Badass Women of America
This podcast is about the women in history who broke barriers and made history yet you probably have never heard of them. Join us each week for a new episode about a woman or women who fought in wars, were amazing explorers, were pioneers in aviation – women who weren’t in our history books. These were exciting, brave, adventurous women who helped shaped this country. Join me, Kit and my friend Sherlock, as we share the exciting stories of these women whom you will want to know. These are the Badass Women of America.
Badass Women of America
Latest Episodes
Women Who Joined the Navy in 1917 During WWI
Who knew?! The first women to enlist in a branch of the Armed Services were Yeoman for the US Navy in 1917 during WWI.Over 11,000 women joined the Navy to work in areas like communications, decoding and encoding messages, designing...
Groundbreaking Women Doctors of the 19th and Early 20th Centuries
Most people think there were only a few women doctors in the 1800s and early 1900s but there were thousands.These women found a way around the restrictions of acceptable behavior for women during the Victorian era to pursue their dreams ...
Mary Willard - "Lady Sherlock" of Forensic Science in 1930
It had to start somewhere and it started with Mary Willard - Forensic Science - the beginning of CSI.Mary was an assistant professor of chemistry at Penn State University in 1930 when she was first asked to assist with a criminal case.&n...
Frances Glessner Lee - The Mother of Forensic Science
Without a medical degree, Frances, at the age of 53, changed the course of crime scene investigation and forensic pathology in the United States.She was a pioneer in standardizing the methods used in assessing clues of a crime, training ...
The Story of Dr. Esther Lovejoy - First Woman Doctor in Oregon - 1894
Esther Lovejoy was one of the pioneering women in the medical field in the late 1890s until her death in 1967. She not only traveled all over the world helping the sick and injured; not only changed laws regarding health codes but s...