Live Alive With Allison Aucar

- Happy Women’s History Month!
Let’s talk about two of my favorite Athletes - Serena and Venus Williams 🎾
Serena was an American professional tennis player. Considered among the greatest tennis players of all time, she was ranked world No. 1 in singles by the Women's Tennis Association for 319 weeks, including a joint-record 186 consecutive weeks, and finished as the year-end No. 1 five times!
She revolutionized women’s tennis with her powerful style of play and won more Grand Slam singles titles (23) than any other woman or man during the open era!!
Venus Williams - also a former world No. 1 in both singles and doubles, Williams has won seven Grand Slam singles titles, five at Wimbledon and two at the US Open. She is widely regarded as one of the all-time greats of the sport.
Together Serena and Venus have won the doubles Gold Medal 3 times in 2000 (Sydney), 2008 (Beijing), and 2012 (London) with an Olympic doubles record of 15-1!

Althea Gibson (1927-2003)
Serena Williams might be the most famous tennis player on earth, but she might not have gotten her start if not for the persistence of Althea Gibson. In 1951, Gibson made her historic debut as the first African American woman to play at Wimbledon & win a grand slam title (she won 5 titles to be exact). Wow!

Ada Lovelace (1815 – 1852)
“That brain of mine is something more than merely mortal; as time will show.”
Ada Lovelace was an English mathematician and the world’s first computer programmer. Lovelace was born into privilege as the daughter of a famously unstable romantic poet, Lord Byron (who left her family when Ada was just 2 months old) and Lady Wentworth.
Ada was a charming woman of society who was friends with people such as Charles Dickens, but she is most famous for being the first person ever to publish an algorithm intended for a computer, her genius being years ahead of her time.
Lovelace died of cancer at 36, and it took nearly a century after her death for people to appreciate her notes on Babbage’s Analytical Engine, which became recognised as the first description for computer and software, ever.

🎾 Billie Jean King - Born: November 22, 1943
Billie Jean King is an American former world No. 1 tennis player. King won 39 major titles: 12 in singles, 16 in women's doubles, and 11 in mixed doubles. She is most notably known for a significant moment for women's sports - The Battle of the S.exes. She beat a top men's tennis player, Bobby Riggs. Riggs, who was 55 years old at the time, was a male chauvinist who said that the women's game was inferior to the men's. She proved him wrong beating him: 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 🏆

𝗠𝗮𝗿𝗴𝗮𝗿𝗲𝘁 𝗦𝗮𝗻𝗴𝗲𝗿 (𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟏𝟒, 𝟏𝟖𝟕𝟗 - 𝐒𝐞𝐩𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫 𝟔, 𝟏𝟗𝟔𝟔)
In October 1916, the nurse and women’s rights activist Margaret Sanger opened the first American birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn. Since state "Comstock Laws" banned contraceptives and the dissemination of information about them, Sanger’s clinic was illegal; as a result, on October 26, the city vice squad raided the clinic, arresting its staff and seizing its stock of diaphragms and condoms. Sanger tried to reopen the clinic twice more, but police forced her landlord to evict her the next month, closing it for good. In 1921, Sanger formed the American Birth Control League, the organization that eventually became Planned Parenthood.

The Criminalization of Abortion Began as a Business Tactic | HISTORY Abortion was common during the 19th century.

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Jane Bolin’s name is synonymous with firsts in the legal arena. She’s the first Black woman to graduate Yale Law School, join the New York City Bar Association and the NYC Law Department, and become a judge in the United States. Bolin took office in 1939 on the New York City Domestic Relations Court and remained there for 40 years until her retirement.
She worked tirelessly for the rights of children and women as a legal advisor to the National Council of Negro Women. She often spoke about her experiences as the minority throughout her higher education and professional experience. But, Bolin also got to see strides of change throughout her lifetime as she made the impossible a reality for Black women.
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Mary Anderson: 1866-1953
Windshield Wiper
Much like many great inventors, Mary wanted to solve a problem. She saw how unsafe it was to drive in bad weather when she visited New York City in 1902 and rode a trolley car in falling sleet. She quickly came up with a working model that used a lever inside the car to control a rubber blade on the windshield. Though she had trouble selling her invention at first, eventually Cadillac included her invention on its vehicles in 1922.

Female Inventor - Josephine Cochrane: 1839-1913
The Dishwasher
This is the woman you can thank for keeping us from having to wash every dish by hand. She originally came up with the idea of a mechanical dishwasher that would hold dishes in a rack while pressurized water sprayed them clean. She built her idea with the help of mechanic, George Butters, who later became one of her first employees. She began marketing her inventions to hotels until, eventually, it became the standard household appliance we now know today.

Flo-Jo: December 21, 1959 – September 21, 1998
Florence Delorez Girffith Joyner, also know as Flo-Jo, was an America track and field athlete. She set the world records in 1988 for the 100m (10.49 seconds!) and 200m. She became a popular figure due to both her record-setting athleticism and eclectic style on the track.
More than 30 years after she sprinted to three gold medals 🥇 in the Seoul 1988 Olympic Games, Florence Griffith Joyner is still considered the fastest woman of all time.

Ruth Marianna Handler (November 4, 1916 – April 27, 2002) was an American businesswoman and inventor. She is best known for inventing the Barble Doll in 1959, and being co-founder of toy manufacturer Mattel with her husband Elliot, as well as serving as the 𝐜𝐨𝐦𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲'𝐬 𝐟𝐢𝐫𝐬𝐭 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝟏𝟗𝟒𝟓 𝐭𝐨 𝟏𝟗𝟕𝟓.

Margaret E. Knight: 1838 - 1914
The Paper Bag
If you've ever used a paper bag, you can thank Margaret "Mattie" Knight, the 19th century's most famous woman inventor! Born in York, Maine, Knight was most well-known for a machine she built when she was 30 which folded and glued paper to create a flat-bottomed paper bag. The product was popular — so popular, in fact, that a man stole the idea to patent himself. When Knight took him to court for patent interference, he argued that a woman "could not possibly understand the mechanical complexities." Knight won her case by providing proof that she had designed the machine, earning herself the right to patent her machine. 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
Over the course of her career, Knight invented over 100 different machines and patented 20 of them, including a rotary engine, a shoe-cutting machine, and a window frame with a sash. But if the true test of an invention is its staying power, then Knight's paper bag — still used today — is proof of her incredible gifts.

Female Inventor - Hedy Lamarr: 1914-2000
“Frequency Hopping” Technology
You may or may not know Hedy Lamarr as a glamorous black and white film star, but did you know she also worked to improve torpedo technology in WWII? A gifted mathematician and engineer, she worked with a composer to develop the idea of ‘frequency hopping’ which would encrypt torpedo control signals. This technology was able to prevent enemies from sending torpedos off course. Even more impressively, the type of technology she developed ended up being the foundation for many modern-day inventions, including Wi-Fi and GPS.