Nigeria. Despite being born in an average income family, Bola didn’t let her background define her, rather, she put in enough work to change the history of her family for good. She holds a BSc in Economics and Accountancy which she bagged from the University of Zaria and Armstrong Colleg...
Atkinson, Dorothy, Alexander Dallin and Gail Warshofsky Lapidus (eds.).Women in Russia. Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1977. A wealth of valuable information, ranging from historical studies to the contemporary position of women in the professions and higher education, women and sex in...
Annette Lerner enters the list after inheriting some of her late husband Ted Lerner's estate. He created a real-estate empire in the Washington, D.C. area, and it all started with Annette loaning him $250 in 1962. The Lerner family has alsoowned the Washington Nationals MLB team since 2...
Kalpana Chawla, an Indian American astronaut born in 1962, was the first woman of Indian origin to go to space. She went on her first space mission in 1997. Unfortunately, she died in 2003 when the Space Shuttle Columbia disintegrated. She remains an inspiration for Indian women who want to...
Factors influencing the prevalence and severity of dysmenorrhoea were assessed longitudinally in a representative sample of young women born in 1962. The prevalence of dysmenorrhoea was lower (P less than 0.01) at 24 years of age than at 19 years of age. At 24 years of age, 67% of ...
Kaz Cooke (born 1962) is an Australian author and cartoonist. Her books include Real Gorgeous, Up the Duff (also published under different titles outside of Australia), Kidwrangling, Girl Stuff and Living with Crazy Buttocks, which won the 2002 Bookseller/Diagram Prize for Oddest Title of the...
Main sample (first-born women born in 1962–1975 with a younger biological sibling born within 4 years). The whiskers represent the 95% confidence interval. Each bar illustrates the estimates from one regression model, only including an intercept. The point estimates are replicated in column (1...
Born in Spain in 1962, Cristina Nunez began taking photographic self-portraits in 1988, as a way of overcoming issues of self-esteem that had led her into drug addiction during her teenage years. In 1994, after six years of self-portraits, she became a resilient artist whose work is regula...
Surviving an attempted coup d'état in 1962, as well as a 1971 insurrection of radical youths, in 1972 she oversaw the drafting of a new constitution and the formation of the Sri Lankan republic. In 1975, Bandaranaike created what would eventually become the Sri Lankan Ministry of Women and...
Margaret Evelyn Bidwell (1881-1985) was born in east Twickenham, the daughter of Edward Bidwell and Catherine (née Cotman). Her mother was the grand daughter of the artist John Sell Cotman. Margaret Bidwell trained as a teacher at Bedford College and was an assistant mistress at Edgehill Scho...