Did you know Betty Crocker was never really a real person? She is just a made up figure used to answer letters for a contest started by the Washburn Crosby Company, a precede company of General Mills. Betty Crocker is an American icon who helped women in all types of cooking. Betty Crocker was a character created to sign off letters answering questions for a contest, made a brand and company out of it, and encouraged women to become comfortable in the kitchen.
In 1921 Gold Medal Flour, owned by the Washburn Crosby Company, started a contest that whoever could solve a jigsaw puzzle of a flour milling scene would win a pincushion that resembled a flour sack. Gold Medal Flour started receiving thousands of responses and questions about baking. The Washburn Crosby Company decided to create a woman to answer all the letters. This was the creation of Betty Crocker. They chose the name Betty because the name sounded friendly. Crocker was chosen as the last name after a recently retired director of the company, William G. Crocker. The signature was to be chosen from many signatures sent in from people all over America. The winner was named Florence Lindeberg and her signature for Betty Crocker is still used at the end of all the cooking, baking, and domestic advice letters today. The Betty Crocker name was becoming more and more popular. The
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In 1924 Betty Crocker started a radio show. The station it premiered on was called WCCO and was located in Minneapolis. Betty was first voiced by a woman named Majorie Child Husted. The show was called “The Betty Crocker Cooking School on Air.” It was the first daytime radio cooking show. In the next year the show was a hit and expanded to 13 regional stations. Soon after it became a national broadcast. The show was a huge success and ran for 24 years. The radio show helped women not feel confined to their own towns. Women were able to share their problems with people all over the
Annie Turnbo Malone was an entrepreneur and was also a chemist. She became a millionaire by making some hair products for some black women. She gave most of her money away to charity and to promote the African American. She was born on august 9, 1869, and was the tenth child out of eleven children that where born by Robert and Isabella turnbo. Annie’s parents died when she was young so her older sister took care of her until she was old enough to take care of herself.
“I am not afraid of storms, for I am learning how to sail my ship”-Louisa May Alcott. Captured by Comanche Indians around age eight, Cynthia Ann Parker was a white girl with an Indian spirit and lots of perseverance. She not only was a survivor and a witness of the Comanche raid on Fort Parker in May of 1836 but also became the chief’s wife. Cynthia Ann Parker is a well-known, accomplished woman in Texas History.
Two years after Life with Elizabeth, White starred in Date with the Angels. Some of Whites early guest appearances were on Petticoat Junction and The United States Steel She was on one of 2010s Super Bowl Commercials for Snickers that was a amazing opportunity in her career. In 2012 Betty White hosted Betty White's Off Their Rockers. Off Their Rockers was a hidden camera show about her older generation pull pranks on younger generations.
Barbie was created by Ruth Handler, whose husband co-founded Mattel, the world's largest toy company. She noticed a gap in the market as she saw her daughter, Barbra, playing with adult paper dolls. At the time, the market for young girls was focused on baby dolls, but Barbra and her friends preferred to play with a grown-up version, dressing them up in outfits and pretending they were the grown up women they were playing with. Ruth then thought to create a 3- dimensional fashion doll that she would name Barbie after her daughter, Barbra. When presenting the idea to executives at Mattel, she was shot down, being told that they were too expensive to make for the amount of detail Ruth ...
She was revered by many people in her time, a time when women struggled to get that reverence. At the university, she was Dean of Women, a member of the Arizona Board of Regents from 1951 to 1959, and Special Assistant to the University President John Schaefer. My mother told me that
Charlotte Perkins Gilman defied this stereotype. Although she was married twice, in neither relationship did she follow the standard role of homemaker. Born in Hartford, Connecticut in 1860, she was raised by a single mother and grew up to be an artist and art teacher. She married in 1884 and had a daughter the following year. However, after her pregnancy she sank into a deep postpartum depression and was sent to a sanitarium for women. There, the prescribed treatment of rest and isolation nearly drove her insane and ...
...s to give girls inspiration to live aspire for their dreams. Ruth Handler’s invention came to life just as she thought it would. Even after Handlers time Barbie’s are still such an important part of girl’s childhoods. This simple idea evolved into the number one toy making industry and the most popular doll in the world. Even though her body proportions are not ideal, she is still a beloved part of the common childhood. Ruth Handler believed in herself and her ideas. She was a successful entrepreneur, businesswoman, and inventor.
“She was from Pasadena, this six-foot-two marvel of a woman. It was not so much because she was an extraordinary cook- and she would pointedly remind us that she was a cook, not a chef” (Kehoe 1). Julia Child was an extraordinary woman who had a passion for cooking that she didn’t even know could change the way people cook. Julia Child most definitely influenced cooking for generations to come with her passion for cooking and love for food.
Rosie the riveter was the face of recruiting women into the Armed Forces during WWII. The increasing demand for soldiers was not being filled fast enough by just males. As a result, between the years 1940 and 1945, the percentage of female service members increased from 27% to 37%. Even on the civilian side of things, the ratio of married working women outside of their homes increased to one out of every four. The population of women that did not join the war was prompted by Rosie the Riveter’s iconic image to work in one of the many munitions industries throughout the US. In 1943, not only had the female population contributed exponential numbers in support of the war; but women had begun to dominate. Reports indicate that more than 310,000 women worked in the U.S. aircraft industry; this made up more than half of the total workforce. Prior to this moment in history, women’s involvement in the aircraft industry was merely one percent.
To get the answer to her question, she began to survey women of Smith College. Her findings lead to the writing of her first book, The Feminine Mystique. The book uses other women’s personal experiences along with her own experiences to describes the idea behind being a feminist. “At every step of the way, the feminists had to fight the conception that they were violating the God-given nature of woman… The image of the feminists as inhuman, fiery man-eater, whether expressed as an offense against God or in the modern terms of sexual perversion, is not unlike the stereotype of the Negro as a primitive animal or the union member as an anarchist” (86-87). That image of women that has been created by society and the same idea applies to race and how it is something that is so prone to society about things no one can change. Feminists were the ones who were able to fight for their rights even though some may believe that isn't what women are made to be but Betty Friedan did, which motivated her to fight for women’s rights in the second wave feminist movement. She was able to accomplish helping more women fight for their rights and set the ground for the women fighting
It is because of Ann that I am in the position of a figure skating instructor, today. She is an incredible person and her family history has given women a beautiful reputation. Women like Ann are what make the struggles that women went through in our history worthwhile.
Alice Walker pours events and conflicts from her life into her works, using her rural roots as settings and Ebonics she brings her stories to life. Everyday Use and The Color Purple reflected the negative views Alice walker took upon herself because of her deformity. While also showing how things were in the Jim Crow era; where African-Americans were not afforded the same opportunities of whites. These two works explore events from her entire family, not just events she faced solely on her own. While also having the same rural setting as Walker’s Georgia upbringing. In this paper, I will go into detail of Alice’s two works Everyday Use and The Color Purple and what events are reflected in these works.
Maria Rosetta O’Neale (original name) helped end the civil war when Robert E. Lee surrendered to Ulysses S. Grant and the north won. She was known as “Rebel Rose”. She proved that women could do just as good as a man in the military.
Oodgeroo Noonuccal; high school dropout; domestic servant; divorced; deceased; this is not all she is known for.