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Really Awesome Women Repository

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Nightwitch · 31/03/2019 00:51

This is a thread to act as an index to keep all the threads about amazing and inspirational women and women's movements together for future reference.

If you know of a woman whose achievements or story you'd like to share, start a thread, maybe add a link, then pop the thread title in here.

I've gathered a few to start off.

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Nightwitch · 31/03/2019 00:54

www.hedylamarr.com/
Hedi Lamarr. Escaped violent husband, ran off to USA via England, made movies, designed wartime technology still in use today.

Courtesy of Spokk.

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Nightwitch · 31/03/2019 02:00

www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-42253251

The Headscarf revolutionaries.

'Big Lil' and her headscarf army led a women's march to demand safety measures on trawlers after three sank in quick succession.
saved thousands of lives

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Nightwitch · 31/03/2019 02:12

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1975_Icelandic_women%27s_strike]]

In 1975, Icelandic women went on strike for a day to demonstrate women's indispensable work for society and the economy and to protest wage discrepancy

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Nightwitch · 31/03/2019 02:19

en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night Witches]]

Well I had to! and not just because I like Sabaton!

2nd world war Russian female bomber regiment that went up against messerschmitts in bi-planes

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DancelikeEmmaGoldman · 31/03/2019 05:06

This is for the next time some bloke trots out the manly men at war quote.

Russian snipers
mashable.com/2016/07/30/soviet-women-snipers/#L.dOXUiiLaqi

English women of the ATS
www.newstatesman.com/culture/games/2018/05/yes-battlefield-v-gamers-there-were-female-soldiers-world-war-ii

Spies
Eileen Nearne
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eileen_Nearne

Nancy Wake
www.awm.gov.au/collection/P332

More spies
explorethearchive.com/6-incredible-female-spies-of-world-war-ii

www.thoughtco.com/female-spies-of-the-world-wars-3530435

Women of the French resistance

“Women in the French Resistance played an important role in the context of the resistance to occupying German forces during World War II. Women represented 15 to 20% of the total number of French Resistance fighters within the country. Women also represented 15% of political deportations to Nazi-run concentration camps.”
en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women_in_the_French_Resistance

100,000 female Yugoslav resistance fighters.
“The contribution of partizanke, or female partisan fighters, to the Yugoslav liberation war was unprecedented in occupied Europe: official statistics of the socialist period report 100,000 women fighting as partisans, and two million participating in various ways to the support of the National Liberation Movement. Approximately 25,000 women died in battle, 40,000 were wounded, and 2,000 of them acquired the officer’s rank, while 92 women were designated as national heroes.”
dangerouswomenproject.org/2016/04/01/partizanke-dangerous-legacy/

Greek women of the resistance
culturacolectiva.com/history/women-greek-resistance-in-ww2

Women pilots
www.npr.org/2010/03/09/123773525/female-wwii-pilots-the-original-fly-girls

www.thehistorypress.co.uk/articles/doing-their-bit-the-female-fighter-pilots-of-world-war-ii/

The Night Witches (thanks to OP above)
www.history.com/news/meet-the-night-witches-the-daring-female-pilots-who-bombed-nazis-by-night

And that’s just a few of them.

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justicewomen · 31/03/2019 05:43

Elizabeth Wolstenholme Elmy- In 1895, under the pseudonym Ellis Ethelmer, Elmy published Baby Buds, a 47-page botany primer for children that doubled as a sex-education handbook.
www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/10/the-early-feminist-who-used-botany-to-teach-kids-about-sex/503030/

Mary Wollstonecraft
www.bustle.com/articles/158107-5-woman-writers-who-shaped-the-feminist-movement-that-youre-probably-not-familiar-with

justicewomen · 31/03/2019 05:53

Barbara Cartland en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barbara_Cartland Not just romance writer but aviator and supporter of rights of English Gypsies

Lady Lucy Houston www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3703219/How-Suffragette-s-donation-led-creation-Spitfire.html

(You can see I am putting my insomnia to good use!)

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