C
#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.
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.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #EgyptianHistory #Histodons
She stuck to her cover story and was released a few months after her arrest. She then successfully convinced the orphanage to return her baby to her, and went into hiding until liberation.
She was awarded the Croix de Guerre by France.
2/2
#OnThisDay, 18 Feb 1944, Special Operations Executive courier Mary Herbert was arrested by the Gestapo in Poitiers. The British SOE supported the French resistance.
The Irish-born Herbert had been operating as a courier - moving messages and equipment around - for over a year. She'd also had a baby whilst in France.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WW2 #Histodons
1/2
#OnThisDay, 17 February 2014, Somayya Anwar Jabarti has her name on the masthead of the daily Saudi Gazette, an English language newspaper, for the first time. She was the first woman to be editor-in-chief of a national newspaper in Saudi Arabia.
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 2014, women ski jump for the first time at the winter Olympics. Germany's Carina Vogt (pictured) wins gold.
Previous objections to the event included a man saying, in 2005, that it was “not appropriate for ladies from a medical point of view”. *2005*.
#OnThisDay, 11 Feb 1989, the Rev Barbara Harris is consecrated, the first woman to become a Bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion. Due to death threats, she was advised to wear a bulletproof vest at the ceremony: she declined.
"I certainly don't want to be one of the boys. I want to offer my peculiar gifts as a black woman... a sensitivity and an awareness that comes out of more than a passing acquaintance with oppression."
#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.
Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.
Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.
#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons
