21 cents
America Needs Nasty Women - bumper sticker in Iowa
In 2017, women have marched, put on pink hats, worn white clothes, raised fists high in the air and let their views be known. And if anyone was still confused about the message, t shirts were worn to explain exactly what women are thinking. The shirts' slogans have been as simple as "Believe" or as poignant as "We the People." Other straightforward ideas - "She Persisted," "The Future is Female" or "A Woman's Place is in the Resistance." But the message on a shirt that has bothered me the most for the past weeks:
21 cents.
At the current rate, the American gender pay gap won't be closed until 2059, according to Rep. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY) writing in the Huffington Post. "Women today are paid just 79 cents for every dollar earned by a man," she said. "Women are often outearned by men with less education. Women with a graduate degree have median annual earnings that are $5000 less than those of men with a bachelor's degree."
A warm thank you to the women who comfort us, feed us, tell us stories. Thank you to women who check our blood pressure, rotate our tires, and make us laugh. Thank you to our mothers, sisters and cousins. Thank you to our female journalists, teachers, writers, artists, social workers, accountants, engineers, athletes, pilots, doctors, nurses, singers, politicians and soldiers. Thank you to women working behind a counter, on roadways and in parks, and with heavy equipment. Thank you to women working two or three jobs, attending school, raising children.
21 cents.
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"She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted." --Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY) speaking about Sen. Elizabeth Warren (D-MA)
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Celebrate Women's History Month (every month!) and read a book by or about some very outspoken women.
Personal History - Katharine Graham
To Space and Back - Sally Ride
Madame Curie - Eve Curie
Victoria: The Queen - Julia Baird
The Feminine Mystique - Betty Friedan
My Own Words - Ruth Bader Ginsburg
Shrill - Lindy West
Twenty Years at Hull House - Jane Addams
Lucretia Mott Speaks - Lucretia Mott
A Midwife's Tale - Laurel Thatcher Ulrich
Cleopatra - Stacy Schiff
Madam Secretary - Madeleine Albright
Majesty of the Law - Sandra Day O'Connor
On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C.J. Walker - A'Lelia Bundles
My Life on the Road - Gloria Steinem
Gender Gap - Bella Abzug
Bad Feminist - Roxane Gay
All in a Day's Work - Ida Tarbell
Hidden Figures - Margot Lee Shetterly
Women's Slave Narratives - Annie L. Burton
The Long Loneliness - Dorothy Day
Silent Spring - Rachel Carson
Dust Tracks on a Road - Zora Neale Hurston
The Widow Cliquot - Tilar J. Mazzeo
My Life, My Love, My Legacy - Coretta Scott King
America's Women: 400 Years of Dolls, Drudges, Helpmates and Heroines
When Everything Changed : The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to Present - both by Gail Collins
"And to all the little girls...never doubt that you are valuable and powerful and deserving of every chance and opportunity in the world to pursue and achieve your dreams." --Hillary Rodham Clinton, 2016
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Sunday, March 12, 2017
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
March into Reading
Charles Dickens: "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade." from Great Expectations
No one who has grown up in the last 50 years can imagine their childhood without the wonderfully zany images and poetically comic verses of Theodor Seuss Geisel, according to the Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield, MA.
Would any of us want to live in a world without Thing One or Two, Cat in the Hat, Horton, Yertle or even the Grinch? I think not.
Dr. Seuss (then known as Theodor Geisel) was born March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. A biography, Children's Storytellers/ Dr. Seuss, by Kari Schuetz shares these interesting facts:
> As a child, Ted enjoyed reading comics, especially Krazy Kat.
> He attended two prestigious schools - Dartmouth College and Oxford University. While editing the Dartmouth College magazine, Ted first used the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.
> After college, he drew political cartoons.
> His first published book (1937) was And To Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His later book (1960) Green Eggs and Ham (a personal favorite) has only 50 words.
> Dr. Seuss' personal beliefs are often found in his books. For example, in The Lorax, he stressed the importance of caring about nature.
> In 1984, Dr. Seuss won a special Pulitzer Prize for his effect on reading.
> Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991.
> What Pet Should I Get? was published in 2015 after his wife discovered the manuscript in a box.
Celebrate all things Dr. Seuss on March 2.
Other celebrations in March: Irish-American Heritage Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month, National Craft Month, Small Press Month and Women's History Month.
Enjoy new books by J.K. Rowling, Joan Didion, James Patterson, Lisa See, Peter Heller, Greg Iles, Dan Chaon, C.J. Box, Jacqueline Winspear, Clive Cussler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Sid Luft, and Melissa Maker who will help us clean and love our houses in time for spring.
March Days
1-7 National Ghostwriters' Week
1-7 National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week
2 Dr. Seuss Day
World Book Day
4 World Grammar Day
5-11 National Words Matter Week
Return Borrowed Books Week
6 Oreo Cookie Day
8 Womens' Day
Girls Write Now
National Proofreading Day
10 Middle Name Pride Day (to my sisters & cousins - let's applaud being Anns)
11 Genealogy Day
13 Napping Day (curl up with The Napping House by Audrey & Don Wood)
14 Pi Day 3.14159265...
15 Ides of March - beware
16 Freedom of Information Day
17 St. Patrick's Day
19-25 World Folktales & Fables Week
20 World Storytelling Day
20-26 Act Happy Week
21 National Common Courtesy Day
24-26 American Crosswords Puzzles Week
25 Tolkien Reading Day - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
29 Manatee Appreciation Day
30 Pencil Day (check out Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax)
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr. Seuss
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Charles Dickens: "It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold; when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade." from Great Expectations
No one who has grown up in the last 50 years can imagine their childhood without the wonderfully zany images and poetically comic verses of Theodor Seuss Geisel, according to the Dr. Seuss Museum in Springfield, MA.
Would any of us want to live in a world without Thing One or Two, Cat in the Hat, Horton, Yertle or even the Grinch? I think not.
Dr. Seuss (then known as Theodor Geisel) was born March 2, 1904 in Springfield, Massachusetts. A biography, Children's Storytellers/ Dr. Seuss, by Kari Schuetz shares these interesting facts:
> As a child, Ted enjoyed reading comics, especially Krazy Kat.
> He attended two prestigious schools - Dartmouth College and Oxford University. While editing the Dartmouth College magazine, Ted first used the pseudonym Dr. Seuss.
> After college, he drew political cartoons.
> His first published book (1937) was And To Think I Saw It on Mulberry Street. His later book (1960) Green Eggs and Ham (a personal favorite) has only 50 words.
> Dr. Seuss' personal beliefs are often found in his books. For example, in The Lorax, he stressed the importance of caring about nature.
> In 1984, Dr. Seuss won a special Pulitzer Prize for his effect on reading.
> Dr. Seuss died on September 24, 1991.
> What Pet Should I Get? was published in 2015 after his wife discovered the manuscript in a box.
Celebrate all things Dr. Seuss on March 2.
Other celebrations in March: Irish-American Heritage Month, Music in Our Schools Month, Expanding Girls' Horizons in Science & Engineering Month, National Craft Month, Small Press Month and Women's History Month.
Enjoy new books by J.K. Rowling, Joan Didion, James Patterson, Lisa See, Peter Heller, Greg Iles, Dan Chaon, C.J. Box, Jacqueline Winspear, Clive Cussler, Kim Stanley Robinson, Lisa Feldman Barrett, Sid Luft, and Melissa Maker who will help us clean and love our houses in time for spring.
March Days
1-7 National Ghostwriters' Week
1-7 National Write a Letter of Appreciation Week
2 Dr. Seuss Day
World Book Day
4 World Grammar Day
5-11 National Words Matter Week
Return Borrowed Books Week
6 Oreo Cookie Day
8 Womens' Day
Girls Write Now
National Proofreading Day
10 Middle Name Pride Day (to my sisters & cousins - let's applaud being Anns)
11 Genealogy Day
13 Napping Day (curl up with The Napping House by Audrey & Don Wood)
14 Pi Day 3.14159265...
15 Ides of March - beware
16 Freedom of Information Day
17 St. Patrick's Day
19-25 World Folktales & Fables Week
20 World Storytelling Day
20-26 Act Happy Week
21 National Common Courtesy Day
24-26 American Crosswords Puzzles Week
25 Tolkien Reading Day - Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit
29 Manatee Appreciation Day
30 Pencil Day (check out Revenge of Analog: Real Things and Why They Matter by David Sax)
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"Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not." Dr. Seuss
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