CALL FOR PAPERS North American Women and World War One Saturday, 4 November 2017 University of Worcester, Henwick Grove, Worcester, WR2 6AJ The University of Worcester’s annual Women’s History Conference seeks papers for this year’s event under…
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DEEDS NOT WORDS : The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis
Deeds Not Words: The Story of Dr Elsie Inglis To mark the centenary of her death in 2017, Edinburgh councillors decided to name a street after Doctor Elsie Inglis, heroine of the First World War and an advocate…
Jewish Book Week: Celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy
Deborah Butcher Jewish Book Week has become something of a national institution: but few realise that this popular annual celebration of Jewish literature, art and philosophy originated in Glasgow. The brainchild of the Women’s Lodge of B’nai Brith –…
I ought to have died, but I don’t do the things that I ought, Mabel Stobart 1916.
Zvezdana Popovic has followed up her information about the exhibition and service held at St Sava Church to honour British women in medical missions in Serbia and on related fronts during the Great War. Popovic spoke about the suffragists and…
Commemoration of women in foreign missions during the Great War
Zvezdana Popovic An event to commemorate the lives of the brave women in foreign medical missions in Serbia during the Great War is being held. Details appear below. However, it is worth briefly explaining the back ground to…
Serendipity in the Archives – Finding something when least expected!
One of the Manchester signatories was a woman called Marguerite AC Douglas. I had not heard of her before. I couldn’t find any reference to her in the suffrage papers nor in the 1911 census for Lancashire. Was she a suffragist? Or was she involved in the trade union or other campaigns supported by Ashton? Was she evading the 1911 census? There is no mention of her in the wonderful book about some of the women who signed the letter, Doers of the Word by Sybil Oldfield, which is an inspirational and humbling publication … I could find nothing about the elusive Marguerite Douglas and put her to the back of my mind.
But then, just when I was thinking about something else completely …
ASYLUM STAFF RECORDS: A source for studying the Home Front in World War I
There is no indication in the records as to why women left their post except in the rare instances when the word “married” has been noted … Did those women employed for less than a year leave because they were considered unsuitable for the post or did they find the job was not for them ? A newspaper report in 1917 concerning the assault of a former nurse, Mary Elizabeth Parry, stated that after nursing at the Asylum during 1916 she left to become a clerk at the munitions factory outside Chester …
The Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act – A History of Equal Pay
Lilly Ledbetter’s eight year battle started with a little note she found in the women’s bathroom at work. The note ranked her salary alongside the much higher salaries of three male tire-room managers, and Ledbetter was shocked to see that her male peers were making $14,000 and more per year than she was. “I’d worried about being paid less than the men who were doing the same work I was,” Ledbetter records in her memoir, but she never had evidence to prove her suspicions (5). Armed with this alarming new information, Ledbetter took action and sued Goodyear for pay discrimination.
Marie Curie – Celebrating an Inspirational Woman
… a fabricated scandal was brewing over personal letters published by a right-wing news source that were exchanged between Marie and Paul Langevin, a brilliant former pupil of Pierre’s seated in an unhappy marriage. Marie Curie’s fellow scientist Albert Einstein felt deep outrage on her behalf over this ordeal, and wrote her a letter proclaiming his support:
“I am impelled to tell you how much I have come to admire your intellect, your drive, and your honesty, and that I consider myself lucky to have made your personal acquaintance in Brussels … If the rabble continues to occupy itself with you, then simply don’t read that hogwash, but rather leave it to the reptile for whom it has been fabricated” (Einstein 6).