Sneak peek at the Amelia Earhart balloon

The sketches for our new Amelia Earhart balloon are in—and they’re gorgeous! We sent our 99 Club members the first view earlier this week and got some great feedback. The artist made a couple of tweaks based on their comments, and now the final versions are ready.
Here’s the birdseye view:

Yes, we’re [...]

Funny Ladies

The other day I noted the lack of females in the new Sunday Funnies stamps from the Post Office.
One of our volunteers, Nancy Foye-Cox, was inspired to compile a list of comic strips either featuring females or created by females—just to show what the Post Office is missing. I’ve plugged in her data [...]

EVE on KSDK in St. Louis

Visitors to our website the past few days have seen the wonderful new video about us right on the front page. If you haven’t watched it yet, check it out.

The video came as a total surprise to us: we had no idea Judge Susan Block (she’s retired from the Circuit Court) [...]

Google Doodles and invisible women

Earlier this month I came across Shelby Knox’s post on how Google Doodles (you know what those are, right?) manage to almost entirely ignore women. I thought at the time, “oh wow, we have got to pull this together with our EVE stuff.”
And now we have. Or rather, Shelby [...]

Even cartoon stamps ignore women

“Will Beetle Bailey ever run out of hideouts where he can catch a nap?” asks the AP, reporting on the U.S. Postal Service’s new series of stamps commemorating the Sunday funnies. “Will Sarge ever tire of tracking him down and putting him to work?”
Here’s another question: Will the folks at the post office [...]

Uppity women and subversive history

You know what I like best about our balloon project? That it’s so subversive.
As women and feminists, we’ve always had to find ways around the entrenched power structures to get our stories told. Remember the Guerrilla Girls in the 80s? Remember the “This demeans women” stickers in the 70s?
if (WIDGETBOX) [...]

Put Amelia Earhart Back in the Skies!

A couple of weeks ago I promised that we had two big announcements coming, both related to Amelia Earhart.
Well, here’s the first one: EVE is sponsoring a giant helium balloon of Amelia Earhart to appear in parades all over the country! Actually the balloon will be a replica of her [...]

EVE and the National Council of Women’s Organizations

Our president, Dr. Lynette Long, has been invited to speak at the next meeting of the National Council of Women’s Organizations (NCWO). The NCWO is a coalition of 240 women’s groups across the country, with a collective membership of more than 10 million women.
The meeting will be held Tuesday, July 20th, from [...]

Idaho has the only Great Seal designed by a woman

Did you know that? I didn’t, not until someone forwarded us this fascinating bit of history from the Idaho state government website:

IDAHO HAS THE ONLY GREAT SEAL DESIGNED BY A WOMAN
By Suzanne Taylor
Idaho became a state on July 3, 1890 and that same summer a talented young woman came to the state capitol at [...]

“Girls can’t be president”

Dr. Lynette Long is a psychologist. Her experience with children’s issues and the psychology of gender informs much of what EVE is about. One of her most quoted statements is this one, from our Why It Matters page:
Eighty percent of communication is non-verbal, and the lack of visual images of women leaders has [...]

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