Louise Bernikow, Author at Women's eNews

New Deal Slighted Women in Recovery Plans

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● February 2, 2009

1933: Roosevelt’s New Deal didn’t provide full relief for women.

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● December 29, 2008

Dec. 30, 1936: The Women’s Auxiliary took their rolling pins to the front lines of the Flint sit-down strike.

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● December 1, 2008

Dec. 8, 1977: Rosalyn Yalow is awarded the Nobel Prize in physiology or medicine.

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● October 31, 2008

Nov. 7, 1871: New York women, determined to vote, confront election officials.

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● September 30, 2008

Oct. 21, 1974: Inez Garcia is convicted of killing her rapist.

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● August 29, 2008

Sept. 11th – 19th, 1893: Chicago World’s Fair shows some–but not all–women in the public sphere on a large scale.

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● August 1, 2008

August 26, 1968: Fannie Lou Hamer takes her seat at the Democratic National Convention.

July 3, 1997: Poet Adrienne Rich refuses National Medal of the Arts.

Summer 1967: Female activists help push rising opposition to the Vietnam War and campaigned door-to-door.

May 12, 1857: Elizabeth Blackwell opens the New York Infirmary for Women and Children.