However, says Ensmenger, the presence of these women did not indicate that managers of the ENIAC project had modern attitudes toward women in the workforce.
But they came home with firsthand experience of the mismatch between modern warfare and the policies limiting women's role.
Although an estimated 2 million women in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa live with untreated obstetric fistula, according to the Fistula Foundation, it's unlikely for these women to meet or hear of anyone else suffering from the same injuries, because of the lack of modern forms of communication and also the women's reluctance to discuss the condition, Heller says.
This month, the English language debut of the European bestseller by French philosopher Elisabeth Badinter, "The Conflict: How Modern Motherhood Undermines the Status of Women, " is already causing a stir.
On 27 January, the topics of discussion will be the contribution of chemistry to modern life, the place of women in chemistry and the links between chemistry and sustainable development.
The women of modern Turkey, the author argues, owe their relative emancipation to Ataturk's modernising and secularising reforms.
They knew the line was very much on the pulse of what modern women would want in their wardrobes seasonally.
Lena Schoneborn of Germany won the gruelling women's modern pentathlon competition from Britain's Heather Fell, with Victoria Tereshuk of the Ukraine taking the bronze medal.
The film reveals a striking contrast between young modern women and their sisters respecting all the codes of their ancestral culture never seen before.
It's that designer's touch that has made Harlen Wheatley and the men and women like him the heart of the modern wine, beer and spirit community.
Since the early 20th century, women were told that breast milk alternatives were the modern, scientific, superior and American way to go.
Dowd cites the remarkable success of the trilogy among Generation X women -- the contemporaries, allies and beneficiaries of the modern feminist movement.
Nancy Balfour was one of a remarkable group of women who helped to make the modern Economist.
The women are up against 2011 winner Modern Family, Bing Bang Theory and the decidedly dudely Curb Your Enthusiasm.
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The modern classic, Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus, will soon celebrate its 20th birthday, and a major motion picture is in the works.
The two foundations have also worked together to reduce tobacco use, and to offer family planning services and modern birth control to women around the world.
ObamaCare may be harder for conservatives to strike down than banning guns near schools or violence against women, two cases in the modern era in which the court overturned laws for exceeding congressional power.
When we think of the women who ran for president in modern times, many of them were formidable candidates with great ideas, and had they lived in a different time, we may have elected them.
"New generations around the world always like to try new things, they are discovering themselves, " said Hala Kazim, an Emirati who runs a program devoted to helping other women deal with the stresses of modern Gulf society.
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Despite a failed attempt at an Apprentice-type show, she has partnered with KB Home to sell Martha-branded houses, signed a deal with Macy's and plans to launch a new magazine, called Blueprint, to cater to "modern, multitasking" women between the ages of 25 and 45.
Despite a failed attempt at an Apprentice-type show, she has partnered with KB Home (nyse: KBH - news - people ) to sell Martha-branded houses, signed a deal with Macy's and plans to launch a new magazine, called Blueprint, to cater to "modern, multitasking" women between the ages of 25 and 45.
Smoke from cooking "may have been an occupational hazard before the modern kitchen, " he said, putting those women at risk.
Whereas daughters and wives once stayed at home to clean, cook and care for husbands, children and ageing parents, modern French women expect a life outside the home.
The horrible internal conflict between emotion and logic that confronts every new mother returning to work strikes me as one of the unfair circumstances our biology and modern age impose on women.
Wade, " said Edward Lazarus -- a former law clerk for Blackmun and an author of "Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court"-- "is that it's necessary for the equality of women, rather than grounding it in the privacy right.
While women in Western countries frequently note the tension and struggles they face in this new age of modern feminism where they are supposed to have it all, the concept is lost on many of the women I meet in Southeast Asia.
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The Minister of Women's Rights, Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, said that the ban was incompatible with modern French values and laws.
It was an endeavor that sought to bring modern, secularized culture to the lives of young Muslim women, supporting their emancipation without demeaning their religion or their heritage--and it worked.
But increasingly, the women who look the most beautiful and the most modern seem to be wearing little or no makeup.
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Dr Kuhn and Dr Stiner, by contrast, assign to women the main role in establishing the antecedents of modern economics, and thus launching the process of growth that continues to this day.
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