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Flipboard Culture DeskDid 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? <a href="https://flipboard.com/@19thnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@19thnews</a> 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.<a href="https://flip.it/.HKAIr" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://flip.it/.HKAIr</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DEI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DEI</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://a.gup.pe/u/histodons" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@histodons</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/DiversityEquityInclusion" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DiversityEquityInclusion</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/TrumpAdministration" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#TrumpAdministration</a>

Common SparrowToday'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. <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BookRecommendations" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#BookRecommendations</a>

Electronic Frontier FoundationWhen you see the dominance of big tech companies, you need to consider how strong enforcement of antitrust and competition laws can change the world. As the U.S. FTC's youngest chair, legal scholar Lina Khan brought new life to debates about monopolies and market power in tech. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/CanadianHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CanadianHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

Angu Walters African PaintingsPainting of the Day. New Born II > > <a href="https://www.artcameroon.com/new-born-2-african-women-baby/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.artcameroon.com/new-born-2-african-women-baby/</a> 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 <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/AfricanArt" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AfricanArt</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/paintingoftheday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#paintingoftheday</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/newborn" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#newborn</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/motherhood" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherhood</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mastodon.world/tags/womeninspiringwomen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womeninspiringwomen</a>

Electronic Frontier FoundationThe first woman to win a major Starcraft II tournament, Sasha "Scarlett" Hostyn shows that gaming is for everybody. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

FlipboardWomen have been playing baseball in the U.S. for 150 years, with the first professional team, the Dolly Vardens, being formed in 1867. <a href="https://newsie.social/@TheConversationUS" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@TheConversationUS</a> 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.<a href="https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Sport" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sport</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Sports" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Sports</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Baseball" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Baseball</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Women" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Women</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

FlipboardThe 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 <a href="https://mastodon.social/@gbhnews" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@gbhnews</a>’s story on how Senate President Karen Spilka is trying to change that. <a href="https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2025-03-27/busts-of-abigail-adams-elizabeth-freeman-planned-to-diversify-state-house-art" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.wgbh.org/news/politics/2025-03-27/busts-of-abigail-adams-elizabeth-freeman-planned-to-diversify-state-house-art</a><a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Boston" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Boston</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Massachusetts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Massachusetts</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/Newstodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Newstodon</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/NewstodonFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#NewstodonFriday</a> <a href="https://flipboard.social/tags/FollowFriday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#FollowFriday</a>

Electronic Frontier FoundationIda Rhodes immigrated to the U.S. from a Jewish village in Ukraine in 1913, rose to prominence in mathematics as an adult, went on to co-design the C-10 language for the Univac I computer, and designed the original program used by the U.S. Social Security Administration. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

Electronic Frontier FoundationAttorney and activist Reshma Saujani founded Girls Who Code in 2010 to help increase diversity in tech, empowering women to get into computer science. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 28 Mar 1900, Queen Yaa Asantewa leads an army of 5,000 to fight colonial Britain's attempts to rule the Asante region.Read more: <a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/yaa-asantewaa/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/AfricanHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AfricanHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/Histodons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Histodons</a>

The Conversation U.S.A new Women's Pro Baseball League is set to launch in 2026 with six teams in the northeastern US. With over 500 players from 11 countries registered, scouting and drafts are on the horizon: <a href="https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://theconversation.com/women-are-reclaiming-their-place-in-baseball-252590</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/SportsHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#SportsHistory</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://newsie.social/tags/openingday" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#openingday</a>

MikeDunnAuthorToday 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.” <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/workingclass" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#workingclass</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/LaborHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LaborHistory</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colorado</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/union" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#union</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/strike" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#strike</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/mining" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#mining</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/motherjones" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#motherjones</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WorkplaceViolence" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WorkplaceViolence</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/scabs" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scabs</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/coal" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#coal</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/pinkertons" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#pinkertons</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/colorado" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#colorado</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/minewars" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#minewars</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/wfm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#wfm</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/WesternFederationOfMiners" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WesternFederationOfMiners</a> <a href="https://kolektiva.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

Electronic Frontier FoundationGaming can be for everybody. Women have long played important roles in gamer communities and behind the scenes. Carol Shaw was among the first female game designers at Atari in the 70s and 80s and she's best known for creating River Raid at Activision in 1982. <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womenshistorymonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womenshistorymonth</a>

CarveHerName<a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OnThisDay" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OnThisDay</a>, 26 Mar 1974, Gaura Devi and 27 village women prevent the logging of trees in the village of Rini in the Himalayas. They confront armed men from the lumber company and hug the trees to stop them being felled.<a href="https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://carvehername.org.uk/women-fighting-deforestation-gaura-devi/</a><a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomenInHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomenInHistory</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/OTD" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#OTD</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/History" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#History</a> <a href="https://mstdn.social/tags/WomensHistory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistory</a>#Histodons

Ben Royce 🇺🇦an interesting connection:it was <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/LordByron" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LordByron</a> who proposed the <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ghostStory" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ghostStory</a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/writingContest" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#writingContest</a> that led to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaryShelley</a> writing "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frankenstein</a>", and he was the father of another <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a> notable: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AdaLovelace" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AdaLovelace</a>her story is well known, but less well known is that she predicted <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AI" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AI</a>she rejected ither rejection was not without teeth, because the first non-<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scienceFiction</a> champion of AI, <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/AlanTuring" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#AlanTuring</a>, spent an inordinate amount of time refuting her critique<a href="https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.nist.gov/blogs/taking-measure/ada-lovelace-worlds-first-computer-programmer-who-predicted-artificial</a>

Ben Royce 🇺🇦What do many consider the first <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scienceFiction" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#scienceFiction</a>?One of the first works of <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/horror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#horror</a> (certainly <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/bodyHorror" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#bodyHorror</a>)?<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/MaryShelley" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#MaryShelley</a>'s "<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Frankenstein" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Frankenstein</a>"Written as a *teenager*A teenager who had recently lost a babyI think that's keyHorror not from taking lifeBut creating lifeShe went to Switzerland with her lover Percy Shelley who was fleeing creditors in BritainThe summer was cold and rainy so Lord Byron (yes him) proposed a ghost story writing contestI think she won<a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/womensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#womensHistoryMonth</a>

InfoSecSherpaMarch 25th <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> 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." 🇸🇹 <a href="https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/library-weekly/alda-do-espirito-santo" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://www.ascleiden.nl/content/library-weekly/alda-do-espirito-santo</a>

InfoSecSherpaMarch 24th <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> spotlight:"Vigdís Finnbogadóttir is an Icelandic politician and former president of Iceland. She was the first woman to be democratically elected as head of state in the world, serving as the president of Iceland from 1980 to 1996." 🇮🇸 <a href="http://www.wic.org/bio/finnboga.htm" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">http://www.wic.org/bio/finnboga.htm</a>

InfoSecSherpaMarch 23rd <a href="https://infosec.exchange/tags/WomensHistoryMonth" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WomensHistoryMonth</a> spotlight:"Whetū Tirikātene-Sullivan was New Zealand’s first Māori woman cabinet minister, its longest-serving woman MP, and a staunch advocate in Parliament for Māori interests." 🇳🇿 <a href="https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6t6/tirikatene-sullivan-tini-whetu-marama" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank">https://teara.govt.nz/en/biographies/6t6/tirikatene-sullivan-tini-whetu-marama</a>

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