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Posed portrait photo of Frances Perkins. She's a white woman in a hat and has a very very large bow on her coat lapel.

She said, taking the post:
“The door might not be opened to a woman again for a long, long time, and I had a kind of duty to other women to walk in and sit down on the chair that was offered, and so establish the right of others long hence and far distant in geography to sit in the high seats.”

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Photo of Frances Perkins being sworn in, with a strong beam of light highlighting her. The rest of the people in the room are men.

#OnThisDay, 4 Mar 1933, Frances Perkins is sworn in as Secretary of Labor: the first woman to hold a cabinet post in the USA.

She was a workers-rights activist, a key builder of the New Deal, and was in FDR's cabinet throughout his Presidency.

#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory 🗃️

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The British SOE supported the French resistance in sabotaging Nazi operations.

Both women were arrested by the summer of '44. Denise was killed in Ravensbrück concentration camp. Eileen escaped but never recovered her health.
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Bloch and Eileen Nearne. Both are white women with dark hair. Denise is on the left, with the dates 1916-1945 beneath her photo. Eileen is on the right, with the dates 1920-2010 beneath her.

Very early #OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1944, Denise Bloch and Eileen Nearne arrived, separately, into occupied France as wireless operators for the British Special Operations Executive.

#WomenInHistory #History #WorldWar2 #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth 🗃️

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Belva Lockwood later in life. She is a white woman with white hair.

#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1879, Belva Lockwood is sworn in at the US Supreme Court Bar, becoming the first woman admitted to it.

#WomenInHistory #History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth 🗃️

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Then Wells stepped into the march from the side, joining the Illinois delegation. White suffragists Belle Squire and Virginia Brooks took positions on each side of her.

They weren't the only ones to ignore the segregation order. Howard Uni marched with the rest of the Education section.

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The day before Ida B Wells and other Black suffragists were told they had to march at the back, segregated from their delegations. Wells said that she would march with Illinois or not at all.

As the march set off behind Milholland on her horse, Wells was nowhere to be seen.

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A white woman on a white horse, wearing a white robe. The horse's reins are being held by a man, and a crowd stands behind them.

Short thread!

#OnThisDay, 3 Mar 1913, thousands of women marched through Washington DC in the Suffrage Parade. They are led by Inez Milholland, a lawyer on a white horse, with delegations from each state following.

#History #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #VotesForWomen 🗃️

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A peacock butterfly basking in the sun with its chonky furry body.

Well, yeah. That's what 90% of our posts highlight.

studio photo of Bette Davis wearing a white shirt, short dark tie and jacket. She is a white woman with light hair.

#OnTheDay, 2 Mar 1977, Bette Davis receives the American Film Institute's lifetime achievement award. She is the first woman to win it.

Of the 51 recipients to date, 11 have been women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #WHM #WomensHistoryMonth #WomenInHollywood 🗃️

If we disagree and I’m blocking you, most of the time it’s not because we disagreed but rather because you conducted yourself like an asshole

photo of Julia Gillard in 2012. She is a white woman with red hair.

#OnThisDay, 27 Feb 2012, Julia Gillard sees off a leadership challenge to remain Prime Minister of Australia.

#OnThisDay, 26 Feb 1987, the Church of England's General Synod vote to clear the way for the ordination of women priests. The first women are ordained in March 1994.

‘A woman actually voted!’: Lily Maxwell and the Manchester by-election of November 1867 - The History of Parliament More than half a century before the partial enfranchisement of women in 1918, Lily Maxwell, a Manchester shopkeeper, cast a parliamentary vote. Dr Kathryn Rix

With the Gorton and Denton by-election taking place tomorrow, we're sharing our article on an earlier Manchester by-election. How was a woman able to vote there in 1867, decades before women received the parliamentary franchise? Find out more here: historyofparliament.com/2025/03/14/l...

Aquino had won an election earlier that month but dictator Marcos - who had held power since 1965 - refused to step down.

The People Power Revolution demanded the restoration of democracy, and the military supported Aquino in removing him.

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Corazon Aquino, dressed in yellow which was the colour of the revolution, being sworn in as President. She is a Filipino woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 25 Feb 1986, Corazon Aquino is sworn in as President of the Philippines. She is the first women to become President of the country, and to lead a country in southeast Asia.


#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory

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Hewish received the Nobel prize for it in 1974: Bell Burnell did not.

In 2018 Bell Burnell received a £3m prize for her work. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.

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Photo of Jocelyn Bell Burnell in front of a radio telescope dish in the 1960s. She is a white woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 24 Feb 1968, Jocelyn Bell Burnell - along with her male supervisor and three other men - published a paper confirming the discovery of pulsars. She had built the array, picked up the signal and argued it was not an anomaly.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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If you are thinking of doing something for #IWD2026, please use the UN's theme of rights justice and action for all women and girls.

The top return on search engines is a commercial site that's hijacked the day for non-political fluff. The UN day focusses on rights.

www.unwomen.org/en/n...

staged press photo of Constance Baker Motley entering her office as President of the Borough of Manhattan. She is a Black woman.

#OnThisDay, 23 Feb 1965, Constance Baker Motley is elected Manhattan Borough President, the first woman to hold the office. She had been a state senator, and would go on to be a federal judge.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #BlackHistory 🗃️

Please don’t colourise photos: it’s an illusion that pollutes the historical record.

Hettie Bussell in B&W headshot photo

Hettie Bussell UK's 1st woman railway engineer. 1934 tracer with Great Western Railway #Cardiff, #WWII draughtsman joined civil engineering dept, career in #BritishRail. Spoke @ 2nd & 3rd #ICWES conferences. @wes1919.bsky.social President 1976-7. b. #OTD 19 Feb 1917 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henriet...

You should maybe read the rest of the thread?

As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.
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studio photo of Doria Shafik. She is an Egyptian woman with dark hair.

#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory 🗃️
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