Category Archives: Feminism

vintage everyday: 10 Incredible Essential Products Made by Women During the First World War

Women pit brow workers of the Wigan Coal and Iron Company, 1918. These women sorted coal and moved heavy tubs on the surface of a coal mine – work that was dirty and physically demanding. Jobs like these had been done by working class women before the war and continued to be important in wartime.

via vintage everyday: 10 Incredible Essential Products Made by Women During the First World War.

A woman will appear on redesigned $10 bill in 2020 – The Washington Post

“It’s been our goal from the beginning to see the face of a woman on our paper currency,” Susan Ades Stone, the group’s executive director, said in a phone interview. “So naturally I’m excited to hear that our mission will be accomplished.”

She said she did not mind that Jackson is staying on the $20 bill. Putting a woman on the $10 bill appears to be the quickest solution, she said.

via A woman will appear on redesigned $10 bill in 2020 – The Washington Post.

If we don’t raise a voice against sexism it will never go away | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian

If we don’t raise a voice against sexism it will never go away | Zoe Williams | Comment is free | The Guardian.

 

I have a news-led moral compass and thought I no longer cared, the event in question being over a week ago. It turned out, I did care; the expiration of my objection to misogyny is longer than 11 days. It is a simple fact that using the word “woman” is different to using the word “man”: it is scornful. To use it domestically is simple power play, the establishment of the male as superior by birth; to use it in public life has the additional intimation that the woman doesn’t belong in that sphere, that her presence is only suffered for as long as she knows her place. If Salmond thinks that he’s identified some alternative Scottish usage, he should try to imagine himself using the word as a compliment. You might well call somebody an intelligent woman, but you would never address her “woman” in the expression of that point. It’s subtle, but simultaneously deeply obvious, right the way across the English-speaking world.

Indonesia’s Aceh bans women from nightspots after 11pm – Al Jazeera English

The chief of Indonesia’s national commission on anti-violence against women said the measure would only restrict women’s freedom and threaten their livelihoods.

“The government should stop meddling in women’s affairs,” said Azriana, who like many Indonesians goes by only one name.

“If the intention of the Aceh government is to provide protection for women, it must instead educate the public and men to respect women or provide security at the nightspots.”

via Indonesia’s Aceh bans women from nightspots after 11pm – Al Jazeera English.