It has been six days, and so far, I am 6 (blogposts) for 6 (days). And on this sixth day, a day on which the U.S. Senate has just confirmed Janet Yellen as the first-ever female secretary of the Treasury, I am holding a creased newspaper clipping that dates all the way back to my toddler years: “House and Garden Tour To Include 5 Local Homes.”

One of those 5 local homes was my family’s, overlooking the Pacific Ocean. A reader could be forgiven, though, for thinking that only my father lived there: Of the more than 50 women referenced in the article, all but 3 were known by their husband’s first and last names–with no names of their own.

In the timespan of my life, then, we have zoomed past nameless women to inaugurating five days ago a female vice president of the U.S. with a resounding name of her own, Ms. Kamala Harris.