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Daring Women (Photos) | 03/06/2009 7:30 am

Women Who Dared: Amelia Earhart, Eleanor Roosevelt, Barbara Walters, Rosa Parks and More (Photos)

In honor of Women’s History Month, wowOwow and the website findingDulcinea.com pay tribute to 15 inspirational women who helped to shape the world in which we live.

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In honor of Women’s History Month, wowOwow.com has teamed up with findingDulcinea.com, a website known as the “Librarian of the Internet,” to recognize women whose actions shattered the status quo. Through guts, grit and unyielding perseverance, these women have made a difference in the way we live today, and raised our expectations for ourselves, our daughters and our granddaughters.

To learn more about any of the women, visit findingDulcinea — the site that scours the Web to find and present the best sites on any topic.
Read more about: Amelia Earhart, Barbara Walters, Billie Jean King, Candice Bergen, Christiane Amanpour, Eleanor Roosevelt, Harriet Beecher Stowe, International Women's Day, Madame CJ Walker, Madeleine Albright, Marie Curie, Melissa Etheridge, News, Politics, Rosa Parks

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Al ias

Lest we forget the pioneers - It was in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York, the dynamic upstate village that became the birthplace of women’s rights, that Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Lucretia Mott, Mary Ann M’Clintock, Jane Hunt, and Martha Wright first called for women to secure their "right to elective franchise." On July 19 and 20 this group, together with 300 women and men, convened in the Wesleyan Methodist Chapel to discuss women’s rights. At the Convention "The Declaration of Sentiments" heralded a list of rights of which women were deprived. This first clarion call – awakening our nation to the struggle for women’s rights – started the suffrage movement.    http://lwvny.org/localLeague/speaker/CommemoratingWomen0806.pdf

By Al ias on 03/07/2009 6:52 pm
Rainbow Power

The list speaks for itself.  Women above the mark.

By Rainbow Power on 03/07/2009 11:05 pm
jules verne
Barbara Walters paved the way for women in the media whether you like it or not.
By jules verne on 03/08/2009 12:25 am
jules verne
Of course women are in all kinds of business now, but they weren’t in anchor positions before Barbara Walters.  Her interviews are fluff, much like Larry King’s.  But she certainly did pave the way for Women in anchor positions.  You must be too young to remember.  As I recall it was Harry Reasoner that they wanted her to co-anchor with.  Someone always has to make the first step through the door, and you may not like her style now, but you can’t deny her that credit.
By jules verne on 03/08/2009 2:27 pm
Donna Taylor
She does deserve credit for the beginning of her career, but to end in such a way doing "The View" deminishes her legacy.  She has really become a joke to a lot of people who admired her.  It is to the point of being pathetically begging for ratings, at any cost!!
By Donna Taylor on 03/13/2009 10:27 am
Murphy Mac

Donna,

I agree with you that Barbara deserves credit for her career. I have to disagree with you about her helping to start The View and staying with it for 10 plus years. I know this program is not everyone’s cup of tea, but lots of people find it entertaining. Whoopi has really helped the show become more solid… has pulled it together and helps the panel stay on topic better. Plus, Whoopi is funny as hell!

I would also like to say that I bought Barbara’s book, Auditions, and if you can, you might check it out. She has a history of being in show business unlike any other celebrity. It all started with her father’s being in the business. Barbara shared information about her mildly retarded sister which is very poignant and moving. Anyway, this is my opinion. 

By Murphy Mac on 03/15/2009 2:06 pm
Murphy Mac

Jules,

You are right, it was Harry Reasoner she was co-anchor with. I like Barbara, but she will be the first to say and has said that Harry did not like her or didn’t like co-anchoring with her.. I don’t remember which. I liked Harry Reasoner back in the day, but don’t know why he couldn’t figure out how to get along with Barbara. I think it changed my mind somewhat about him after that.

By Murphy Mac on 03/15/2009 1:57 pm
jules verne

YOU are right, he did not want her as a co-anchor.  But remember, there had not been a woman co-anchor and he was probably old school.  I would bet that his wife never worked a day in her life and Reasoner just couldn’t reconcile himself to sharing the anchor spot with a woman.  I got Walters’ "Audition" for Christmas and when I finish the four books I have going right now, I am going to read it.

By jules verne on 03/15/2009 5:06 pm
Murphy Mac

Jules, I think you’re right… Reasoner must have been old school… too bad.

As for Audition, I’m having to take it a little at a time. Each chapter has a lot of information. If you’re already reading 4 books, just take your time. You’ve got the book, so it’ll be there for you. Good Reading!

By Murphy Mac on 03/15/2009 5:12 pm
jules verne

It wasn’t his fault.  But if you want to be happy in your job, and get along, you have to accept change. 

I am also back on the treadmill and trying to use my time more wisely to get in shape.  I will never get into a bikini, but I sure would like to finally be able to wear a pair of shorts.  It’s been a long time for that.  Yeah, good thing about those books, you can wipe off the dust when you finally get to them.  I bought a Kindle from Amazon and I am going back and forth with real books versus downloaded books.  It’s fun.

By jules verne on 03/16/2009 10:16 pm
Dona Howlett

Being a young mother in the 50’s I love looking back and seeing the wonderful things progressive thinking woman have opened for us.

Yes, I also agree that Barbara Walters opened the door for women in Television.

I look at our new First Lady and think, Years from now she will be among a list of Great Ladies.

By Dona Howlett on 03/08/2009 1:49 am
Dona Howlett
I forgot……..I wanted to thank someone for the link to Dulcinea…….This site is going to give me so much pleasure reading.
By Dona Howlett on 03/08/2009 1:50 am
Mary Mooney

Dona, I agree about Dulcinea as a rare source of pleasure reading on the Web; I’ve found some real gems on it this week.

This "Secret Lives of Writers’ Wives" is brilliant:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features/feature-articles/2008/july/Liter…

And I could live forever inside the "Happy Birthday" feature:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/features.html?topic=%2Fcategories%2FHappy…

By Mary Mooney on 03/10/2009 11:46 am
JUDITH FORD

SORRY ABOUT THE ALL CAPS BUT I DO NOT TYPE.BUT THAT DOESNT MEAN I DONT THINK.

HOW ABOUT JACKIE COCHRAN SHE BROKE THE SPEED OF SOUND TWICE AND HAS A REAL ALL AMERICAN COME FROM BEHIND STORY,A REAL FEMALE PIONEER.SHE ACTUALLY ACCOMPLISHED MORE THAN AMELIA .I ONLY LEARNED OF HER FEATS WHEN I VOLUNTEERED TO BE A DOCENT AT OUR LOCAL MUSEUM IN INDIO,CA.IT WAS THE YEAR OF JACKIE COCHRAN, WHAT A GAL.

By JUDITH FORD on 03/10/2009 8:05 pm
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