Women Pulling Women Up!: 2013-02-10

Thursday, February 14, 2013

Go, Go Speedracer

Women Race Car Drivers

NASCAR has allowed female drivers since its start in 1949 and several women raced that first year - Sara Christian, raced in the inaugural NASCAR race but was unable to complete the race.

After 1949 female racers were pretty much nonexistent until 1976, when Janet Guthrie participated in the 1976 World 600, finishing 15th -placing ahead of Dale Earnhardt.

In 1988, Shawna Robinson became the first woman to win a NASCAR Touring Series event and in 2003 she would also use the first all-female pit crew for a race at Texas Motor Speedway.

In 2004, The Drive for Diversity program was founded by NASCAR and female and minority drivers became more prevalent.

NO Woman has ever won the Indy 500 but five women have competed-Janet Guthrie(1977-79),Lyn St. James(1992-97, 2000),Sarah Fisher(2000-04, 2007), Danica Patrick (2005-07)and Milka Duno (2007).
When I was doing the research for this post, all I could find I initially searched for woman race car driver was a bunch of inappropriate halloween costumes. Come on young ladies, we need more women in this career field!

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History of Women in US

In 1614 Pocahontas married a Jamestown colonist, the first recorded interracial marriage in American history.
In 1655 Elizabeth Key, who was a slave in Virginia, won her freedom in a lawsuit based on her father's status as a free Englishman
In 1662 Virginia passed a law stating that any child born would follow the status of his/her mother, slave or free.
In 1693 - Salem Witch Trials
In 1776 Betsy Ross sewed the 1st American Flag
In 1841 The first three women received their Bachelors Degree from Oberlin College
In 1848 Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Stanton organized the first Woman’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls NY
In 1850 Harriet Tubman started the Underground Railroad
In 1851 Sojourner Truth delivered her speech on racial inequalities, Ain't I a Woman?, at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention.
In 1852 Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom's Cabin.
In 1871 the first state laws specifically making wife beating illegal were passed.
In 1872 Susan B. Anthony was arrested for trying to cast her vote.
In 1900 Women, including a few US, competed for the 1st time in the Olympics
In 1912 Daisy Low founded Girl Scouts
In 1917 Jeannette Rankin, a Republican from Montana, became the first woman elected to the House of Representatives.
In 1920 Women earn the right to vote - 19th Amendment
In 1932 Amelia Earhart became the first woman to fly the Atlantic
In 1932 Hattie Caraway of Arkansas became the first woman elected to the Senate.
In 1933 Frances Perkins was appointed as the Secretary of Labor, making her the first woman to hold a job in a Presidential cabinet, FDR's
In 1942 78 Military nurses were held as POWs for over three years.
In 1943 The Women's Airforce Service Pilots ( WASP) was created to free male pilots for combat service.
In 1955 Rosa Parks is arrested for not giving up her bus seat (She did the same thing in 1943)
In 1964 the Civil Rights Act was passed
In 1967 Affirmative Action measures were ordered by President Johnson
In 1978 the Pregnancy Discrimination Act was passed.
In 1981 Sandra Day O'Connor became the first female Supreme Court Justice
In 1984 Geraldine Ferraro became the first woman nominated for Vice President by a major party.
In 1996 the US Supreme Court ruled it unconstitutional for Military Institutes to deny entry to females.
In 2008 Ann Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in the United States military.

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