Badass Women of America

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There are women who either in the moment or over decades decide to make a difference.

In this episode we talk about four women who in very different ways made a difference that changed the lives of many people around them.

Bravery, philanthropy, social changes, political changes that have saved lives or empowered people for a better life.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of four brilliant, brave women.

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Harriet Strong went from a frail, delicate Victorian woman to the mother of water conservation in America.

After decades of suppression under her father and husband, Harriet found her strength by necessity and changed farming irrigation in America forever.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Harriet Strong, a revolutionary of California farming.

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Anne Royall was born in 1769 in Baltimore but her family moved to Pennsylvania in 1772 to help settle a new town in what was then considered the migration West.  It was the beginning of the expansion of the United States.

In 1782 during the Revolutionary War Anne's town in Pennsylvania was raided by British soldiers and Seneca warriors who burned the town to the ground.

Anne and her mother survived the attack and moved to Sweet Springs, Virginia where they worked for a wealthy man named William Royall.  William recognized Anne's intelligence and arranged for her education while working for him.  After 12 years, William and Anne were married.  Anne was 28, William was around 50.  They lived happily for 15 years until William's death in 1812 and Anne inherited his wealth...until William's greedy relatives took it all away and Anne found herself penniless at age 50.

This episode tells of Anne's journey of reinventing herself as America's first woman investigative journalist.  She never asked permission to make history!

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Anne Royall.

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Seriously, did you know that hundreds of women were lighthouse keepers in the 1800s?  We didn't.

Ida Lewis and Kate Walker were two of the most famous.  They kept the light burning through storms and fog.  They kept a watch on the waters around them rescuing dozens and dozens of sailors who had the misfortune of capsizing during a storm.

These women were the bravest of the brave.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Ida and Kate - two of the bravest women in America.

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There's a lesson to be learned, especially today, from Henrietta Wood.  Fight for your rights!

Henrietta was born a slave in 1818, freed in 1848 and then kidnapped once again into slavery in 1853.

She endured the hardship but fought to win reparations against the man who illegally enslaved her.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole bizarre story of how Henrietta Wood fought for her rights in 1870.

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Los Angeles didn't start out as a democratic city supporting the rights of all people under the Constitution.

It took people like Charlotte Bass to ensure that ALL people were treated equally regarding jobs, housing and respectful treatment as citizens of Los Angeles

Charlotta Bass is one of the great American heroes that very few people know about.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Charlotta Bass, a true American hero..

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Katharine McCormick did a lot to help women in the 1800s.  She smuggled diaphragms from Europe to America by sewing them into the linings of high fashion women's apparel so that American women could have a contraceptive.

She fought tirelessly for women to have contraceptives to control their number of births.

She eventually funded a biologist's quest for a birth control pill which eventually changed the lives of tens of millions of women...

...but she did it at a price of Puerto Rican women.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Katharine McCormick's quest to provide women with the birth control pill...but at the cost of other women.

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Katharine McCormick accomplished amazing things in her lifetime.

• The second woman to graduate from MIT in 1904.
• A major donator and influence in the Suffrage Movement.
• The reason women have the birth control pill today.

But, as always at Badass Women of America, we like to tell the whole story and sometimes that ain't pretty.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of Katharine McCormick, the woman who gave women the freedom of choosing when to have children...but, at a price.

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Did you know that women started playing basketball in 1892?

Do you know who co-wrote Title IX?

Do you know about the naked protest of Yale women athletes in 1976?

Do you know Wilma Rudolph had polio as a child and became the winner of three gold medals in the 1960 summer Olympics?

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story of these amazing women athletes who changed history.

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Women have been involved in the development of the automobile since the beginning but they're not given enough credit or recognition.

Many of the features for the automobile we use today were invented by women from 1888 to today.

Join Kit and Sherlock for the whole story about women in the auto industry.

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