Mother-Nurturers of us all
Women have sure come a long way. The Library of Congress are featuring a number of them since March is “Women’s History Month.” It isn’t just the Library that is paying tribute to women this month.
The Library of Congress, National Archives and Records Administration, National Endowment for the Humanities, National Gallery of Art, National Park Service, Smithsonian Institution and United States Holocaust Memorial Museum join in paying tribute to the generations of women whose commitment to nature and the planet have proved invaluable to society.
I’ve written before, and repeat here, I think women surpass men in their political views. I just think, that on the whole, women have more common senses than men.
Kind of stands to reason women stand out as leaders in many aspects of society. They are the primary nurturers of us all. Not a one of us would have survived but for a woman in our lives. After all, it was women who fed us, bathed us, changed our diapers, and rocked us to sleep during our earliest years on earth.
In the history of the United States we were an agricultural society. If you look at the census records from the first census in 1790 through much of the 1800’s it is obvious most American families lived on farms. The size of families were larger than they are now. The children in the families worked on the farm too. It was a family enterprise.
As the United States evolved from an agricultural society into an industrial society things began to change. Spurred by the need for workers in industrial plants during World War II, the character of families changed as well. Women left the home to become industrial workers in the war effort. Epitomized by Rosie the Riveter women left the kitchen and became breadwinners.
The Library of Congress is covering a number of notable women who made the transition from home to achieve accomplishments worldwide.
Amelia Earhart, born in Kansas, became an aviator. She was the first woman to set an altitude record, women’s speed record, and the first to fly solo across the Atlantic. It was Maya Lin who brought us the Viet Nam black marble wall memorializing the soldiers who died in the Viet Nam war. Ann Sexton, became a Pulitzer Prize winning poet while battling mental disease, finally committing suicide in 1974. Julia Child became a renown chef, internationally acclaimed. Rosa Parks, by simply taking a seat on a bus in Montgomery, Alabama, took a step that changed the American civil rights landscape forever. Helen Keller, blind and deaf, influenced by another woman, Anne Sullivan, graduated cum laude from Radcliffe College, showed us all that physical handicaps can be overcome and those so afflicted can achieve great strides, a lesson for us all.
Those are just a few of exemplary women from all walks of life who made astounding marks in their lives.
Our world is all the better for their accomplishments.
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It sure seems that women today do so much more than most men. A lot of men won’t even take of their children so women do all the nurturing stuff while having to support them on their own. Also, almost all of the law schools that I have looked at have more women attending than men. I thought that was interesting. It seems that as soon as we got our freedom we ran with it, leaving a lot of guys in the dust!