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Madrid Woman: Emilia Pardo Bazán

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     I have chosen to write my women’s choice blog on Emilia Pardo Bazán. I was able to learn a lot about her when we were by her statue! She was a writer! She wrote over 600 stories. Professor Pratt once set a goal to read one of her stories everyday! He got to about 40-ish days and then decided to call it quits. However, he said they were all very good. She was the 22nd person in Spain to have a telephone. She was pro technology but also couldn’t see how planes could be useful. Planes are my favorite technology so I think it’s funny she didn’t think they would be useful. On a more serious note, she used to give great lectures and even became the first woman to be a professor at the university. Sadly, the male professors didn’t like this and would boycott her lectures. This also caused a lot of the students to not attend them as well because they were scared of the repercussions. She ended up leaving the university and went back to giving lectures outside the university....
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Agnès Varda

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     I have had the privilege of learning a lot about Agnès Varda. Some of the things I have learned are really important and serious facts while others are just fun little facts. One of these little facts I have learned is that her signature hairstyle was bright red hair grown out so that the top was gray! I thought this was such a funny little fact and it was so unique. Another thing I have learned is that Agnès started out as a photographer. I think this definitely helped her because as a director you have to be able to see the big picture of the movie. Another fun little fact is that her love of photography inspired her to live on the street named after the person who invented photography! One of the really cool and important facts I have learned about her is that right away she had great respect from male film makers. She was considered one of them. Women were not typically given this amount of respect so this is amazing and just shows what a talent she was.  ...
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Lise Meitner

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     On our walking tour yesterday we stopped outside of Humboldt University of Berlin. While we were stopped we got to talk about Lisa Mintier because her statue was just inside the gate! Here are some of the things I learned from Professor M. McFarland! She was born in Austria and was the 2nd woman to graduate in physics. She ended up moving to Berlin because it was the only place where she would be given a lab. This “lab” was literally a woodworking shop. Yikes. One of my favorite facts I learned about her was that despite being given this crappy lab, she still went on to be one of the only two women to have a periodic element named after her. Lise discovered nuclear fission with her partner Otto Hahn. Otto Hahn ended up winning the Nobel prize, but of course Lise didn’t. Classic. Throughout her life, Lise was nominated 49 times but never won. This is crazy to me. I wonder if she would have won in today's world. Lise sounds like a very cool woman to me and I am very gl...
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