Don’t miss our rescheduled Women’s History Month Special Seminar featuring Professor Karen Harvey, who will be sharing her research in a paper titled ‘Women’s Embodied Lives in Letters: Britain, 1680-1820’! Wednesday, 7 June 2023, at 4pm BST/GMT+1 Sign-up now for…
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WHN Schools History Prize 2023
March is Women’s History Month and the Schools’ Prize provides a fantastic opportunity for students to become immersed in ‘doing’ history. This year we would like to invite students to create a poster which illustrates The poster, can be created…
27th April 2022: Women’s History Month – Homes of Women Writers Lunchtime Roundtable
For the second of our special Women’s History Month seminars, we invite you to join us for a roundtable session with several key figures from museums and collections centred around celebrated women writers. We’ll be sitting down with Sally Jastrzebski-Lloyd,…
20th April 2022: Women’s History Month – In Conversation with Friends of the Factories (Community History Prizewinners 2021)
To kick off Women’s History Month, join us for the first of two special seminars! Yvonne Norris from Friends of the Factories speaks to WHN’s Helen Antrobus about their 2021 Community History Prize-winning campaign. Wednesday, 20th April 2022, 4pm GMT…
WICKED WITCHES AND EVIL QUEENS
Wicked witches and evil queens: why children’s books need more female villains March 23, 2018 1.09am AEDT Still from Disney’s Alice Through the Looking Glass (2016) (This is the best reproduction of the photo that could be accomplished here.…
ORLANDO: WOMEN’S WRITING IN THE BRITISH ISLES
NOTICE Orlando: Women’s Writing in the British Isles from the Beginnings to the Present” will again be free during March, Women’s History Month, at orlando.cambridge.org/. Username womenshistory17 Pword orlando17 Since last March we have added 2 new entries,…
Discrimination – A Coat of Many Colors
[In the General Motors (GM) case] … to [outlaw] sex and race discrimination [experienced by individuals or a group], the courts would have had to recognize a new minority classification, African American females. The court opposed the creation of any new classifications proposing that, “the creation of new classes of protected minorities, governed only by the mathematical principles of permutation and combination, [would] clearly raise[*] the prospect of opening the hackneyed Pandora’s box.” If the women had been able to show that they had been victims of discrimination because they were black or because they were women they would have had a case, but because GM was not discriminatory against white women nor black men, the women had no legal case.
Margaret Sanger – Fighting for Reproductive Rights
Margaret Sanger treated many women who had illegal and dangerous abortion procedures. She fought for birth control information and contraception to be made available, and found it essential to women’s health for this information to be legal … It was very dangerous for Sanger to provide her services and information and she often risked jail time in order to help women.
In 1914, Sanger started The Woman Rebel, a feminist publication. She wanted to provide women with information about contraception. Sanger openly challenged the state and federal Comstock Act, which criminalized contraceptives (“American Experience: Margaret Sanger”). In 1916, Sanger was arrested for opening the first birth control clinic in the country. She worked toward better forms of contraception other than the diaphragm, which was expensive. Sanger helped with the creation of Enovid, the first oral contraceptive …
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.