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Rachel Carson was an American marine biologist and nature writer credited with catalyzing the global environmental movement. She started as a biologist with the U.S. Bureau of Fisheries in 1936, but became a full-time author in the 1950s.  Her first three books were about marine life, from the shore to the surface to the deep sea. 

But it was her 1962 bestselling book, Silent Spring, about the effects of pesticides that brought environmental issues to the attention of the American public, and later, the world. Silent Spring led to a nationwide ban on DDT and other pesticides, and the grassroots environmental movement the book inspired led to the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency [EPA].

“Those who dwell, as scientists or laymen, among the beauties and mysteries of the earth, are never alone or weary of life.”

Go to www.rachelcarson.org to learn more about Rachel or go to http://www.nwhm.org/education-resources/biography/biographies-home to learn about more kick-butt women in history.

Source: National Women’s History Museum

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A fictionalized account of one of America’s most groundbreaking sexual harassment lawsuits comes to the screen in this hard-hitting drama. In the late ’80s, Josey Aimes (Charlize Theron) fled her abusive husband, and needed to find a way to support her two children. Aimes returned to her hometown in Minnesota and followed the lead of her old friend Glory (Frances McDormand), who had bucked tradition and found a job in the iron mines that had long provided employment for much of the community. Aimes found honest labor and a living wage working the mines, but she also discovered she was working with men who were uncomfortable working with women (whose right to work in the mines had been mandated by law almost 15 years prior), and didn’t care to show them much respect.

However, as Aimes found herself the growing target of sexist jokes and abhorrent behavior, she found that many of her female co-workers were reluctant to stand beside her, afraid of losing a good-paying job at a time when they were increasingly hard to find. But as a personal crisis became a public war of words, Aimes became the center of a nationwide controversy when she attempted to file a class action sexual harassment suit against the mine owners, which put her and her family in a position of scrutiny beyond her worst expectations.

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