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#womenshistorymonth

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Did you get the sense that Women's History Month was a bit of a damp squib this year, with fewer people writing about and discussing the annual observance, which started in 1987? @19thnews discusses why that might have been the case: Trump's anti-DEI moves have killed or maimed some efforts to celebrate women's achievements, from an Ohio conference to Defense Department web pages.

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#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #DEI #History @histodons #DiversityEquityInclusion #TrumpAdministration

The 19th · Did politics kill Women’s History Month?By Amanda Becker
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Today's book recommendation for Women's History Month is "Breaking the Ice Ceiling: How the Icelandic Women's Day Strike Shattered Patriarchy" by Sarah Johnson, a brief 50-page account of the 1975 "Women's Day Off" strike in Iceland.

I found this book in a "Little Free Library", but was unable to find a link to a current publisher, so it is possible it's now out of print. But this was an event which I'd never heard of before, and which I found so fascinating that I'm going ahead and recommending the book anyway. Maybe you can dig up a used copy as I did.

On October 24, 1975, the women of Iceland went on a daylong strike. An amazing 90% of Icelandic women participated. Those who had paid employment did not go to work. Those who were housewives did no household tasks or child care. The strike brought the country to a standstill.

Schools closed for lack of teachers. Telephone service shut down without telephone operators. Canneries shut down without the women who worked there. Typesetters were mostly women, so newspapers were not printed. Workplaces saw an influx of children, as their fathers brought the kids to work with them for lack of child care.

The aftermath was a national reckoning with the situation of women. The following year, Iceland saw passage of a Gender Equality law, and five years later, Iceland elected the world's first woman president. Today, Iceland has one of the smallest gender wage gaps in the world.

#WomensHistoryMonth#BookRecommendations
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Angu Walters African Paintings

Painting of the Day. New Born II
> > artcameroon.com/new-born-2-afr
Here is an acrylic painting of African women come to welcome a new baby and to show support for the mother. It's full of warmth and love, and it captures the special bond between women, especially mothers, who look out for one another.
Angu Walters
70 x 50 cm
28 x 20 in
$800 original / $135 art print / Free delivery / Inquiries welcome
#AfricanArt #paintingoftheday #newborn #motherhood #WomensHistoryMonth #womeninspiringwomen

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Women have been playing baseball in the U.S. for 150 years, with the first professional team, the Dolly Vardens, being formed in 1867. @TheConversationUS takes a look at how girls were gradually funnelled towards softball — seen as more suitable for the “weaker” female body — and why a new era in women’s baseball may be about to begin.

theconversation.com/women-are-

The ConversationWomen are reclaiming their place in baseballMany Americans see baseball as a sport for men and softball as a sport for women. It wasn’t always this way in the US – and it isn’t that way in the rest of the world.
#Sport#Sports#Baseball
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The Massachusetts State House has one of the oldest public art collections in the country with more than 300 works — of which only 20 depict women. Here’s @gbhnews’s story on how Senate President Karen Spilka is trying to change that.

wgbh.org/news/politics/2025-03

A blonde woman in a black jacket stands in front of an empty alcove in the Massachusetts Senate chamber. A bearded man is in the background, in front of the white brick walls.
GBH · Busts of Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Freeman planned to diversify State House artBy Katie Lannan
#WomensHistoryMonth#WomensHistory#Boston
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Today In Labor History March 27, 1904: The authorities kicked Mother Jones out of Colorado for “stirring-up” striking coal miners. Earlier in March, the authorities deported 60 striking miners from Colorado. In June, they arrested 22 in Telluride. For nearly 2 years, strikers, led by the Western Federation of Miners, were violently attacked by Pinkerton and Baldwin-Felts detectives. 33 strikers were killed. At least two scholars have said “There is no episode in American labor history in which violence was as systematically used by employers as in the Colorado labor war of 1903 and 1904.”

Image of Mother Jones, in glasses and bonnet, with the caption "If they want to hang me, let them. And on the scaffold I will shout 'Freedom for the working class.'"
#workingclass#LaborHistory#colorado
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

an interesting connection:

it was #LordByron who proposed the #ghostStory #writingContest that led to #MaryShelley writing "#Frankenstein", and he was the father of another #womensHistoryMonth notable: #AdaLovelace

her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted #AI

she rejected it

her rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-#scienceFiction champion of AI, #AlanTuring, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique

nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/

NIST researcher Justyna Zwolak reads a book about Ada Lovelace to her young daughter
NIST · Ada Lovelace: The World’s First Computer Programmer Who Predicted Artificial IntelligenceDuring Women’s History Month, I am remembering Ada Lovelace’s contributions and thinking about the impact she had on me as a scientist and mathematician
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Ben Royce 🇺🇦

What do many consider the first #scienceFiction?

One of the first works of #horror (certainly #bodyHorror)?

#MaryShelley's "#Frankenstein"

Written as a *teenager*

A teenager who had recently lost a baby

I think that's key

Horror not from taking life

But creating life

She went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in Britain

The summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a ghost story writing contest

I think she won

May Shelley
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March 25th #WomensHistoryMonth spotlight:

"Alda do Espírito Santo (1926 – 2010) – was the first woman in Africa to publish poetry in Portuguese. She was a proud African liberationist who became a well-known figure in Sao Tome and Principe’s fight for independence. Her contributions were so impactful that following the country’s independence in 1975, she held several important offices in the government." 🇸🇹

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Alda Neves da Graça do Espírito Santo (30 April 1926 – 9 March 2010[1]), known as Alda do Espírito Santo or Alda Graça, was a poet from São Tomé and Príncipe working in the Portuguese language. She also served in the Santomean government after the country's independence.
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