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The United States of Dolly Parton | The New Yorker (www.newyorker.com)

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‘Miss Marx’ Film: Who Was Eleanor Marx, Daughter Of Karl Marx? - HistoryExtra (www.historyextra.com)

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The History of Hysterectomies: A Tale of the U.S. Practice of Eugenics (lawprofessors.typepad.com)

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Lesson Plan: Feminist Philosophers of the 20th Century

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Digital Classroom Resources from the Women's History Museum (U.S. based)

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Katherine Switzer Ran Boston Marathon Even Though It Was Forbidden (mymodernmet.com)

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The Complicated Camera of Filmmaker Shirley Clarke

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Sexually explicit memoir of women's abuse in Nazi camps finally sees the light | The Times of Israel (www.timesofisrael.com)

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The history of art is full of female masters. It's time they were taken seriously | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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"She had a remarkable career": Kerala High Court remembers former Chief Justice KK Usha, who passed on October 5th | 07 OCT 2020 (www.barandbench.com)

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A Black woman invented GPS technology (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Remembering Nellie Bly, Rabblerouser and Pioneer of Investigative Journalism (getpocket.com)

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The Senator Who Stood Up to Joseph McCarthy When No One Else Would (getpocket.com)

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Inside the Stories of the Most Daring Women Spies of World War II (time.com)

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A Witty and Refreshingly Feminist Look at Artemisia Gentileschi (hyperallergic.com)

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The Architect of Modern Algorithms - Barbara Liskov (getpocket.com)

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TWO women win the 2020 Nobel Prize for Chemistry!!

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Emily Wilding Davison: Original Women's Lib Martyr, Publicist Extraordinaire - Brazen She (www.brazenshe.com)

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Josephine Cochran, inventor of the automatic dishwasher (www.uspto.gov)

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Biography of Dorothy Vaughan, Groundbreaking NASA Mathematician (www.thoughtco.com)

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Astronomer Andrea Ghez wins a Nobel Prize in Physics!

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Gwendolyn Knight: Success is A Marathon, Not A Sprint | 20th Century Artist (www.youtube.com)

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6 Facts about Women’s Rights in Bangladesh | The Borgen Project (borgenproject.org)

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Key facts about women’s suffrage around the world, a century after U.S. ratified the 19th Amendment | Pew Research Center (www.pewresearch.org)

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Suzy Homemaker Fights For Woman Equality: Equal Pay | Topic (www.topic.com)

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