see that many women walking around, it was mostly men who were hanging around local hot spots. The women that I did see, were going somewhere specific and not really hanging out outside.
a complicated and emotional question has arisen: has cheerleading become a true sport?
For many women
especially those who worked at the forefront of the push for equality in college sports, the answer for a long time was no
endorsing an embarrassing holdover from a time when girls in tight-fitting outfits were expected to do little more than yell support for boys
skeptical of high schools and universities that counted female cheerleaders as athletes as a way to evade their obligation to provide opportunities for women in more traditional sports, like softball and soccer
Why should cheerleading not be considered a sport when it required a complex set of technical skills, physical fitness and real guts?