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Nettie Stevens: The Woman that Discovered Sex Chromosomes (medium.com)

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Women’s History Month Spotlight: Edith Clarke, the First Female Electrical Engineer (www.allaboutcircuits.com)

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Rockford pilot Libby Gardner goes viral just in time for Women’s History Month (www.wifr.com)

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Waking up to New York: secrets of the world's most famous women-only hotel (www.theguardian.com)

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How Job-Killing Technologies Liberated Women (www.bloomberg.com)

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Liverpool: City's iconic first woman MP who still has a major impact today (www.liverpoolecho.co.uk)

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The Abundant Roots of Women Surfing: Hawaiian Medicine Women, Goddesses, & Polynesian Royalty (www.surfline.com)

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The North Londoner who was the first solo woman to compete in a TT race despite being told by men ‘she was the wrong weight’ (www.mylondon.news)

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Ma Copley: How a woman came to be Belfast's biggest boxing promoter (www.bbc.co.uk)

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Weatherwatch: the unsung woman behind modern forecasting (www.theguardian.com)

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Shaista Ikramullah - one of the only two women to have signed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (sister-hood.com)

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Edith Cowan, Australia's first woman MP, barely recognised 100 years after making history (www.abc.net.au)

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Veiled in history: how women have been covered up (www.swissinfo.ch)

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Meet Effa Manley, the First and Only Woman Inducted Into the National Baseball Hall of Fame (wdet.org)

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Deaf women fought for the right to vote (theconversation.com)

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Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, Whose Art Museum Promoted Women, Dies at 98 (www.nytimes.com)

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The Getty Museum: What Was Life like for Women in the Middle Ages?

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Compare the Speeches — The Sojourner Truth Project (www.thesojournertruthproject.com)

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The pioneers of women's football who were banned 100 years ago (www.itv.com)

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The Getty Museum: They Persisted (in Making Art) Three Stories That Show How Women Have Created Throughout History

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Oxford University's Philosopher of the month is the "first English feminist", philosopher and writer, Mary Astell; Free readings for download available. (global.oup.com)

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Women were successful big-game hunters, challenging beliefs about ancient gender roles (theconversation.com)

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How World War I Helped Women Ditch the Corset (www.history.com)

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Beatrice Finkelstein, the Woman Who Fed the Astronauts (www.scientificamerican.com)

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Bronze age burial site in Spain suggests women were among rulers (www.theguardian.com)

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