Notices by CarveHerName (carvehername@mstdn.social), page 2

#OnThisDay, 19 Feb 1951, Egyptian activist Doria Shafik leads a crowd of 1,500 women onto the floor of the Egyptian parliament demanding equal rights for women.

As a result of her - and others' - activism, women were granted limited rights to vote in 1956. She spoke against the Nasser regime in 1957 and was placed under house arrest.

#WomenInHistory #EgyptianHistory #History #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 31 Jan 2013, women in Paris are officially allowed to wear trousers.

The 1799 law had required women to ask police for permission to "dress as men", or risk being taken into custody. Amendments in 1892 and 1909 were made to allow women to wear trousers if they were holding horse reins or a bicycle handle. The law was widely ignored.

Najat Vallaud-Belkacem, France's minister of women's rights, lifted the ban as “incompatible with the principles of equality between women and men”.

Ahem. We post most days* about women who made or make history. We can’t promise all of the women as as cool as this one, but if you want a daily drop of historical women in your feed, we love new followers. ;)

* there are a few days where we have a gap in the data, and sometimes we’ll have a gap in posting what we do have because Mags has IRL deadlines to meet.

@MarkBrigham I rather suspect she would have had Views about that. ;)

#OnThisDay, 24 Aug 1896, an unknown woman cyclist has a beer at the bar in New Jersey - making headlines in the New York Times.

Chapeau!

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #Cycling #WomenCycling #AmericanHistory #ThrowbackThursday

#OnThisDay, 22 Feb 1943, Sophie Scholl is sentenced to death and immediately executed for distributing anti-Nazi literature at her university in Munich, Germany alongside her brother Hans. Hans was also killed.

“How can we expect righteousness to prevail when there is hardly anyone willing to give himself up individually to a righteous cause... It is such a splendid sunny day, and I have to go.”

#WomenInHistory #Histodons #WorldWar2 @histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Jan 1991, Sharon Pratt Kelly (nee Dixon) takes up post as the Mayor of Washington DC. She is the first black woman to lead a major US city.

#WomenInHistory #AmericanHistory #histodons