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Women in History
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What were common jobs for women in the early 1900s?
A lot of women worked as servants, teachers, factory workers and nurses.
Things had already changed quite a bit and women were increasingly studying at universities to become doctors, journalists, scientists and even architects.
It also varied between different Western Countries. In the USA women did not have as many opportunities as in a country like Sweden (where women had been part of guilds and ran business for centuries).
Nellie McClung died by a sickness called heart disease.
What were Clara Barton's occupations?
She was a school teacher in New Jersey when starting at the age of 15. Then she became a U.S. Patent office clerk. While working there she learned of the need for medical supplies to treat the wounded from the first Bull Run. She decided to set up a drive and collected medical supplies. Soon the Union was letting her ride in the medical carts with the wounded. She helped as a nurse and tried to keep them possitive. Then she became a nurse and obtained the nickname "Angel of the Battlefield". There she founded The Red Cross and was president of the Red Cross before retiring and dying.
How did women in World War 1 change the perception of women?
They were nurses and took over many jobs that men used to do. They also produced a lot in the war industry. After that everyone (both men and women) saw what they were capable off, something that had been denied for a long time.
Were there any women doctor's in the 1920s?
Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.Yes, there were female doctors during the Great Depression. There were female DRs farther back than the Civil War.
The women that wrote the declaration of womens rights?
Olympe De Gouges did in the times of the French Revolution.
It mostly stated that the Declaration of Rights of Men should have included women judging by it's figurative language.
Who was the woman that started the St Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903?
Richmond, Virginia native, Maggie L. Walker, chartered the St. Luke Penny Savings Bank in 1903. Thus, she not only became the first African-American female bank president in US history, but the first American female bank president as well.
Was jane pittman the first black lady to drink from white water fountain?
Jane Pittman was a real person. And yes she was the first black lady to drink from the whites water fountain.
Women in the trade of the middle ages?
There were a number of countries that allowed female monarchs, and of these many had queens regnant. Some that technically allowed female monarchs never had one in the Middle Ages, Scotland being an example. In Denmark, where it was technically illegal for a woman to rule, Margaret I ruled anyway, for over twenty years and with great success. There is an article in Wikipedia listing queens regnant, and a link is provided below.
The following countries had female monarchs: Greece (The Byzantine Empire)
Bosnia
Poland
Hungary
England
Denmark
Italy (Naples and Sicily)
Spain (Navarre, Leon, Castile, and Aragon)
Portugal
The ranks of women in the nobility, from highest to lowest (and excluding a few that came after the Middle Ages), included: Empress
Queen
Duchess
Marchioness
Countess
Baroness
Dame
I was able to find several different orders of knights that had women in them with the rank of knight. One was made up exclusively of women who had fought with distinction in one battle, and this was the Order of the Hatchet. The other was the Order of the Blessed Virgin Mary, whose papal charter explicitly allowed women to be knights in the order. The Order of the Garter had women in it with rank equivalent to knight, but this practice stopped with the end of the Middle Ages.
Women often ran businesses or crafts shops. Some guilds, but nowhere near all, allowed women to be members. Some guilds, in fact, excluded men, and the silk guilds of some cities were among these. Women began to lose their ability to be guild members about the time the Renaissance began.
Many women were peasants, and they worked on the farms with their families.
There are links below.
Who was the first female to go to the moon?
No women have travelled to the Moon, only men.
The only manned missions to the Moon have been the Apollo missions sent by the US between 1968 and 1972. During the NASA program, six landings were made and a total of 12 astronauts (all male) explored the surface and returned to Earth. No humans have travelled to the Moon since 1972.
no girls on the moon just a mans world at that time
How many men were appointed to the Supreme Court before Sandra Day O'Connor was appointed?
Former Arizona Governor Jack Richard Williams appointed Sandra Day O'Connor to a seat on the Arizona State Senate in 1969. She was subsequently reelected, and served on the Senate until 1975, the last two years as Senate Majority Leader and Senate Republican Leader.
Former Arizona Governor Bruce Babbit appointed O'Connor to the Arizona Court of Appeals in 1979, where she served until President Reagan appointed her to the US Supreme Court in 1981.
Who are some of the famous women of the Holocaust?
On top of that, Anne Frank was one of the most well-known victim of the Holocaust as she and her family went into hiding when the Nazi Party gained power. They were eventually betrayed and transported to concentration camps where she and her sister, Margot both died from typhus. Anne Frank's Diary is one of the world's most widely read books.
Why is Sandra Day O'connor so important?
Sandra Day O'Connor was important because she was the first woman ever appointed to the Supreme Court; President Reagan named her to that position in 1981. She was already well-respected as a lawyer, an Assistant Attorney General in her native Arizona, a state senator, and then a judge. Justice O'Connor saw herself as a centrist: she was a conservative Republican, but she was known for being fair and moderate in her decisions. She served until 2006.
Why are mostly older women accused of witchcraft hysteria?
It is mainly because witches tended to be wise women and healers which required the women to be older.
What school did Emmeline Pankhurst go to?
École Normale Supérieure. You should go on wikipedia to learn more about her experience there and more about the school, as it is still a school kids in modern time attend :)
What could women do in ancient Egypt?
Ancient Egyptian women could buy and sell property and items when they wanted to do so.
Women had many legal rights like being able to sue another individual or being able to adopt a child.
Women in ancient Egypt could get a divorce and any property brought into the marriage by the women would remain her property.
Some wealthier women could read and write.
Women could act freely in public and could hold a job.
Upper and middle class women took care of the house and family.
Rich women had servants and slaves who took care of everything for them.
Women in ancient Egypt had good hygiene and wore makeup and jewelry.
Girls as young as 12 could wear makeup.
Women could serve as priests.
Women could be perfume makers, weavers, or entertainers, but being a wife and mother came first.
Women could testify in court.
Evidence shows that at least one woman, if not more, was a doctor in ancient Egypt.
If an Egyptian woman committed a crime, she would suffer the same consequence as a man who had committed the same crime.
First woman ambassador of India?
In 1923, Alexandra Mikhailovna Kollontai was appointed Soviet Ambassador to Norway, becoming the world's first female ambassador. Later she served as Ambassador to Mexico (1926) and Sweden. She was also a member of the Soviet delegation to the League of Nations.
Was Amelia Earhart the first woman to fly?
No, though certainly the best-known aviatrix. The first licensed woman pilot in the United States was Harriet Quimby, who was also a journalist and part-time actress, at the time of her death she was the dramatic editor of a prominent weekly magazine. Harriet"s life dates were l875-l9l2. She was belatedly honored on a U.S. Airmail stamp some years ago. An attractive woman, she looked and may have been partly Italian. She did visit Italy for a magazine thing (Prior to her involvement with aviation). To tell the truth she looked more than a little like Gina in a purple Flight suit.
Who was the first woman named to a presidential cabinet as Secretary of Labor?
It was Frances Perkins (April 10, 1880 - May 14, 1965), born Fannie Coralie Perkins, was the U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, and the first woman appointed to the U.S. Cabinet.
Who was the first women prime minister?
It was Sirimavo Bandaranaike. She was the prime minister of Sri Lanka three times beginning in 1960. She became prime minister after the assassination of her husband, Solomon Bandaranaike.
She was followed by:
Indira Gandhi,
Prime minister of India from 19 Jan 1966 to 24 Mar 1977, and from 14 Jan 1980 to 31 Oct 1984
Golda Meir, Prime minister of Israel from 17 Mar 1969 to 3 Jun 1974.
Elisabeth Domitien,
Prime minister of the Central African Republic from 3 Jan 1975 to 7 Apr 1976
Margaret Thatcher,
Prime minister of the United Kingdom from 4 May 1979 to 28 Nov 1990
Maria de Lourdes Pintasilgo,
Prime minister of Portugal from 1 Aug 1979 to 3 Jan 1980
Mary Eugenia Charles,
Prime minister of Dominica from 21 Jul 1980 to 14 Jun 1995
Gro Harlem Brundtland,
Prime minister of Norway from 4 Feb to 14 Oct 1981, from 9 May 1986 to 16 Oct 1989,
and from 3 Nov 1990 to 25 Oct 1996
Milka Planinc,
Federal prime minister of the former Socialist Yugoslavia from 16 May 1982 to 15 May 1986
Benazir Bhutto,
Prime Minister of Pakistan from 2 Dec 1988 to 6 Aug 1990, and again from 19 Oct 1993 to 5 Nov 1996
Kazimiera Prunskiene,
Prime minister of Lithuania from 17 Mar 1990 to 10 Jan 1991
Khaleda Zia,
Prime minister of Bangladesh from 20 Mar 1991 to 30 Mar 1996, and from 10 Oct 2001 to 29 Oct 2006
Edith Cresson, Prime minister of France from 15 May 1991 to 2 Apr 1992
Hanna Suchocka, Prime minister of Poland from 8 Jul 1992 to 26 Oct 1993
Kim Campbell, Prime minister of Canada from 25 Jun to 5 Nov 1993
Tansu Çiller, Prime minister of Turkey from 25 Jun 1993 to 7 Mar 1996
Sylvie Kinigi, Prime minister of Burundi from 10 Jul 1993 to 11 Feb 1994
Agathe Uwilingiyimana,
Prime minister of Rwanda from 18 Jul 1993 to her killing on 7 Apr 1994
Chandrika Kumaratunga, Prime minister of Sri Lanka from 19 Aug to Nov 1994
Reneta Indzhova, Interim prime minister of Bulgaria from 16 Oct 1994 to 25 Jan 1995
Claudette Werleigh, Prime minister of Haiti from 7 Nov 1995 to 27 Feb 1996
Sheikh Hasina Wajed,
Prime minister of Bangladesh from 23 Jun 1996 to 15 Jul 2001, and since 6 Jan 2009
Janet Jagan, Prime minister of Guyana from 17 Mar 1997 to December 19, 1997
Jenny Shipley, Prime minister of New Zealand from 8 Dec 1997 to 10 Dec 1999
Irena Degutiene,
Acting prime minister of Lithuania from 4 to 18 May 1999, and from 27 Oct to 3 Nov 1999
Nyam-Osoriyn Tuyaa, Acting prime minister of Mongolia from 22 to 30 Jul 1999
Helen Elizabeth Clark, Prime minister of New Zealand from 10 Dec 1999 to 19 Nov 2008
Mame Madior Boye, Prime minister of Senegal from 3 Mar 2001 to 4 Nov 2002
Chang Sang,
Acting Prime minister of South Korea in 2002, from 11 Jul by appointment of president Kim Dae Jung,
to 31 Jul when the Parliament rejected her
Maria das Neves Ceita Baptista de Sousa,
Prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 7 Oct 2002 to 16 Jul 2003
Anneli Tuulikki Jäätteenmäki,
Prime minister of Finland from 17 Apr to 24 Jun 2003
Beatriz Merino Lucero, Prime minister of Peru from 28 Jun to 15 Dec 2003
Luísa Dias Diogo, Prime minister of Mozambique from 17 Feb 2004 to 18 Jan 2010
Radmila Sekerinska,
Acting prime minister of Macedonia twice in 2004, from 12 May to 12 Jun,
and from 18 Nov to 17 Dec
Yuliya Tymoshenko,
Prime minister of Ukraine from 24 Jan to 8 Sep 2005, and from 18 Dec 2007 to 3 Mar 2010
Maria do Carmo Silveira,
Prime minister of São Tomé and Príncipe from 8 Jun 2005 to 21 Apr 2006
Angela Merkel, Federal Chancellor of Germany from 22 Nov 2005
Portia Simpson-Miller, Prime Minister of Jamaica from 30 Mar 2006 to 11 Sep 2007
Han Myung Sook, Prime minister of South Korea from 19 Apr 2006 to 7 Mar 2007
Zinaida Greceanii, Prime minister of Moldova from 31 Mar 2008 to 14 Sep 2009
Michèle Pierre-Louis, Prime minister of Haiti from 5 Sep 2008 to 11 Nov 2009
Jóhanna Sigurdardóttir, Prime minister of Iceland since 1 Feb 2009
Jadranka Kosor, Prime minister of Croatia since 6 Jul 2009
Cécile Manorohanta, Prime minister of Madagascar from 18 to 20 Dec 2009
Roza Otunbayeva,
Head of the interim Government of Kyrgyzstan from 7 Apr to 19 May 2010,
then interim president of the Republic
Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime minister of Trinidad and Tobago since 26 May 2010
Mari Kiviniemi, Prime minister of Finland from 22 Jun 2010 to 22 Jun 2011
Julia Gillard, Prime minister of Australia since 24 Jun 2010
Iveta Radicová, Prime minister of Slovakia since 8 Jul 2010
Rosario Fernández Figueroa, Prime minister of Peru from 19 Mar 2011 to 28 Jul 2011
Cissé Mariam Kaïdama Sidibé, Prime minister of Mali from 3 Apr 2011
Yingluck Shinawatra, Prime minister of Thailand from 8 Aug 2011.
What were Marie Antoinette's accomplishments?
* The redecoration of her apartments in the various royal palaces. * Her enlightened patronage of some of the greatest artisans and cabinetmakers who ever lived. * She made Paris thé number one capital of haute couture as it still is today. * She introduced the Croissant to France, which is still considered a sublime symbol of France. * She encouraged women's rights and was very outspoken in them.
No. She died on March 6, 2016 at the age of 94. She was born on July 6, 1921.
What was the life expectancy in medieval times for women?
35-40 for peasants and serfs. 50+ for the upper classes , if of good constitution. Early demise was very common, and infant mortality was scandalously high.
[Actually, most numbers exclude infant mortality, due to its outsized affect on the overall average. That is, if you excluded those who died before their 1st birthday, the above numbers are good. If you include infant mortality, drop those by 5-10 years]
The average life span was 35 or 40. Some lived longer, and many died much younger.
