Louise Bernikow, Author at Women's eNews

December 1872, Women Told to Take It Easy

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● December 1, 2004

December 16, 1872: Dr. Edward Clarke Tells Women To Take It Easy

Night of Terror Leads to Women’s Vote in 1917

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● October 30, 2004

November 14, 1917: “Night of Terror” So Women Can Vote

Feminists Protest Spock’s Sex Bias

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● October 1, 2004

October 1969: Feminists Spank Spock

Nellie Bly: Undercover, Investigative Journalist

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● September 2, 2004

September 26, 1887: Nellie Bly goes crazy to get the story.

First Known Victim of ‘Typhoid Mary’ Falls Ill

By Louise Bernikow ● Uncategorized ● July 30, 2004

The Irish cook for “good families” is held in isolation for a quarter of a century, blamed with spreading typhoid, although male carriers of the sometimes-fatal disease apparently escaped similar fates.

Women’s Ingenuity Displayed at Centennial Fair

By Louise Bernikow ● Arts & Culture ● June 30, 2004

July 4, 1876. Female Ingenuity and the American Centennial: For the 1876 Centennial celebration in Philadelphia, Benjamin Franklin’s granddaughter Elizabeth Duane Gillespie organized a pavilion to showcase American women’s know-how.