Frances Perkins was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet, the longest-serving Labor Secretary, and an architect of the New Deal. Yet beyond these celebrated accomplishments there is another dimension to Frances Perkins’s story. Without fanfare, and despite powerful opposition, Perkins

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23.03.2025

March 2025: SHE-Labrate Women's History Month — Badass Women's Book Club

It’s been a minute since we lifted up a Badass Woman of the Week, but I think you’ll agree with this choice: Sarah Inama, an Idaho teacher is in a standoff with her own school district after officials ordered her to remove classroom signs, including one that reads, “Everyone is welcome here.”&nb

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29.05.2025

May 2025: What all the Badass Women are Reading, Watching, and Listening to this Month — Badass Women's Book Club

Have you seen the chaos over the Chicago Sun-Times' summer book preview ? It featured books that don’t even exist —we’re talking completely made-up titles like Boiling Point by Rebecca Makkai and Nightshade Market by Min Jin Lee, and even a fake book by Taylor Jenkins Reid (who, for the record

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10.06.2025

Our June Book: The Book Club for Troublesome Women — Badass Women's Book Club

By 1960s standards, Margaret Ryan is living the American woman's dream. She has a husband, three children, a station wagon, and a home in Concordia--one of Northern Virginia's most exclusive and picturesque suburbs. She has a standing invitation to the neighborhood coffee klatch, and now, thanks to

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March 2025: SHE-Labrate Women's History Month — Badass Women's Book Club

May 2025: What all the Badass Women are Reading, Watching, and Listening to this Month — Badass Women's Book Club

Our June Book: The Book Club for Troublesome Women — Badass Women's Book Club

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