Here's a consolidated thread of all my #WomensHistoryMonth posts March 1-31!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1895911235834835207.html

Frances Perkins became the first female Cabinet member when she was confirmed as Secretary of Labor under FDR in 1933 and served in that post until 1945, to date the longest serving head of the Labor Dept. #WomensHistoryMonth #WHM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frances_Perkins

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A final #WomensHistoryMonth tip of the to all the women who continue to push our game forward!

Getting involved in the community is a calling and Darcy Estrada answered that call.

On the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm sharing a poem for all the women we are and were and will be. -M.

i have been a thousand different women
by Emory Hall

make peace
with all the women
you once were.

lay flowers
at their feet.

offer them incense
and honey
and forgiveness.

honor them
and give them
your silence.

listen.

bless them
and let them be.

for they are the bones
of the temple
you sit in now.

for they are
the rivers
of wisdom
leading you toward
the sea.

To end #WomensHistoryMonth 2025, I have written a blog post about why Alice Thornton (1626-1707) wrote (at least) four accounts of her life.
https://www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/3-funerals-and-wedding-seventeenth-century-womans-reasons-writing-0
@litstudies @histodons @earlymodern @histodon #EarlyModern #WomenInHistory

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.

https://flip.it/.HKAIr
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #DEI #History @histodons #DiversityEquityInclusion #TrumpAdministration

"Women in baseball are changing the game for the next generation."

Patty Gasso is the legendary softball coach at The University of Oklahoma, and she will lead Team USA in the 2028 Olympic Games. #WomensHistoryMonth

Here's to all the women who continue to inspire and make the sports world a better place #WomensHistoryMonth

"There has never been a more important moment to make our actions count" - @tansy

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our event platforming 4 incredible women from our network who fight for garment workers' rights.
While their stories differed, they were united in their conviction that collective action and solidarity is the best route to justice.

Don't worry if you missed it - we recorded it especially! Catch up here: https://vimeo.com/1070387466

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.

#OnThisDay, 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.