This short biography highlights the achievements of Mary McLeod Bethune who started a college for black women in Florida, organized the National Council for Negro Women, and advised President Franklin D. Roosevelt. (LZ)

Leta Stetter Hollingworth is introduced as the first researcher to study giftedness in girls and women and as a woman who overcame deep-set prejudices against gifts and talents in women, who discredited claims of the natural inferiority of women, and who devised clever experiments to test her hypotheses. (JDD)

This article offers suggestions for using biographies of famous women aviators with gifted students. Aviators suggested include Ruth Law, Jacqueline Cochran, Bessie Coleman, Beryl Markham, and Amelia Earhart. Teaching suggestions include creative book sharing, integration with map work, and student projects based on these lives. (Contains…

Grace Abbott's courageous struggles--to protect the rights of immigrants, to increase the role of women in government, and to improve the lives of all children--are filled with adventurous tales of the remarkable human ability to seek out suffering and to do something about it. "A Prairie Childhood" is an excerpt from the Grace Abbott biography…

Purpose: This paper discusses insights from a study of women working, or seeking or preparing for work, in the information technology (IT) field. At issue is how and whether alternative career pathways and informally acquired skills and knowledge, as well as the operation of gender in learning and work, are acknowledged by employers, colleagues…

This updated second edition provides comprehensive and current information on women in sports, detailing the history, biography, bibliography, and statistics of female professional and amateur athletes. The book is divided into 4 parts with 6 chapters. Part 1, History of Women's Sports, presents: (1) Women in American Sports and (2) Women in the…

The purpose of this essay and bibliography is to present a review of criticism of poet Charlotte Mew. The essay synthesizes the salient critical comments under the topics of historical context, language, obscurity, biography, distancing, religion and philosophy, technique, and male/female issues. It draws conclusions as to the comprehensiveness of…

A Cerebral palsied woman offers a brief biographical sketch which focuses on the emotional aspects of her childhood, adolescence and young adulthood. (GW)

This module contains representative examples of native Puerto Rican men and women who have gained distinction in Puerto Rico. Following a pre- and postassessment test and list of learning alternatives are narratives presenting a brief biography of 27 Puerto Ricans. (MJM)

Suggests ways of studying women's biographies so as to provide young girls with appropriate role models. (DD)

Chronicles the personal and professional life of Nike Twins Seven Seven (born 1951), a Nigerian batik artist, and her husband, Twins Seven Seven, a musician-artist, both of whom have received international acclaim. (BJV)

Gives a profile of Anna Mae Picton Squash, an Indian woman devoted to the service of the Indian people and Reports on her tragic death. (AM)

This collection of biographical articles presents several issues concerning story of women working in the social studies placing it within a broad intellectual and social context. Following the "Preface" (M. S. Crocco), the collection is divided into five chronological sections. The first section entitled, "Conceptualizing Social…

The feats of individuals who have made history in the aerospace world are often misunderstood and soon ignored or forgotten after the first notoriety has been achieved. Amelia Earhart was selected as the subject for this learning packet because of her brilliant accomplishments on the world of flight, a persistent desire to determine what really…

Draws on the themes in Rainer Maria Rilke's "Buch der Bilder" ("The Book of Pictures") to show the similarity between the maturation of young girls and the poet's development as an artist. (DS)