I want to acknowledge the women, my heroes. The trailblazers, who changed history. The stay at home mothers, the working women, the engineers, the nurses, the doctors, the scientists, the waitresses, the housekeepers, the factory workers, the farmers, the veterinarians, the dentists, the vintners, the carpenters, the mechanics, the electricians, the artists, the musicians, the singers, the actresses, the film makers, the politicians, the editors, the writers, the poets, the dancers, the mathematicians, the physicists, the directors, the photographers, the athletes, the teachers, the store clerks, the councillors, the magicians, the nurturers, the givers, the healthy and the sick.
I want to acknowledge my grandmothers, Magdalena Braun and Erzsebet Petz, my mother, Katalin Petz for teaching me right from wrong, my surrogate mothers, Erzsebet Szabo for loving me like her child and Jo Williamson for her love and for being a loving and caring teacher with indigenous children before it was fashionable.
The source for the following information is Wikipedia.
I want to acknowledge Brene Brown PhD LMSW, the queen of vulnerability
She is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brown is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of the books The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead. Her TED talk is one of the top five most viewed TED talks.
Louise Hay, the mother of metaphysics
When she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor. In the early 1970s she became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believes would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. In 1976, Hay wrote her first book, Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet containing a list of different bodily ailments and their "probable" metaphysical causes. This pamphlet was later enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, published in 1984. In February 2008, it was second on the New York Times miscellaneous paperback bestsellers list. Later more than 50 million copies sold around the world in over 30 languages and it also has been made into a movie. You Can Heal Your Life is also included in the book 50 Self-Help Classics for being significant in its field. It is often described as a part of the New Age movement.
Katherine Johnson also known as Katherine Goble
NASA scientist, whose calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. She earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist
She was in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King Jr., a new minister in Montgomery who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement and went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Viola Irene Desmond, Canadian civil rights activist
In 1946 she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
Anne Frank, German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist
One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Malala Yousafzai, also known as Malala
She is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.
Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu born in Albania, commonly known as Mother Teresa and honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. She was Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She had taken care of the poorest of the poorest.
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
She is the little girl, who makes weak men angry and strong men proud. The Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. Thunberg is known for her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address the climate crisis. Thunberg's activism started after convincing her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint.
Maya Angelou born Marguerite Annie Johnson
She was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs.
Oprah Gail Winfrey
She is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Amelia Mary Earhart
She was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.
There are many more awesome, amazing women. These were just a few I mentioned in this post.
I would like to acknowledge the men who support the women
The men who break the stereotypes. The men who cook, clean and do the laundry or whatever is needed. The men, who realized that just because women can do it all, that doesn't mean we should. The men who step up, so we can realize our dreams and achieve our goals. The men who realized that a woman is more than a house slave and we should have the freedom to leave those roles if we choose to do so.
A big thank you to Neil Gillespie for his help researching for this post.
The source for the following information is Wikipedia.
I want to acknowledge Brene Brown PhD LMSW, the queen of vulnerability
She is a research professor at the University of Houston where she holds the Huffington Foundation – Brené Brown Endowed Chair at The Graduate College of Social Work. Brown is also a visiting professor in management at The University of Texas at Austin McCombs School of Business. She has spent two decades studying courage, vulnerability, shame, and empathy and is the author of the books The Gifts of Imperfection, Daring Greatly, Rising Strong, Braving the Wilderness and Dare to Lead. Her TED talk is one of the top five most viewed TED talks.
Louise Hay, the mother of metaphysics
When she was about 5, she was raped by a neighbor. In the early 1970s she became a Religious Science practitioner. In this role she led people in spoken affirmations, which she believes would cure their illnesses, and became popular as a workshop leader. In 1976, Hay wrote her first book, Heal Your Body, which began as a small pamphlet containing a list of different bodily ailments and their "probable" metaphysical causes. This pamphlet was later enlarged and extended into her book You Can Heal Your Life, published in 1984. In February 2008, it was second on the New York Times miscellaneous paperback bestsellers list. Later more than 50 million copies sold around the world in over 30 languages and it also has been made into a movie. You Can Heal Your Life is also included in the book 50 Self-Help Classics for being significant in its field. It is often described as a part of the New Age movement.
Katherine Johnson also known as Katherine Goble
NASA scientist, whose calculations of orbital mechanics were critical to the success of the first and subsequent U.S. crewed spaceflights. She earned a reputation for mastering complex manual calculations and helped pioneer the use of computers to perform the tasks.
Rosa Louise McCauley Parks was an American activist
She was in the civil rights movement best known for her pivotal role in the Montgomery bus boycott. The United States Congress has called her "the first lady of civil rights" and "the mother of the freedom movement". Parks' act of defiance and the Montgomery bus boycott became important symbols of the movement. She became an international icon of resistance to racial segregation. She organized and collaborated with civil rights leaders, including Edgar Nixon, president of the local chapter of the NAACP; and Martin Luther King Jr., a new minister in Montgomery who gained national prominence in the civil rights movement and went on to win a Nobel Peace Prize.
Viola Irene Desmond, Canadian civil rights activist
In 1946 she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre. Desmond's case is one of the most publicized incidents of racial discrimination in Canadian history and helped start the modern civil rights movement in Canada.
Anne Frank, German-born Dutch-Jewish diarist
One of the most discussed Jewish victims of the Holocaust, she gained fame posthumously with the publication of The Diary of a Young Girl, in which she documents her life in hiding from 1942 to 1944, during the German occupation of the Netherlands in World War II. It is one of the world's best known books and has been the basis for several plays and films.
Malala Yousafzai, also known as Malala
She is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest Nobel Prize laureate. She is known for human rights advocacy, especially the education of women and children in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement, and according to former Pakistani Prime Minister Shahid Khaqan Abbasi, she has become "the most prominent citizen" of the country.
Mother Teresa
Mary Teresa Bojaxhiu born in Albania, commonly known as Mother Teresa and honoured in the Catholic Church as Saint Teresa of Calcutta. She was Albanian-Indian Roman Catholic nun and missionary. She had taken care of the poorest of the poorest.
Greta Tintin Eleonora Ernman Thunberg
She is the little girl, who makes weak men angry and strong men proud. The Swedish environmental activist on climate change whose campaigning has gained international recognition. Thunberg is known for her straightforward speaking manner, both in public and to political leaders and assemblies, in which she urges immediate action to address the climate crisis. Thunberg's activism started after convincing her parents to adopt several lifestyle choices to reduce their own carbon footprint.
Maya Angelou born Marguerite Annie Johnson
She was an American poet, singer, memoirist, and civil rights activist. She published seven autobiographies, three books of essays, several books of poetry, and is credited with a list of plays, movies, and television shows spanning over 50 years. She became a poet and writer after a series of occupations as a young adult, including fry cook, sex worker, nightclub dancer and performer, cast member of the opera Porgy and Bess, coordinator for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, and journalist in Egypt and Ghana during the decolonization of Africa. She was an actress, writer, director, and producer of plays, movies, and public television programs.
Oprah Gail Winfrey
She is an American media executive, actress, talk show host, television producer, and philanthropist. She is best known for her talk show, The Oprah Winfrey Show, broadcast from Chicago, which was the highest-rated television program of its kind in history and ran in national syndication for 25 years. Dubbed the "Queen of All Media", she was the richest African American of the 20th century and North America's first black multi-billionaire and she has been ranked the greatest black philanthropist in American history. By 2007, she was sometimes ranked as the most influential woman in the world.
Amelia Mary Earhart
She was an American aviation pioneer and author. Earhart was the first female aviator to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean. She set many other records, wrote best-selling books about her flying experiences, and was instrumental in the formation of The Ninety-Nines, an organization for female pilots. Born in Atchison, Kansas, Earhart developed a passion for adventure at a young age, steadily gaining flying experience from her twenties. In 1928, Earhart became the first female passenger to cross the Atlantic by airplane (accompanying pilot Wilmer Stultz), for which she achieved celebrity status. In 1932, piloting a Lockheed Vega 5B, Earhart made a nonstop solo transatlantic flight, becoming the first woman to achieve such a feat. She received the United States Distinguished Flying Cross for this accomplishment.
There are many more awesome, amazing women. These were just a few I mentioned in this post.
I would like to acknowledge the men who support the women
The men who break the stereotypes. The men who cook, clean and do the laundry or whatever is needed. The men, who realized that just because women can do it all, that doesn't mean we should. The men who step up, so we can realize our dreams and achieve our goals. The men who realized that a woman is more than a house slave and we should have the freedom to leave those roles if we choose to do so.
A big thank you to Neil Gillespie for his help researching for this post.