03-18-95 Women of Achievement and Herstory "mueller@iwf.bepr.ethz.ch" sent the following which she/he says is from Stephen Pile's _The Book of Heroic Failures (1979) ISBN 0-7088-1909-7 regarding the least successful equal pay advertisement: "In 1976 the European economic community [now European union] pointed out to the Irish government that it had not yet implemented the agreed sexual equality legislation. The Dublin government immediately advertised for an equal pay enforcement officer. The advertisement offered different salary scales for men and women." ....................... * ........................ (Belated) Event 03-15-1995, the first ever Associated Press women's all American basketball team was announced. Getting an unanimous vote was Connecticut's Rebecca Lobo, a 4.0 grade-point average student who is also 6"4" and averages 17.3 points, 10.3 rebounds, 3.8 assists and 3.4 blocks. Others chosen were Shelley Sheetz of Colorado, Nikki McCray of Tennessee, Charlotte Smith of North Carolina, and Niesa Johnson of Alabama. Smith, you may remember (as if any of us will EVER forget) was the young woman who calmly shot the three-pointer at the bell to give her team a 60- 59 win for the national championship. And Smith changed women's basketball forever because now girls in high school, having seen that a woman CAN do it, are regularly shooting the three-pointers. Smith also dunks, the first woman in ten years to dunk in a game. North Carolina coach Sylvia Hatchell encourages her women to do what women aren't taught to do by men coaches. Connecticut coach Geno Auriemma talked *not* about Lobo's outstanding athletic ability but her (feminine?) unselfishness. Siigghh. 03-19 Anniversaries ........................................... B. 03-19-1844, Minna Canth, Finnish playwright, fiction writer, and essayist. Advocate for women's rights. B. 03-19-1881, Edith Nourse Roger, elected US Representative from Massachusetts in 1925, served longer than any other woman in the US Congress. The first woman to have her name attached to a piece of major legislation, sponsored bill to create women's army auxiliary corps with equal pay on a scale similar to that of the regular army men. B. 03-19-1947, Glenn Close, stage and screen actor, Tony award for her work in _The Real Thing_, and several Academy Award nominations. She will undoubtedly be nominated for an Emmy for her recent TV movie portrayal of Col. Margarethe Cammermeyer in _Serving in Silence_. Event 03-19-1975, by unanimous decision the U.S. Supreme Court invalidates a Social Security law which gave survivors benefits to women but did not give them to men under. Quotes du jour ........................................... "Confusion of progeny constitutes the essence of the crime (adultery); and therefore a woman who breaks her marriage vows is much more criminal than a man who does it. A man, to be sure, is criminal in the sight of God; but he does not do his wife a very material injury if he does not insult her if, for instance, from mere wantonness of appetite, he steals privately to her chambermaid. Sir, a wife ought not greatly to resent this. I would not receive home a daughter who had run away from her husband on that account." -- Boswell's Life of Johnson, 1791 "Masculine ethics, colored by masculine instincts, always dominated by sex, has at once recognize the value of chastity in woman, which is right; punished its absence unfairly, which is wrong; and then reversed the whole matter when applied to men, which is ridiculous." -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman, 1911 (C) 1995 Irene Stuber, PO Box 6185, Hot Springs National Park, AR 71902, irenestuber@delphi.com. Distribute verbatim copies freely with copyright notice for non-profit use. Don't let anyone tell you there weren't notable and effective women throughout history. They were always there, but historians failed to note them in our histories so that each generation of women has had to reinvent themselves.