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The Women Who Inspire Team GOJO – Honoring Women's History Month
3/1/2022
By Samantha Williams
Strategic Communications Vice President, GOJO Industries
March is Women's History Month – a time to pause and reflect on the contributions women have made to history, culture, and society. GOJO has a long and robust history of female leadership, starting 75 years ago with our co-founder, Goldie Lippman, and some of the first employees of GOJO: Eleanor Morris, Wave Swigert, and Nancy Foose, whom we honored last year during Women's History Month.
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Paving the Way – Annie Easley and Mary Jackson
2/22/2022
By Stephanie Onderko
Supply Chain Manufacturing and Distribution Engineering Senior Director, GOJO Industries
Its Black History Month, an opportunity to celebrate, recognize, and highlight the contributions of Black individuals throughout history. In this post, I'd like to reflect on the stories and contributions of two awe-inspiring trailblazers in the Science, Technology, Engineering and Medicine (STEM) fields – Annie Easley and Mary Jackson. Here’s a little background on both women.
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Remembering African American Inventor, Jerry Lawson – The Father of the Video Game Cartridge
2/15/2022
By Dave Conroy
Supply Chain Systems and Controls Director
In 1976, President Gerald R. Ford Jr. decreed Black History Month a national observance. That same year, a group of early computer hobbyists founded the Homebrew Computer Club in Silicon Valley. Among its members were Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak, who went on to form Apple Computers, and two Black members, Jerry Lawson and Ron Jones.
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Lessons from African American Economist Dr. Lisa Cook
2/8/2022
By Tumi Oredein
Former Total Solution Manager – Dispensing Systems, GOJO Industries
The pain and suffering experienced by Black innovators in history (and African Americans, generally) have directly impacted the rate of African American innovation in the United States. There are countless stories of Black innovators who've stemmed the tide of racism and have given people like me a platform to be creative. This Black History Month, I want to highlight the impact of these struggles and what these sacrifices mean to me.
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Recognizing a Fellow Female Scientist in Honor of Black History Month
2/1/2022
By Dawn Yeomans, Ph.D.
Research Principal, GOJO Industries
February is Black History Month. For me, this is a time where I pause and reflect on the contributions of Black women who blazed a trail for me. As a young woman attending college in the late 1990s, I was one of only a few female biochemistry majors. Twenty years later, more than 50 percent of Ph.D.'s in the Biological Sciences are earned by women. It was the dedicated work of many female leaders that paved the road for access to advanced degrees, providing inspiration and mentorship and forging non-traditional career paths for women in the Science, Technology, Engineering, and Medicine (STEM) fields.
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GOJO Celebrates Women’s History Month as a WBENC-Certified Women’s Business Enterprise
3/31/2021
By Kimberly Morgan, MS, CDE, SHRM-CP
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Director, GOJO Industries
Women’s History Month has been celebrated annually in the United States for more than three decades, but with the dramatic changes caused by the pandemic over the past year, we are hearing more and more stories of women leading their companies through these challenging times or otherwise making significant contributions to businesses helping the world recover from the pandemic.
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GOJO Honors International Women’s Day with a Look Back at Four Women in GOJO History
3/8/2021
By Kimberly Morgan, MS, CDE, SHRM-CP
Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Senior Director, GOJO Industries
GOJO was founded in March 1946 on the heels of WWII. It was a time when women stepped into the workforce to fill roles that men had traditionally held. GOJO co-founder Goldie Lippman (pictured in 1958, left) was one of those women; she was a supervisor on the floor of a rubber factory in Akron, Ohio, then the “rubber capitol” of the world.
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