The power of PowerPoint

I’ve created a PowerPoint presentation that helps me talk about EVE. I’m personally not a big fan of PowerPoint since I feel in a dark room it’s hard to connect with the audience, but EVE is about visibility. Women’s lack of visibility is best seen, not just talked about, so I show slides [...]

Are the Wright Brothers the Right Choice for Ohio?

The polling in Ohio has come to a close, and now it’s time for six members of the Ohio state legislature to decide who is the right choice to represent Ohio in National Statuary Hall. Two of the final candidates are Wilbur and Orville Wright, credited with the first flight. Their remarkable achievement [...]

Beating the streets

In this summer heat, EVE volunteers have been beating the streets researching the names and addresses of famous women who were born in D.C. or spent part of their lives in D.C. In our quest for equal visibility, we found out some interesting things.

Jackie Kennedy lived in five different addresses in D.C. …all in [...]

Brother, can you spare a quarter?

From the U.S. Mint:
“Launched in 1999, the United States Mint’s 50 State Quarters Program was a 10-year initiative that honored each of the nation’s states in the order that they ratified the Constitution or were admitted into the Union. Each quarter was produced for about 10 weeks and will never be produced again. [...]

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Taken with my camera phone yesterday at 2:30pm:

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Press Coverage for the Women Candidates for NSH from Ohio

It started inauspiciously: a New York Times article published the day after Thanksgiving in 2009, reporting that Ohio was going to replace the statue of pro-slavery Governor Allen in National Statuary Hall with the statue of another famous Ohioan. Several suggestions were listed but not a single woman was mentioned.
The omission of [...]

Barcelona authorities want more streets and plazas to be named after women

EVE is not alone in its efforts to create gender parity. Barcelona wants more streets named after women.
From barcelonareporter.com:

Wanted: high achieving women to lend names to Barcelona streets | Barcelona city officials are in dire need of women. But not just any women – females who have made contributions to the arts, sciences [...]

A new passport, but the same old story

When we look at historic relics like National Statuary Hall, where almost half the statues have been standing for a century, we expect to find blatant sexism. And we do. Only nine of the 100 statues in National Statuary Hall are of women. But when new memorials and official documents are created, we [...]

U.S. Lags Behind Israel in Street Naming

On September 20, 2007 the Jerusalem Post published an article entitled, “In a sign of the times, more streets to be named after outstanding women.” Obviously, in its quest to name streets after women, EVE is not alone. The article in the Jerusalem Post highlights the recognition by government officials that it is important [...]

Let’s Talk About Religion

There’s an old saying that goes something like this: “If you want to keep your friends, don’t talk about politics, sex, money or religion.” I agree all four can be alienating and I personally have lost friends over discussions about these very same topics. But it’s difficult to talk about gender parity and [...]

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