WOW2 is a four-times-a-month sister blog to This Week in the War on Women. This edition covers trailblazing women and events from March 17 through 24.
The next WOW2 edition will post on Saturday, March 26, 2022.
The purpose of WOW2 is to learn about and honor women of achievement, including many who’ve been ignored or marginalized in most of the history books, and to mark moments in women’s history. It also serves as a reference archive of women’s history. There are so many more phenomenal women than I ever dreamed of finding, and all too often their stories are almost unknown, even to feminists and scholars.
has posted, so be sure to go there next, and catch up on the latest dispatches from the frontlines:
Many, many thanks to libera nos, intrepid Assistant Editor of WOW2. Any remaining mistakes are either mine, or uncaught computer glitches in transferring the data from his emails to DK5. And much thanks to wow2lib, WOW2’s Librarian Emeritus.
These trailblazers have a lot to teach us about persistence in the face of overwhelming odds. I hope you will find reclaiming our past as much of an inspiration as I do.
By two weeks old, golden lion tamarin infants are carried on their father’s back nearly 24/7. Dad hands them over to their mother one at a time every two to three hours, then she nurses the baby for around 15 minutes and hands it back to its father. The infants will ride on the father’s back until they are six to seven weeks old. At four weeks, the babies begin to eat soft food, and it’s the father’s job to peel and mash bananas and hand-feed them to his offspring.
These primates live in Brazil’s coastal forests – there were only a couple of hundred left in the wild by the late 1960s when a captive breeding and reintroduction program brought their numbers back up, but continued deforestation is threatening them with extinction yet again.