#WOMENSHISTORY

Ruth A. M. Schmidt standing next to a "Danger" barrier with Alaskan mountains and glaciers in the background

4/22/1917 — b. Ruth A. M. Schmidt, American geologist, paleontologist, environmentalist, educator. Part of the Military Geology Unit (WWII)+US Geological Survey, Washington, DC during McCarthyism(1946-55). Founder, USGS field office, U of Alaska #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #GeoSky #PaleoSky #HIstSci

999 8 Screenings - 7 Days! Orange County, Planview, Cleveland, Glen Rock, New London

Latest news about this #poignant and important #Holocaust #documentary #movie about the first #Jewish transport to and the amazing young #women who were on it, some of whom survived #Auschwitz #Womenshistory #Girls #survivors #WW2 #survivor #Slovakia 999themovie.com/so/7bPsjJ6ZN...

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I was reading through the Wikipedia article on Tuvan Throat Singing, and came across this sentence:

"There were a few female throat singers in Tuva's history, though it was believed a woman performing throat singing could cause infertility"
-en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tuvan_throat_singing

...and it […]

Photo of Laura Gilpin with her box camera | 1979

4/22/1891 — b. Laura Gilpin, American photographer. Encapsulated landscapes of the American Southwest; photographs of Native Americans (Navajo & Pueblo), and the indigenous peoples of the Americas and the Yucatan #womenshistory #photography #womenartists #womensart #PhotoSky

#author #mission #historicalficton #womensfiction #writingcommunity #readingcommunity #womensfiction #renaissance #ancientrome #art #book #read #authorlife #literaryfiction #women #authority #womenshistory #womeninreligion #writinglife #writer #biographicalficion #booksky

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1976: Barbara Walters becomes the first female US nightly network news anchor (ABC News) #WomensHistory

Drawing of Germaine de Staël

4/22/1766 — b. Germaine de Staël, French author, critic, philosopher, #feminist, intellectual. A woman of letters; wrote novels, plays, political essays + history. Major literary contributor to the theories of Romanticism; early #womensrights champion #womenshistory #womenwriters #WriterSky #PolSky

In 1926, Gertrude Ederle became the first woman to swim the English Channel.

She also beat the men's record while she was at it. By two hours!

New York gave her a ticker-tape parade. She was 20.

The men's record didn't see her coming.

#difficultwomen #womenshistory #swimming

Our #NursesInRed #Wikipedia group are adding missing nursing organisations 💙

The RCN Foundation became an independent charity in 2010, continuing to support nurses in need across the UK
@rcnfoundation.bsky.social

#HistNursing #WomensHistory #WomenInRed #Charity

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Anna Göldi: The Last Witch Was Never a Witch On January 25, 1782, the canton of Glarus published a wanted notice in what would become the Zurich newspaper.The Reading Room is a reader-supported publication.

I brought the receipts on Anna Göldi, the last woman executed for witchcraft in Europe. Spoiler: it had nothing to do with witchcraft. Full story.
#womeninhistory #witchtrials #womenshistory
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Great 🧵 by @mcclellan.house.gov re: Virginia women elected to US Congress. #WomensHistory

Now Available! A Grand Day: The Forgotten Voice of a Farm Woman Through Dust, Depression, and War edited by Veda Rogers. This extraordinary collection gives voice to the countless women whose stories have too often gone untold: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641154/

#WomensHistory #KansasHistory

Yesterday I was speaking to Chesterfield & District Local History Society on Mary Seacole, Betsi Cadwaladr and Florence Nightingale. Thank you for hosting me and for everyone for listening to me rattle on about prejudices against female nurses. #victorian #nineteenthcentury #womenshistory

🎉 Now Available! Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery edited by Stephanie Bennett, Samantha Gill, and Tai S. Edwards. 👉 Discover the story: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641215/

#LydaConley #IndigenousHistory #WomensHistory #KansasHistory #UPKansas

Self portrait painting by Johanne Cathrine Krebs | c. 1890

4/21/1848 — b. Johanne Cathrine Krebs, Danish artist, #womensrights activist. Painter, noted for her portraiture. Co-founder, director, of the women’s department, Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (1888-08); exhibited in numerous exhibitions(1880-00) #womenshistory #womenartists #womensart #painters

40¢ Canadian stamp of Jennie Kidd Trout

4/21/1841 — b. Jennie Kidd Trout, Canadian physician, educator, feminist. The first licensed female physician in #Canada (1875) + a champion of women’s medical edu. The co-founder of the Medical and Electro-Therapeutic Institute in Toronto (1877) #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #MedSky #HistMed #EduSky

Charlotte Emerson Brown

4/21/1838 — b. Charlotte Emerson Brown, American #progressive women’s movement leader, clubwoman, educator. Co-founder + first president (1890-94) of the General Federation of Women’s Clubs. A member of influential New York wmn’s club, Sorosis #leadership #womenshistory #womensrights #PolSky #EduSky

1816: Charlotte Bronte, English novelist (Jane Eyre), born in Thornton, West Yorkshire, England #WomensHistory

1729: Catherine The Great, German-born Empress of Russia (1762-96) who expanded the Russian empire, born in Stettin, Kingdom of Prussia #WomensHistory

Rebecca Heminges (1571-1619) by Meryl Faiers, 20 April 2026Evidence of the lives of non-elite women is often fragmentary and frequently found in administrative records. The first stage of thinking about the experiences of someone...

My latest blogpost for the Kingswomen introduces Rebecca Edwards: she married star actor William Knell at 14, was widowed at 15, then married Shakespeare’s colleague, John Heminges.

www.kingswomen.org/post/rebecca...

#earlymodern
#womenshistory

Danica Patrick was the first woman to win an IndyCar race, first to lead the Indy 500, and first to take pole position at the Daytona 500.

All in a sport nobody handed her a seat in.

And she clearly loved every second of it.

#difficultwomen #womenshistory #motorsport

Guns and Violence Against Women: America’s Uniquely Lethal Intimate Partner Violence Problem Laws keeping guns out of the hands of abusers are associated with lower rates of violence against women and intimate partner homicides.

Gun regulations are a feminist issue, are an issue of partner violence. An average of 70 women a month are shot and killed by their partner.
#womenshistory

The incredible story of Julia Hancock. A girl who loved two men--one as her husband, the other like a brother--and those men were Lewis & Clark.
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#BlueSkyWriters #Frontier #WomensHistory #WomensFiction #AmericanHistory #AmericanWest #AmericanFiction

Billie Holiday

4/20/1939 — Billie Holiday, American jazz + swing vocalist, records the first civil rights song, “Strange Fruit”. Written about a lynching in the South; 'Time Magazine' called the piece "The Song of the Century” #womenshistory #civilrights #WomenInMusic #MusicSky #MusicChallenge #PolSky #woc #jazz

Mary Phelps Jacob standing with dog

4/20/1891 — b. Mary Phelps Jacob, American inventor, author, poet, publisher,arts patron, philanthropist. She was awarded the first patent for what is now considered the modern bra, she did not invent the first brassiere #womenshistory #WomenInSTEM #InventorSky #SciSky #HistSci #IP #fashion #patents

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

4/20-21/1852 — The Woman’s New York State Temperance Society Convention is held in Rochester, NY. The founding meeting was called by ElizabethCadyStanton; 500+ wmn attended. The society was formed bcz temperance groups did not permit wmn members #womenshistory #womensrights #gov #law #LawSky #PolSky

#67: Chiang Mai, Summer 1970 Temples, a new hotel, and sightseeing

In this week's issue of Travels with K, it's the summer of 1970 and K is sightseeing near her home in Chiang Mai. It was fun to trace the history of a hotel that was just being built and see local crafts and temples through her eyes. #womenshistory #womenstravel #chiangmai #photography #thailand

After each one, she went back to sea.

Because she liked the work. (And I suspect the ocean eventually gave up trying to stop her.)

#difficultwomen #womenshistory #irrepressible
(Last Friday was Nothing Like a Dame day)

🚨 THIS WEEK🚨
Catalina Micaela proves you don’t need a throne to shape history 👑💥
Hear Professor Magdalena Sánchez challenge the idea that only politically powerful women matter.

🎧 Listen now pod.fo/e/401d94

#HistoryRage #WomensHistory #CatalinaMicaela #Habsburg @yalebooks.bsky.social

posed photograph of Maria Skłodowska-Curie in her lab holding a volumetric flask. She is a white woman with dark hair in a bun.

#OnThisDay, 20 Apr 1902, Maria Skłodowska-Curie and Pierre Curie refine radium chlorine. The discovery leads to Marie being the first woman to win the Nobel Prize for Physics in 1903.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #NobelWomen 🗃️
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