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By Vivian Deno, July 7, 2018 1:18 pm

Google doodle honoring puertorriquená Helen Rodríguez Trías’ 89th birthday!

The impact of women of color on science, technology, and medicine is a history only partially explored. It is so good to see Google honoring the work of this pioneering public health official. For more information check out this Time Magazine story on Trías. Or, check out her brief biography on the website, Changing the Face of Medicine which focuses on women pioneers in the field. Trías’ work was part of a growing field of reproductive healthcare for women that emerged in the 1970s.

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By Vivian Deno, January 11, 2016 1:27 pm

Today’s Google doodle is in honor of the pioneering suffragist, feminist, and labor rights activist, Alice Paul (1885-1977). Paul was instrumental in getting the 19th amendment passed. Radicalized by her sojourn in England she helped to galvanize the movement in the US in the 1910s.  “There will never be a new world order until women are a part of it.” She was right.