On this day in history, Republican Jeannette Rankin took her seat as the first woman in Congress; 100 years later and women make up 51% of the U.S. population and 19% of the U.S. Congress.
Some pretty great things happened on this day in history.
AG Jeff Sessions isn’t the only member of Trump’s campaign who spoke to Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak at a diplomacy conference connected to the Republican National Convention in July. http://usat.ly/2mgstEH
Jane Fonda: ‘I’ve been raped, I’ve been sexually abused as a child’
Every time you think Jane Fonda is finally past making headlines, she surprises you: On Thursday, the headlines about her around the internet read: “I’ve been raped.”
This happened in her youth (she just turned 79) and apparently she’s never talked about it publicly before. The Oscar-winning daughter of Oscar-winning Henry Fonda also revealed she was sexually abused as a child, and that she was once fired from a job for refusing to sleep with her boss.
All this came out in an interview Fonda did with Oscar-winning Brie Larson in Net-a-Porter’s The Edit, in which the two discussed feminism, the women’s movement, physical fitness, sexual violence, celebrity political activism, her regrets (she wishes she had been a better parent), her recently rejuvenated career (Netflix’ Grace and Frankie), and “patriarchy.”
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I have decided to recuse myself from any existing or future investigation of matters related in any way to the campaigns for president of the United States.
Don’t give up! Legendary writer and illustrator #DrSeuss, who was born on this day in 1904, believed in you.
Karen Carpenter was born on this day. The three-time Grammy-award winning singer and drummer brought attention to eating disorders, which affect 20 million women in the U.S.
Out West, the snow is so deep that scientists don't have any tools to measure it
It’s a problem that cropped up Wednesday when researchers sought to confirm snow depth at a data site on Slide Mountain at Mount Rose Ski Tahoe near Reno.
“We’re not even close,” hydrologist Jeff Anderson said after jamming an aluminum tube more than 16 feet into the snowpack hoping to reach the ground below.
The snow-measuring snafu provided real life confirmation of what scientific instruments on the site already showed.
These words of wisdom from famous women still ring true today
In honor of Women’s History Month, we’ve rounded up some of the best, most famous, most still-relevant quotes by the wisest women in the world, young and old, living and dead.
Cherry blossoms begin to bloom before the Washington Monument in Washington, D.C.
(Photo: Maria Yliquin, @yourtake)
