TY - BOOK AU - CLACK,George TI - About America: women of influence SN - (pbk.) PY - 2006/// CY - USA PB - U.S. Department of State, KW - ENGLISH FICTION N2 - Offers a glimpse at how women in one country, the United States have helped shape their society. These notable women from the Native-American Sacagawea, who guided white settlers through a vast wilderness; to Sojourner Truth, who fought for the end of slavery and equal rights for all; to Rosalyn Yalow, winner of the Nobel Prize in Medicine for a new technique for measuring substances in the blood believed that they had a contribution to make and did not shrink from the obstacles in their way ER -