Professor Beate Heinemann is to become the new head of the research centre DESY. On 1 April 2025, she will take over as the Chairperson of DESY’s Board of Directors, to which she already belongs in ...
Beate Sirota Gordon (1923-2012), one of the last surviving members of the GHQ team that worked on drafting Japan’s postwar Constitution, recalled in the first decade of the 21st century a scene from ...
NEW YORK — Beate Sirota Gordon — the daughter of Russian Jewish parents who at 22 almost single-­handedly wrote women’s rights into the constitution of modern Japan and then kept silent about it for ...
Beate Sirota Gordon, who was born in 1923 in Vienna to Russian-Jewish parents, was only 22 years old when she helped write women’s rights into the modern constitution of Japan. Gottesfeld calls Gordon ...