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Welcome to WomensHistory!

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A woman's place WAS NOT in the home: Female workers in 17th century Britain played a critical role in the economy, researchers conclude (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Question Any historians here? (Prostitution in medieval times)

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Fashion's most influential woman you've never heard of... and the designers who have been stealing from her ever since (www.dailymail.co.uk)

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Trivia Venetia Burney the 11 Year Old Girl who named the Planet Pluto! There is also an Asteroid named after her called Burney 6235! (en.wikipedia.org)

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Resources The Hidden Lives of Viking Women (the-past.com)

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Overlooked No More: Inge Lehmann, Who Discovered the Earth’s Inner Core (www.nytimes.com)

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Travel as activism: 6 stories of Black women who refused to ‘stay put’ in apartheid South Africa (theconversation.com)

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Razia Jan, 81, Who Built an Enduring Girls’ School in Afghanistan, Dies (www.nytimes.com)

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Maria Agnesi, the Greatest Female Mathematician You've Never Heard of | Scientific American (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Videos She Who Wrote: Enheduanna and Women of Mesopotamia, ca. 3400–2000 B.C. - YouTube (www.youtube.com)

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Videos 1979 Iran: women protest compulsory hijab. (youtu.be)

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Discussion Recommend to read: Mary Daly - Gyn/Ecology

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12,000-Year-Old Figurine Uncovered in Northern Israel (archaeology.org)

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Article See the Face of a 10,500-Year-Old Woman, Reconstructed by Archaeologists and Artists (www.smithsonianmag.com)

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Article some history of women in mathematics

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Videos The Distaff and Female Power by Feminist Scholar Max Dashu

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Why modern witches are making pilgrimages to an ancient Turkish temple (www.cnn.com)

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Article In England and its colonies, accused witches weren’t burnt – but wives who defied their husbands were (theconversation.com)

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Article Carol Greitzer, trailblazing NYC political reformer and women’s advocate, dies at 101 (www.nydailynews.com)

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Article United Airlines Pilot Reaches Milestone For Women In Aviation (www.forbes.com)

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The Roman Women's Protest of 42 BCE (www.dailykos.com)

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Article This Mizrahi Feminist Hanukkah Tradition Is One We Should All Honor (www.kveller.com)

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Article Eileen Higgins, after win in runoff race, set to be Miami's 1st female mayor, 1st Democrat in almost 3 decades (abcnews.go.com)

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The Unconventional Life of Mary Walker, the Only Woman to Have Received the U.S. Medal of Honor (www.atlasobscura.com)

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Did women develop spoken language?

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