Michael B. Bateham and Sullivan D. Harris and me

The problem with spring cleaning is you stop to look things up.  When I found two copies of Ohio Farmer, July 1998, in the laundry room, I decided to look up my article in that journal, "A passion for writing agriculture" (I think the editor supplied the title). But that search also brought up, The Serials Librarian: From the Printed Page to the Digital Age, Issue 2, 1999, Norma J. Brace [misspelled my name], A Commitment to Women— The Ohio Cultivator and The Ohio Farmer of the Nineteenth Century.  Serials Librarian used to combine articles into special issues, maybe still does if it exists today. Both men had successful careers in publishing and I had a lot of fun researching their lives.  What is shocking is they want $41 for the article, or $162 for the issue! Really, if you need this, try Interlibrary Loan. Or, I probably have a hundred or so stashed somewhere.

From 1845 to 1865 the editors of two Ohio agricultural periodicals encouraged women authors, editors and poets by publishing their fiction, essays, poetry and household advice. Thomas Brown of The Ohio Farmer a weekly family newspaper out of Cleveland, and Michael B. Bateham and Sullivan D. Harris of The Ohio Cultivator a semi-monthly journal published in Columbus, offered discussions of woman's suffrage, female higher education, domestic issues and temperance in the columns of Josephine Bateham, Frances Dana Gage, Anna Hope, Hannah Tracy Cutler and Metta Fuller Victor, among others.

Pay equity for women

"According to a new analysis of 2,000 communities by a market research company, in 147 out of 150 of the biggest cities in the U.S., the median full-time salaries of young women are 8% higher than those of the guys in their peer group. In two cities, Atlanta and Memphis, those women are making about 20% more. This squares with earlier research from Queens College, New York, that had suggested that this was happening in major metropolises. But the new study suggests that the gap is bigger than previously thought, with young women in New York City, Los Angeles and San Diego making 17%, 12% and 15% more than their male peers, respectively. And it also holds true even in reasonably small areas like the Raleigh-Durham region and Charlotte in North Carolina (both 14% more), and Jacksonville, Fla. (6%)." 
From "7 facts you need to know to debunk the ‪#‎EqualPayDay‬ lie."

The new girl on the soccer team

 Don't kid yourself. What they really want are slots on the women's sports teams. Toilets? Heck, they can use the bushes. But since gender no longer means the shape or presence of genitalia, and DNA at the cellular level doesn't change anyway--they can test the mother's blood for sex of the baby as early as 7 weeks--think what the lighter weight, smaller male athlete with superior oxygen use because of his maleness can do on the girls' soccer, golf, archery, cross country and rowing team, when he can't make it competing against men. Women's hearts are smaller and that affects how the blood and oxygen makes it to and through the muscles, obviously affecting endurance and training. But once the government has decided some guys aren't males because of how they "feel," you're just a bigot if your daughter or granddaughter doesn't place and you complain about the "girl" with the hairy legs, muscular arms and a penis.

http://www.curvemag.com/Lifestyle/Transgender-Rights-and-Sports-411/ 

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2576016/Transgender-woman-sues-CrossFit-competition.html