At their first dinner, a woman showed up with a mummified South American Indian head \u2013 only a hint of the Earthly oddities the Society of Women Geographers chased.<\/p>\n
The whole thing started when a group of well-traveled and sharp as hell women wanted in on the all-male Explorer\u2019s Club, to which the men turned up their noses and said, \u201cYou\u2019re not welcome here.\u201d<\/p>\n
Over tea, the women said \u201cFine, we\u2019ll start our own girl gang then,\u201d and in 1932 the Society came to be. The only prerequisite for joining: \u201cOnly women who have really done things.\u201d<\/p>\n
Amelia Earhart, Margaret Mead, and Jane Goodall all became members, and the society continues today. While they\u2019ve put to rest the practice of exhibiting human remains at celebrations, they do continue to give inquisitive women a boost, offering fellowships to the best travelers and geographers who keep looking for the underbelly.<\/p>\n
Born of oppression, these women spun and continue to spin straw into gold and this, we celebrate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
At their first dinner, a woman showed up with a mummified South American Indian head \u2013 only a hint of the Earthly oddities the Society of Women Geographers chased. The whole thing started when a group of well-traveled and sharp as hell women wanted in on the all-male Explorer\u2019s Club, to which the men turned up their noses and said,\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7158,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[746,60,747,360,748,749,750,314,751],"class_list":["post-1026","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-breaking-bread","category-new-paths","tag-amelia-earhart","tag-feminism","tag-geography","tag-history","tag-jane-goodall","tag-margaret-mead","tag-our-past","tag-science","tag-society-of-women-geographers"],"yoast_head":"\n