Through CAMFED trainings, I'm now a successful agripreneur, turning over TZS 300,000 (USD $115) per year producing sunflower, maize & peanuts!🌻🌽🥜 I'm using my profits to improve my life, support my family, & educate my younger brother.🪙🙌🏿—Rukia, 🇹🇿

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Phyllis Fox, US mathematician, electrical engineer, computer scientist. 1954 Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) maths PhD. 1954-8 Computing Center of US Atomic Energy Commission. 1958 in team writing DYNAMO programming lang. LISP interpreter, p author of 1st manual. d #OTD 23 May 2017 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phyllis_F…

How 3D Girls founder Raioni Madison is empowering young #WomenInTech

'Raioni credits the mentors in her life who at a young age inspired her to create an organization that is educating and empowering young women and girls with resources.'

#WomenInSTEM

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#Kosovo : #ArdianaThaçiMehmeti doxxed after reporting on Albkings Telegram group, notorious for sharing non-consensual images of women & girls. Journalist faced barrage of harassing calls as a result. #WPF condemns & urges police to investigate.

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Today in HERstory 1799 – Mary Anning was born. She was a fossil collector and self-taught paleontologist, who made a number of important finds. Beginning in childhood she made money by finding fossils, often risking her life. Once she was almost buried in a landslide.
#herstory

'With the revolution I was born, like a baby. My first screaming was my drawing' Birthday greetings to Nadia Khiari, cartoonist, graffiti #artist & member of Cartooning for Peace, famed for her Cat of the Revolution Willis from Tunis, celebrating the Arab Spring #womensart

#Greece : Women Press Freedom condemns violent attack on Rena kouvelioti. Investigating unsafe welding, she was assaulted by a company operator, suffering serious injuries. We welcome the arrest of perpetrator & call for swift prosecution. Such assaults must not go unpunished.

OTD in 1929, American author, journalist & The New York Times war correspondent Gloria Emerson was born. Emerson received the 1978 National Book Award in Contemporary Thought for Winners and Losers, her book about the Vietnam War. #GloriaEmerson #WomanOTDay

'All day, as in any other year, the water clock moves slow/A fine rain falls continuously, plums ripening' remembering Japanese poet, painter & calligrapher Ema Saiko, #BOTD (?) 1787. Rejoiced in the freedom of being single & celebrated other female artists #womensart #WOMENSART

A beautiful thought from Maya Angelou. #quote #quote Friday

Carmen Damedoz dancer, artist's model & aviator, last woman to pass French flying test (licence No. 1449) b4 #WWI . Dec 1913 engine failed but won🏅for women's altitude prize. Demanded right to join war effort as aviator, military refused b #OTD 17 May 1890 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmen_Da…

New! From arriving at the port of Constantinople as a teenage bride, to exiling – and blinding – her own son, to boldly crowning herself the first Empress Regnant of the Byzantine Empire, Irene of Athens’ life was a wild ride! Listen! 👇 #WomensHistory whatshernamepodcast.com/irene-of-athen…

Great to see #WOMENSART finally getting the financial recognition as well as the critical acclaim! Women's History Uncovered Women at the Table Sotheby's Women in the Arts (NMWA)
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Remembering the talent and skill of Women Artists🎨 Tamara Lempicka, BOTD 1898, whose unique style often called 'stylized cubism'. Perhaps best known for depicting the ideal woman of the 1920s: elegant, independent, modern,sexually liberated #WOMENSART wikiwomeninred

Alice Everett astronomer engineer, degree Girton College, Cambridge University worked in optics & early television. 1890 1st woman paid for astronomical work @RoyalObservatory 1903 1st woman to have paper published by Physical Society of London Institute of Physics b #OTD 15 May 1865 en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alice_Eve…

Look, real books! And I am signing them

All these Unbound beauties done already

Saint Isidore, early C17th, by #GiuliaCrespi (Italian, 1583-after 1628). Featured in Robilant + Voena’s 2023-4 “Ahead of her Time” exhibition, robilantvoena.com/art-work/saint…
As of now, it is the only work securely attributed to this artist.

#FeastofStIsidore #womenartists #artherstory

The home-made banners and sashes of British Indian suffragettes, whose role in the suffrage movement is often unknown, including that of Princess Sophia Alexandra Duleep Singh, a prominent suffragette and accredited physician in the UK #womensart

#Moldova : #NadejdaRoșcovanu & #VioricaTătaru face hostility while covering pro-Russian march. Protestors attack & threaten reporters due to Tătaru's coat resembling the Ukrainian flag. #WPF denounces, authorities must hold perpetrators accountable.

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We're also celebrating 🇩🇪 Emilie Mayer's birthday today! Join us in celebrating by listening to this clip of her Tonwellen, Op. 30. ♥️🎂🥳🎁🎹🎶♥️

Click on the link to hear the entire piece & for a link to the score on IMSLP.

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