Wonder Women

Why is this podcast necessary? An introduction to Megan & Dominique and the inspiration behind this series.

The women who created Hollywood and how they were kicked out of power.

Have you heard of WWII code-breakers? Genevieve Grotjan Feinstein was a phenomenal U.S. codebreaker who decoded the infamous Japanese "PURPLE" code, allowing the U.S. to decode Japanese diplomatic messages during WWII.

A WWII spy.

Martha "Mattie" Hughes Cannon was a nineteenth-century doctor, woman's suffragist, and the first-ever female state senator. She was also the fourth wife of a Mormon polygamist. Her story is full of paradoxes, and defies stereotypes.

An Olympic sprint gold medalist who could not walk until she was twelve.

Chien-Shuing Wu was a world-renowned physicist whose career spanned five decades. She emigrated from China to the United States in the 1930s, where she pursued her education at UC Berkeley, later becoming a full professor at Columbia University. She was well-known for her work in beta decay and subatomic physics, and has often been called the "Chinese Marie Curie."

A Native American woman who helped get legislation passed to save her tribal lands.

Louisa Catherine Adams is often known as "The Other Mrs. Adams," and her story is often forgotten in Abigail Adams's fame. But, Louisa Catherine was a force to be reckoned with in her own right as a political and diplomatic hostess, diarist, and the first First Lady to ever have been born outside of the United States.