11-08-94 Women of Achievement and Herstory B. 11-08-1897, Dorothy Day, helped found the Catholic Worker movement and organized houses for the handicapped and hungry. Her conversion from free-love and socialism to Roman Catholic activist is described in _From Union Square to Rome_(1938). During the Viet Nam conflict she supported and aided those who refused military service. B. 11-08-1900, Margaret Mitchell, winner of 1937 Pulitzer Prize for _Gone with the Wind_, her only novel. She had been a newspaper reporter for a short period in the 1920's. B. 11-08-1907, Katherine Hepburn, actor Academy Awards for _Morning Glory_ (1932), _Guess Who's Coming to Dinner?_ (1967), _The Lion in Winter_ (1968) and _On Golden Pond_ (1981). Nominated eight more times for her work in such movies as _The Philadelphia Story_ (1940), and _The African Queen_ (1951). A national treasure. Many more Kate. Event 11-08-1910, a constitutional amendment to extend suffrage to women is passed in the State of Washington. B. 11-08-1933, Esther Rolle, actor. Event 11-08-1938, Crystal Bird Fauset, elected to the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, the first black woman legislator in America. B. 11-08-1949, Bonnie Raitt, singer, songwriter. Grammy award winner. Her mother was a pianist. Event 11-08-1967, President Lyndon Johnson signed a new law which gave women in the military equal promotion and retirement and removed the two percent restriction on the number of women allowed into the military. Event 11-08-1984, physician Dr. Anna L. Fisher, is the third American woman astronaut in space and the first mother. Event 11-08-1990, the Gender Gap at the voting booth succeeded in electing Ann Richards as Texas Governor (with 61% of the women's vote) and Barbara Roberts as Oregon Governor with 30% more of the women's vote than her opponent got. Sharon Pratt Dixon was elected the first black woman to head the Washington, DC government. Joan Finney who opposes abortion was elected governor of Kansas. Of 85 women who ran for statewide offices, 57 won...all with significant Gender Gap margins... AND YET THE MEDIA IN 1994 HAS CONCENTRATED ON EVERY POSSIBLE ETHNIC, RACIAL, AND GEOGRAPHICAL PREJUDICE OR BIAS TO PREDICT ELECTIONS - NEVER MENTIONING WOMEN AS A BLOCK OF VOTERS. Makes you wonder about the "non-bias" of the media and newsprint boys today...or are they trying to keep the secret from women that they at 53% of the electorate hold the power in their hands? Quotes du jour -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- "Being a housewife and a mother is the biggest job in the world, but if it doesn't interest you, don't do it. It didn't interest me, so I didn't do it. Anyway, I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him." --Katharine Hepburn in a _People_ magazine interview. (C) 1994 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.