Many thanks to the @internetarchive for your tireless efforts to preserve our history against redaction. Examples:

Information about U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) former Inspector General June Gibbs Brown:
- https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases-articles/employee-feature-june-gibbs-brown-legacy/(missing);
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20250322064243/https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases-articles/employee-feature-june-gibbs-brown-legacy/ (preserved) #WomensHistoryMonth

- https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases-articles/june-gibbs-brown/ (missing);
+ https://web.archive.org/web/20250619112056/https://oig.hhs.gov/newsroom/news-releases-articles/june-gibbs-brown/ (preserved).

A few weeks ago one of editors @LenaOetzel visited Versailles for the first time. Listening to the audioguide she felt the strong need to talk about #earlymodern female diplomatic/political actors and how they are represented in popular culture (or at least in this audioguide...).
True to the motto that every month is #WomensHistoryMonth, here is a thread about the women of Versailles - or at least two of them. (1/7)

#emdiplomacy #emdiplomats #Versailles #earlymodern
#France #EarlyModernEurope
@histodons @historikerinnen @earlymodern

Here's a consolidated thread of all my #WomensHistoryMonth posts March 1-31!

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1895911235834835207.html

On the last day of #WomensHistoryMonth, I'm sharing a poem for all the women we are and were and will be. -M.

i have been a thousand different women
by Emory Hall

make peace
with all the women
you once were.

lay flowers
at their feet.

offer them incense
and honey
and forgiveness.

honor them
and give them
your silence.

listen.

bless them
and let them be.

for they are the bones
of the temple
you sit in now.

for they are
the rivers
of wisdom
leading you toward
the sea.

To end #WomensHistoryMonth 2025, I have written a blog post about why Alice Thornton (1626-1707) wrote (at least) four accounts of her life.
https://www.gender.ed.ac.uk/blog/2025/3-funerals-and-wedding-seventeenth-century-womans-reasons-writing-0
@litstudies @histodons @earlymodern @histodon #EarlyModern #WomenInHistory

Did you get the sense that Women's History Month was a bit of a damp squib this year, with fewer people writing about and discussing the annual observance, which started in 1987? @19thnews discusses why that might have been the case: Trump's anti-DEI moves have killed or maimed some efforts to celebrate women's achievements, from an Ohio conference to Defense Department web pages.

https://flip.it/.HKAIr
#WomensHistoryMonth #WomensHistory #DEI #History @histodons #DiversityEquityInclusion #TrumpAdministration

"There has never been a more important moment to make our actions count" - @tansy

A huge thank you to everyone who came to our event platforming 4 incredible women from our network who fight for garment workers' rights.
While their stories differed, they were united in their conviction that collective action and solidarity is the best route to justice.

Don't worry if you missed it - we recorded it especially! Catch up here: https://vimeo.com/1070387466

Today's book recommendation for Women's History Month is "Breaking the Ice Ceiling: How the Icelandic Women's Day Strike Shattered Patriarchy" by Sarah Johnson, a brief 50-page account of the 1975 "Women's Day Off" strike in Iceland.

I found this book in a "Little Free Library", but was unable to find a link to a current publisher, so it is possible it's now out of print. But this was an event which I'd never heard of before, and which I found so fascinating that I'm going ahead and recommending the book anyway. Maybe you can dig up a used copy as I did.

On October 24, 1975, the women of Iceland went on a daylong strike. An amazing 90% of Icelandic women participated. Those who had paid employment did not go to work. Those who were housewives did no household tasks or child care. The strike brought the country to a standstill.

Schools closed for lack of teachers. Telephone service shut down without telephone operators. Canneries shut down without the women who worked there. Typesetters were mostly women, so newspapers were not printed. Workplaces saw an influx of children, as their fathers brought the kids to work with them for lack of child care.

The aftermath was a national reckoning with the situation of women. The following year, Iceland saw passage of a Gender Equality law, and five years later, Iceland elected the world's first woman president. Today, Iceland has one of the smallest gender wage gaps in the world.

#OnThisDay, 30 Mar 1982, Bertha Wilson was sworn in to the Canadian Supreme Court. She is the first woman appointed to sit on it.

When she had started at law school in 1955, she was reportedly advised to 'take up crocheting' instead.

Her 1988 ruling decriminalised abortion in Canada.

For #WomensHistoryMonth, I recommend this Hopeton Hay podcast episode on, among others, *The Radical Fiction of Ann Petry*. Petry was the first Black woman to sell over a million copies as an author with her *The Street* novel (1946). I've now asked the Libby app to "Notify Me" for the audiobook of that novel, and put a hold on a physical short story collection. https://www.podomatic.com/podcasts/hbhpodcasts/episodes/2025-03-24T04_39_40-07_00

From 2021, when I had the honor of being featured in this #TempleUniversity spotlight for #WomensHistoryMonth. #TempleMade &️

Painting of the Day. New Born II
> > https://www.artcameroon.com/new-born-2-african-women-baby/
Here is an acrylic painting of African women come to welcome a new baby and to show support for the mother. It's full of warmth and love, and it captures the special bond between women, especially mothers, who look out for one another.
Angu Walters
70 x 50 cm
28 x 20 in
$800 original / $135 art print / Free delivery / Inquiries welcome
#AfricanArt #paintingoftheday #newborn #motherhood #WomensHistoryMonth #womeninspiringwomen