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Tell us about your foremothers

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Madhumala Chattopadhyay, the woman who made the Sentinelese put their arrows down (theprint.in)

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Ancient History The Women's Court from the Ancient Temple in Israel!

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Art and Music Taylor Swift named Time's 'Person of the Year,' capping her record-breaking 2023 (www.reuters.com)

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Science and Invention Mary Cleave, pioneering NASA astronaut, dies at 76 (www.today.com)

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First Black Mermaid: ‘I was always the only black person on the boat’

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Florence Petty, born on this day in 1870, was a social reformer, pioneer in culinary and domestic education and indirectly inspired the government campaigns for cost-efficient cooking in wartime. (en.wikipedia.org)

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Badass Photos: War correspondent Dickey Chapelle, a Shorewood native (www.jsonline.com)

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Work and Economics Women's remarkable Civil War roles revealed in Huntingdon display

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Science and Invention The forgotten female crystallographer who discovered C–H⋯O bonds | Feature | Chemistry World (www.chemistryworld.com)

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Badass Dale Spender Obituary: One of feminism’s most successful agent provocateurs (www.theguardian.com)

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Literature and Writing Vale Dr Dale Spender AM: Brisbane’s brilliantly controversial writer, teacher, feminist [Obituary] (archive.md)

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Badass Elinor Otto, longest-serving ‘Rosie the Riveter’ who built airplanes until she was 95 – obituary (web.archive.org)

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Why “Paradise Island”? A page from the first Wonder Woman comic (uploads.ovarit.com)

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Question about the recent history of the middle east

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Redundant Women

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Art and Music Female trailblazers of block-printed design – in pictures | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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The powerful women of an ancient empire (www.bbc.com)

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Literature and Writing How Balzac created the myth of the spinster (theconversation.com)

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Art and Music Sarah Biffin: the celebrated nineteenth-century artist born without arms or legs | Art UK (artuk.org)

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Activism and Politics María Dolores “Tati” Fernós, leader of the feminist movement in Puerto Rico. (www.prwf.org)

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Art and Music Hidden women: Madrid show puts forgotten artists in the picture | Art | The Guardian (www.theguardian.com)

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Art and Music Taylor Swift’s ‘1989 (Taylor’s Version)’ Debuts at No. 1 on Billboard 200 With Biggest Week in Nearly a Decade (www.billboard.com)

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Art and Music 1938 Disney Letter Denies Woman Job Due to Gender...

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Science and Invention In her short life, mathematician Emmy Noether changed the face of physics (www.sciencenews.org)

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Activism and Politics Six Unsung Heroines of the Civil Rights Movement (www.history.com)

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