71: The Self-Empowered Woman: Kankuben Lalabhai Parmar

July 22, 2010 By

Dear Followers, Today - thanks to Guy Trebay and the New York Times - I'd like to tell you about an amazing woman who has defied all odds and become an international business woman even though, for many years, she'd never traveled outside her own home. Kankuben Lalabhai Parmar is from the village of Madhutra in the Indian State of Gujarat. To get to Manhattan, where her crafts are being sold at the Asia Society, her journey involved an oxcart, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Crafts Council of India, Gujarat, Indiana University, Kankuben Lalabhai Parmar, Madhutra, Sewa

27. Nobel Prize-Winning Women

October 14, 2009 By

Dear Followers, If you've been following the news you probably know that a record FIVE women won Nobel Prizes this year (the previous record was three, in 2004). The winners include: Elizabeth Blackburn, 60, (dual U.S.-Austrailian citizenship) and Carol Grieder, 48, (American) who shared the Physiology/Medicine Nobel Prize with Jack Szostak. Greider worked in a research lab in UC Santa Barbara and (Chapter Thirteen: More Than Meets the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Ada Yonath, Carol Grieder, Elinor Ostrom, Elizabeth Blackburn, Herta Mueller, Indiana University, Marie Curie, Nobel Prize, UC Santa Barbara, Women who have won the Nobel Prize