Proud of 9yr old DD today

[RhinestoneCowgirl]

Their topic this term is 'Explorers' and the class are preparing a presentation for assembly. DD pointed out that all the explorers they were learning about were male, and asked if she could talk about a female explorer and suggested Sacagawea. We've just been looking up facts for her to use.

I know it's a small thing, but she is really fired up about it

Proud everyday
Bit shocking that the school didnt spot this themselves

Good for her! And you for raising her

It's not a small thing at all to speak up in school like that, and point out where the teachers have got it wrong! Well done to your DD . Sacagawea is a great pick!

That is awesome. Your DD rocks! I would be so chuffed if mine did that.

I knew you lot would know it was important!

We learnt about Sacagawea thanks to 'Night at the Museum', that well-known feminist film

Well done your 9 year old DD. And not a small thing - a huge, epic thing, and hopefully standing her in good stead for a whole lifetime of huge, epic things .

good for her!

Your DD has inspired me to google, I liked the explorer who put her Votes for Women flag at the top of a mountain : www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/galleries/amelia-earhart-and-other-great-female-adventurers/bessie-coleman/

Also today’s explorers:
www.theguardian.com/travel/2016/mar/30/top-10-inspiring-contemporary-uk-female-adventurers

Your daughter is the shero of today.

Yes, our googling of female explorers turned up some good stuff!

Including Nellie Bly (a pen name) a journalist who went round the world in less than 80 days, and also went undercover in an asylum for 10 days to highlight the treatment of the mentally ill.

Fantastic. Well done your DD

My girl is so strong, so proud of her sex, has so much belief that she can do anything,so aware of so many female accomplishments from the amazing books that are out there - this generation gives me great, great hope for the future.

My favourite sky explorer.

www.childrensmuseum.org/blog/10-facts-about-amelia-earhart

Well done, what a no wonder mum is proud, you should be very proud of yourself too.

Yay I hope my daughter will be like that

Good for your DD. There's also Helen Sharman - the first British person in space!

Well done to your DD @RhinestoneCowgirl. It's no small thing.

My 9yo DD and I recently discovered Nellie too. So interesting but also surprising (sort of) that she isn't more well known.

The Blessings of a Good Thick Skirt. : D

Your DD is an inspiration.

A shout out for the Phoenix comic too - stealthily introducing children to amazing women (that's where we came across Nellie)

Ahh yes you should be! Brilliant

Hurrah for RhinestoneCowgirl The Younger. Well done her, what a great thing to notice and then speak up about! You must be doing lots of things right

My 9 year old had the topic of the Stone Age - they could choose any aspect to research her independent choice was women in the Stone Age. Apparently most of the cave paintings are thought to be done by women and there were few gendered roles as all hands on deck and everyone had to get on with everything.

That is brilliant, good on your dd!

We recently enjoyed reading about Lady Mary Wortley Montagu, a 17th century wife of an ambassador to Turkey. Not strictly an explorer, but unlike many Europeans she got involved in the everyday people's life in the ottoman empire, wrote many letters home and "In particular, Montagu staked a claim to the authority of women's writing, due to their ability to access private homes and female-only spaces where men were not permitted."

She also advocated the ottoman smallpox inoculation idea in Europe (to much resistance) and had her own young children treated - the first ever treatment in Britain.

I try to plan for female inclusion in our history studies, my dd has this book on her reading list this year www.amazon.com/Women-Numbers-Mathematicians-Discovery-Activities/dp/093317487X?tag=mumsnetforum-21

www.google.co.uk/search?q=hidden+figures&oq=hidden+figures+&aqs=chrome..69i57.9187j0j7&client=ms-android-motorola&sourceid=chrome-mobile&ie=UTF-8 More women who were missing from history

Nellie Bly is an AMAZING historical figure... Social reformer, adventurer, mother of undercover investigative journalism. So brave, so skilled, so woefully underappreciated.

Her name is well known in the US, but mainly for her 'round the world in 80 days' trip... In itself an amazing feat, but it pales beside her pioneering work in investigative journalism... reporting on the lives and working conditions of women factory workers, exposing corruption in Mexico, getting herself committed to a notorious asylum to exposing the abuse of inmates there... What a hero.