Women You Should Know: Jane Addams

Who was Jane Addams? Well, for one thing she was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize. She was a feminist and a pioneer and innovator in the field of social work (before the field actually existed as social work.) Jane was born in 1860 to a prosperous and politically active miller who [...]

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Women You Should Know: Donaldina Cameron, Angel of Chinatown

Donaldina Cameron was born on a sheep ranch in New Zealand in 1869, but she and her family emigrated to California when she was two. Her mother died when she was five. Ranching was hard work, and Donaldina, her older brother, and her four older sisters were not enough to help her father keep the [...]

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