What happens when they try to name a street after a woman.

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From a current local paper, sadly, and not from 1919:- (sorry, italics fail)

"A number of people took to social media to express their anger that women should share the honour of having a street named after them with men, tree species and compass directions.

Paul Clarke Tweeted 'what are we coming to?'

Denise Venn asked 'Women in street names? How ridiculous can you get?'

Anthony M Peacock attempted to explain why women should not support such a scheme, saying 'Supposed gender imbalances are always unimportant, trivial matters that just go to prove feminists perpetually seek victimhood'." End of quotes.

The street is to be named after Lillian Armitage of Bradford, a suffragette. The newspaper at least made their own views on this clear.

Still a long, long way to go.

What??

Bradford City Hall is on Channing Way

Carol?

I've searched Twitter and the comments on this all seem quite positive?

I have no idea Mockers! I might go through all the street names in the area and 'assign' them to a woman.

Oh dear. It's the horror of having a woman on a bank note thing all over again isn't it.

Calamity you mean they support the naming after Lillian Armitage? Not on Twitter, will try to sneak in later. Then I wonder why the paper chose to report the bonkers comments from c.1822?

Yeah, i just searched "armitage" "bradford" and it seemed OK. I may be missing something though!

I found the article. It's not very well written, and I can't find the tweets they are talking about (they could be out there; it's just me who can't find them). If the tweets are genuine and not sarcastic, then we shouldn't give them attention. There will always be pricks saying stuff like that.

Above is the link to the article.

Its bonkers. The council are doing a good thing: addressing the imbalance of naming streets after historical men and therefore making an effort to name streets after historical women.

This, to me, is a great thing to do.

These ideas always bring out certain idiot people of social media.

The same thing happened with putting Jane Austen on the bank note.

Judi Dench Walk is in York

Those comments sound like they're taking the piss out of people who object to things like women on banknotes.

Is it the Daily Mash?

Weird. We have lots of female street names here. Though TBH I am not keen on schemes to inflate these types of representation.

www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/17720100.councillors-vote-to-name-manningham-street-after-bradford-suffragette/

www.citylab.com/equity/2015/11/mapping-the-sexism-of-city-street-names/414094/

(Hopefully my link will work this time)

This was a great article written some years ago about the gender imbalance of streets named after people.

I'm not suggesting that we go around renaming all the streets to make sure its 50/50.

But when it comes to naming a new street after a person, it seems, it's more likely to consider historical men and much rarer to consider historical women.

I'm surprised it's as high as it is, although I notice they used software to determine if the names were male or female so maybe it's overestimating.

There were fewer women in public life in the past, so it makes sense that there were fewer streets named after women. Though there are a fair number of schools and hospitals and such named after queens or princesses or female saints. For some reason street names seem to be people like local officials. With more women in politics we might see a lot more streets named after them.
There is a subdivision near me with many female street names, the developer named them after his relatives. I think they changed the rules for those kinds of subdivision names after that.