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#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in the UK. These made it unlawful to discriminate based on sex or marital status, and made it a requirement to pay men and women equally for equal work.
The laws were passed in 1970 but did not come into effect until 1975, giving employers time to prepare. One of the triggers for the laws had been the 1968 Ford machinists strike.
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#OnThisDay, 14 Dec 1985, Wilma Mankiller was sworn in as Chief of the Cherokee Nation. She went to serve two more terms as Chief.
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#OnThisDay, 4 Dec 1978, Dianne Feinstein was formally sworn in as Mayor of San Francisco.
She had been the acting Mayor after the assassinations of Mayor George Moscone and supervisor Harvey Milk the week before.
She goes on to win two more terms, and to be elected to the US Senate where she served until her death in 2023.
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“I was elected by the women of Ireland, who instead of rocking the cradle, rocked the system.”
#OnThisDay, 3 Dec 1990, Mary Robinson was inaugurated as the first woman to be President of the Republic of Ireland.
"In a society where the rights and potential of women are constrained, no man can be truly free. He may have power, but he will not have freedom."
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#OnThisDay, 29 Nov 1949, Iriaka Rātana is elected to the New Zealand parliament (Pāremata Aotearoa). She was the first Māori woman to become an MP. She held her seat until her retirement in 1969.
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#OnThisDay, 28 Nov 1967, Jocelyn Bell Burnell discovers the existence of pulsars.
Not included in the 1974 Nobel prize for the discovery, Bell received a £3m prize for her work in 2018. She's used it to set up a foundation to improve the diversity in STEM.
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#OnThisDay, 14 Nov 1960, Ruby Bridges goes to school.
She is the first African-American child to attend the all-white William Frantz school in Louisiana, USA. It is a symbolic act, breaking the segregation of education in the state.
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#OnThisDay, 13 Nov 1931, Democrat Hattie Wyatt Caraway is appointed as a US Senator for Arkansas.
The first woman to sit in the Senate for more than a day, she'd been selected by the party on the understanding that she would serve out her late husband's term and not stand for re-election in 1932.
Instead she stood again, and remained a Senator until 1945.
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“I may be the first woman member of Congress but I won’t be the last.”
#OnThisDay, 7 Nov 1916, Jeanette Rankin is elected to the US House of Representatives. She was the first woman elected to the House.
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#OnThisDay, 3 Nov 1914, American Mary Phelps Jacob is granted a US patent for the brassiere.
Here's a brief thread on her life. 👇
Born to descendants of founding families, Jacob had a gilded life until WW1. To manage his PTSD, her first husband turned to alcohol, gambling and following fire engines so he could watch buildings burn.
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#OnThisDay, 12 Oct 1956, Marga Klompé is appointed Minister of Social Work. She is the first woman to be a cabinet Minister in the Netherlands government and is recognised as a key architect of the Dutch welfare state. [photos (c) Spaarnestad Photo ]
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"Even if they come to kill me, I will tell them what they are trying to do is wrong, that education is our basic right."
#OnThisDay, 9 Oct 2012, Malala Yousafzai survives an assassination attempt by the Taliban. She continues to campaign for education for girls and women.
#OnThisDay, 7 Oct 2006, Russian journalist Anna Politkovskava is assassinated in her Moscow apartment block.
She had been doggedly reporting on human rights abuses by Russian forces in Chechnya.
“Our heedless and destructive acts enter the vast cycles of the earth and in time return to bring hazard to ourselves."
#OnThisDay, 27 Sept 1962, Rachel Carson's influential book 'Silent Spring' is published, documenting the environmental impact of pesticides.
Read more here: https://carvehername.org.uk/sixty-years-of-silent-spring/
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