Com o objetivo de responder aos desafios físicos e emocionais que acompanham a transição para a menopausa, uma equipa de investigação da Universidade de Coimbra (UC) desenvolveu e está a testar um programa de intervenção psicológica para ajudar as mulheres nesta fase das suas vidas. Denominado Cuidar-ME – Autocuidado durante a Menopausa: uma intervenção psicológica […]

On June 21, 1913, a tiny woman weighing barely 80 pounds climbed into an airplane over Los Angeles and prepared to do something no woman had ever done before. Suspended outside the aircraft in a small swing-like seat, Georgia Ann “Tiny” Broadwick pulled a release lever and dropped into empty space. Moments later, her parachute blossomed overhead and she drifted safely to earth. With that leap, Tiny Broadwick became the first woman to parachute from an airplane.

Yet this remarkable feat was only one chapter in her extraordinary career. A year later, during a military demonstration, she would help pioneer a technique that evolved into the modern ripcord, forever changing the way parachutists escaped from aircraft.

Broadwick ready to drop from an airplane piloted by Glenn Martin. Credit: Wikimedia Commons