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Womanica

Best Of: Maria Agnesi

Womanica

Acast Creative Studios

History, Society & Culture, Education

4.3920 Ratings

🗓️ 12 September 2024

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Summary

This back to school season, we're bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. Today's Womanican is Maria Agnesi (1718-1799). She did groundbreaking work in the field of mathematics, creating a two-volume textbook that helped to shape math education. Later, she gave up her academic success to serve the poor and live in poverty.

This month, we’re heading back to school – and we’re taking you along with us! For all of September, we’ll be bringing back some of our favorite Womanica episodes you might have missed. You’ll hear me – and some talented guest hosts – share both iconic and under-appreciated stories. But there’s a twist... each week is dedicated to a different school subject. This week: Women you should be learning about in math classes!

History classes can get a bad rap, and sometimes for good reason. When we were students, we couldn’t help wondering... where were all the ladies at? Why were so many incredible stories missing from the typical curriculum? Enter, Womanica. On this Wonder Media Network podcast we explore the lives of inspiring women in history you may not know about, but definitely should.

Every weekday, listeners explore the trials, tragedies, and triumphs of groundbreaking women throughout history who have dramatically shaped the world around us. In each 5 minute episode, we’ll dive into the story behind one woman listeners may or may not know–but definitely should. These diverse women from across space and time are grouped into easily accessible and engaging monthly themes like Educators, Villains, Indigenous Storytellers, Activists, and many more. Womanica is hosted by WMN co-founder and award-winning journalist Jenny Kaplan. The bite-sized episodes pack painstakingly researched content into fun, entertaining, and addictive daily adventures.

Womanica was created by Liz Kaplan and Jenny Kaplan, executive produced by Jenny Kaplan, and produced by Grace Lynch, Maddy Foley, Brittany Martinez, Edie Allard, Lindsey Kratochwill, Adesuwa Agbonile, Carmen Borca-Carrillo, Taylor Williamson, Sara Schleede, Paloma Moreno Jimenez, Luci Jones, Abbey Delk, Hannah Bottum, Lauren Willams, and Adrien Behn. Special thanks to Shira Atkins. Original theme music composed by Miles Moran.

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7m Films and Shakina Church and we're the host of the new podcast,

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Forgive Me For I Have Followed.

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Together, we'll be diving even deeper

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into the unbelievable stories

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behind 7M Films and Shakina Church.

0:22.0

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0:27.0

podcast.

0:30.8

For decades the mafia had New York City in a stranglehold with law enforcement

0:35.6

seemingly powerless to intervene. It uses terror to extort people. But the

0:42.2

murder of Carmay Galante marked the murder of Carmichaelante

0:43.9

marked the beginning of the end.

0:45.8

It sent the message that we can prosecute these people.

0:50.6

Listen to law and order criminal justice system on the I Heart Radio app, Apple Podcast, or wherever you get your podcasts.

0:58.0

Hey, I'm Jiano Predente.

1:03.4

And I'm Jame Jackson Gadsden.

1:05.1

We're the host of Let's Talk offline from LinkedIn News and I-Heart Podcasts.

1:08.8

There's a lot to figure out when you're just starting your career.

1:11.5

That's where we come in. Think of us as your work besties you can

1:14.3

turn to for advice. And if we don't know the answer, we bring in people who do, like negotiation

1:19.1

expert Maury to Harry Poor. If you start thinking about negotiations as just a conversation then I think it sort of eases us a little bit.

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