WOMAN RULER

GOLDA MEIR (1898 – 1978) was an Israeli teacher and politician who became the fourth Prime Minister of Israel.  Meir was elected Prime Minister of Israel on March 17, 1969, after serving as Minister of Labour and Foreign Minister. Israel's first and the world's third woman to hold such an office, she was described as the "Iron Lady" of Israeli politics. Former Prime Minister David Ben-Gurion used to call Meir "the best man in the government"; she was often portrayed as the "strong-willed, straight-talking, grey-bunned grandmother of the Jewish people".  In 1974, after the end of the Yom Kippur War, Meir resigned as prime minister. She died in 1978 of leukemia.

 

 On March 25, 1911, a fire broke out at a New York City sweatshop, located on the top three floors of the ten-story Asch Building in Manhattan.  146 of the more than 500 women, some as young as 12 years, either perished in the fire or jumped to their deaths that day. 
QUIZ: What was the name of the company for which they worked?

ANSWER:  TRIANGLE SHIRTWAIST COMPANY

 

Source NWHP.org