I can't reply to pests directly due to thread depth limit, but:
Bessica Raiche built her own airplane out of piano strings and silk when she read about the Wright Brother's flight. She was the first American woman to fly solo. She is worth remembering for many reasons, the flying just makes her relevant to this discussion.
I think Bessica Raiche is a worthy person for young women to hear about. Frankly she is a worthy person for young men to hear about too, she inspires me. If you are ever in a position where you need to be to keep at something, I think remembering that a person built an airplane out of wire and bamboo poles and then flew it solo, crashed, and kept at it is hard to beat. If she did it today it would be remarkable, but she did it in 1910 when it was completely unreasonable to try. She was competent in multiple fields and a renaissance woman. She was able to achieve remarkable things, and more mundane things that were still remarkable given the time she lived.
"On October 13, 1910, Raiche was awarded a diamond-studded gold medal inscribed "First Woman Aviator in America" by Hudson Maxim of the Aeronautical Society of America".
"Bessica was a physician, one of the first women specialists in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States"
"Bessica served as president of the Orange County Medical Association"
Have you ever heard of her before? Her Wikipedia page is less than 1 page long and only has one section. Earhart's Wikipedia page is 64 pages long.
If you want to be remembered, it's better to be rich and connected than a remarkable and competent person.
I'm sick of Amelia Earhart, the rich poser who got herself killed through what is credibly believed to be willful negligence and incompetence with her own equipment (the negligence and incompetence with her equipment is well documented, we just don't know if that is what killed her because she was so far off course that she was never found). It's ironic that if she had been a better navigator it's likely that she would have a worse reputation, because she might have wrecked closer to where she was supposed to have been and they could have figured out what happened.
Bessica Raiche built her own airplane out of piano strings and silk when she read about the Wright Brother's flight. She was the first American woman to fly solo. She is worth remembering for many reasons, the flying just makes her relevant to this discussion.
I think Bessica Raiche is a worthy person for young women to hear about. Frankly she is a worthy person for young men to hear about too, she inspires me. If you are ever in a position where you need to be to keep at something, I think remembering that a person built an airplane out of wire and bamboo poles and then flew it solo, crashed, and kept at it is hard to beat. If she did it today it would be remarkable, but she did it in 1910 when it was completely unreasonable to try. She was competent in multiple fields and a renaissance woman. She was able to achieve remarkable things, and more mundane things that were still remarkable given the time she lived.
"On October 13, 1910, Raiche was awarded a diamond-studded gold medal inscribed "First Woman Aviator in America" by Hudson Maxim of the Aeronautical Society of America".
"Bessica was a physician, one of the first women specialists in obstetrics and gynecology in the United States"
"Bessica served as president of the Orange County Medical Association"
Have you ever heard of her before? Her Wikipedia page is less than 1 page long and only has one section. Earhart's Wikipedia page is 64 pages long.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bessie_Raiche
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amelia_Earhart
If you want to be remembered, it's better to be rich and connected than a remarkable and competent person.
I'm sick of Amelia Earhart, the rich poser who got herself killed through what is credibly believed to be willful negligence and incompetence with her own equipment (the negligence and incompetence with her equipment is well documented, we just don't know if that is what killed her because she was so far off course that she was never found). It's ironic that if she had been a better navigator it's likely that she would have a worse reputation, because she might have wrecked closer to where she was supposed to have been and they could have figured out what happened.