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Volume I, Issue 20: It’ Women’s History Month, Hooray!

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This Issue is prepared especially for you!

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In this Issue:

1. Welcome!

2. It’ Women’s History Month, Hooray! (Featured Article)

3. Announcements/Offers

4. About Lovin’ Life Now Weekly Newsletter

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1) Welcome to this issue of our Lovin’ Life Now! weekly newsletter. A special hello to you if you are receiving this for the first time. Feel free to pass this on to anyone you think might be interested in it.

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2) It’s Women’s History Month, Hooray!

By Charlene M Brown

Celebrating Women is not something new. In fact WOMEN have been celebrating ourselves for a very long time. And the study of women has come a long way as far as being written down.

However, women and their role in worldwide society have made great strides, though there is still work to be done in having women’s voices be heard.

The “institutionalized” celebration of women has come about much more recently however, and as I said, there is still work to be done, especially with one woman’s voice being understood by another’s halfway across the world.

In this week’s newsletter I was supposed to give you a short overview timeline of monumental occasions for women, but I got a little carried away!

By no means did I create this timeline and information was taken from the listed sources below, although the comments in [brackets] are mine.

Women Throughout the Years!

· 10,000 to 5,000 BC In several regions, women, who are the traditional gatherers of foodstuffs, initiate the profound cultural phenomenon of agriculture.

· c. 1850 BC Egyptian texts describe contraceptive suppositories, made from a mixture of honey and crocodile dung. This is the first known reference to contraceptives.

· c. 950 An anonymous Norwegian woman writes Wise Women’s Prophesy, a history of the world, including prophecies for the future.

· 1351 England’s Treason Act considers any murder that subverts the usual hierarchies, such as a servant killing his master or a wife killing her husband, to be petty treason.

· 1406 In Korea plans are made for training women doctors to serve female patients who refuse to be treated by male doctors.

· 1692 The Salem witch trials condemn 19 to die; most of the accused and the accusers are women. [isn’t this still the case . . . hmmm]

· 1777 All states pass laws taking away women’s right to vote

· 1793 Hannah Slater receives the first U.S. patent granted to a woman, for a type of cotton thread. Her invention helps her husband build a successful textile business.

· 1817 The South African warrior queen Mmanthatisi becomes the leader of the Tlokwa (a southern Sotho group). She plans military strategy and leads the nation to a new homeland in Lesotho.

· 1839 Mississippi grants women the right to hold property in their own name with their husbands permission

· 1840 Female delegates are refused admittance to the World’s Anti-Slavery Convention in London. This event leads Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady Stanton to call the first women’s rights convention.

· 1848 Seneca Falls (NY) Convention held signing the Declaration of Sentiments, pleading for an end to gender discrimination

· 1851 The new Guatemalan constitution grants full citizenship to financially independent women.

· 1855 In Missouri v. Celia, a Slave, a Black woman is declared to be property without a right to defend herself against a master’s act of rape

1868 In Thailand, Amdang Munan refuses to marry the man her parents picked for her. She prevails upon the king to rule that women may choose their own husbands.

· 1879 Through special Congressional legislation, Belva Lockwood becomes first woman admitted to try a case before the U.S. Supreme Court.

· 1881 Sofya Perovskaya helps to plan the assassination of Tsar Alexander II. She is arrested, tried, found guilty, and executed.

· 1889 Wyoming, a U.S. territory, approves a constitution that is the first in the world to grant full voting rights to women.

· 1896 In Zimbabwe, legends hold that the ancestral spirit Ambuya Nehanda enters the body of a woman, who then starts a revolt against the British.

· 1901 Japan’s Women’s College is founded in Tokyo. Many of the women who graduate help to establish feminism in Japan.

· 1905 Mohtaram Eskandari starts the Union of Patriotic Women, Iran’s first organization for women. Religious leaders break up the first meeting and burn some of the women alive. [1905!]

· 1909, February 28^th (the last Sunday in February) is established as National Women’s Day in the United States.

· 1914 In Russia, Princess Eugenie Shakhovskaya is the first female military pilot. She flies reconnaissance missions.

· 1917 Russian women went on strike in opposition of the 2 million dead Russian soldiers in WWI; four days later, the Czar was forced to abdicate and the Russian Government granted women the right to vote. This strike fell on the last Sunday in February (the 23^rd), in the Julian calendar which was in use in Russia. This date coincided with March 8^th on the Gregorian calendar, which was in use in most other places. March 8^th is now considered International Women’s Day.

· 1920 The Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is ratified granting women the right to vote.

· 1923 Egyptian feminist Huda Shaarawi publicly unveils and inspires many other women to do the same.

· 1933 Portugal’s new constitution specifically denies women’s equal rights.

· 1933 In Italy, Mussolini rewards women who have more than 14 children. [Really! 14!?]

· 1963 The Equal Pay Act is passed by U.S. Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.

· 1964 Title VII of the Civil Rights Act (U.S.) passes including a prohibition against employment discrimination on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex.

· 1966 Indira Gandhi wins leadership of the Congress Party and becomes the first female prime minister of India.

· 1969 In Ecuador a “malaria control” program is used as a cover to sterilize peasant women.

· 1969 Golda Meir becomes the first female prime minister of Israel.

· 1973 Jordanian women are granted the right to vote.

· 1973 Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973) and Doe v. Bolton, 410 U.S. 179 (1973): The U.S. Supreme Court declares that the Constitution protects women’s right to terminate an early pregnancy, thus making abortion legal in the U.S.

· 1974 Cleveland Board of Education v. LaFleur, 414 U.S. 632 (1974), determines it is illegal to force pregnant women to take maternity leave on the assumption they are incapable of working in their physical condition.

· 1977 In Saudi Arabia, Princess Misha’al is accused of adultery and executed.

· 1979 Margaret Thatcher becomes the first female prime minister of Great Britain.

· 1981 Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman justice to sit on the U.S. Supreme Court.

· 1984 The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment (U.S.), granting women the vote. [Ummm, really Mississippi!? This is a little ridiculous!]

· 1988 Benazir Bhutto becomes prime minister of Pakistan. She is the first woman leader of a Muslim country in modern history.

· 1993 The Family and Medical Leave Act goes into effect in the United States.

· 1994 Takahashi Hisako becomes the first woman justice on Japan’s Supreme Court.

· 1996 In Afghanistan the ruling Taliban government places strict restrictions on women, forbidding them from receiving an education and working outside the home.

· 1996 A report on female genital mutilation urges international action to end the ancient rite of passage that has already been performed on roughly 100 million girls worldwide.

· 2000 Sirimavo R.D. Bandaranaike of Sri Lanka, the world’s first female prime minister, retires.

· 2000 CBS Broadcasting agrees to pay $8 million to settle a sex discrimination lawsuit by the E.E.O.C. on behalf of 200 women.

· 2001 Voters in Bahrain approve a referendum that includes the right of women to stand for office.

· 2005 Kuwaiti women are granted the right to vote (effective 2007).

· 2006 Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf is inaugurated as Liberia’s first woman president.

· 2007 Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto is assassinated shortly after her return to Pakistan following eight years of self-imposed exile.

This month especially, I encourage you to take a look at some of these links below—this stuff is FASCINATING!

Celebrate Women!

Do You Love Your Life Now!? I DO!!!

Please note that this timeline represents a somewhat arbitrary collection of dates and events that I think are important or interesting. Information taken from: http://www.legacy98.org/timeline.html, http://www.nwhp.org/, http://www.un.org/ecosocdev/geninfo/women/womday97.htm, http://www.britannica.com/women/timeline?tocId=9404138,

As Always, A BIG Hug To You!

~Charli B.

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