#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.

Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 10 Feb 1917, plant pathologist Johanna Westerdijk becomes the first woman appointed as a professor in the Netherlands when she joins Utrecht University.

Two of her PhD students, Bea Schwarz and then Christine Buisman, identified the fungus causing a disease in elm trees. They were building on Dina Spierenburg's work which had identified it as a new disease.

Hence it being called Dutch Elm disease.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #WomenInSTEM #Histodons

These are the eighteen women elected as MPs in Turkey #OnThisDay, 8 Feb 1935. It was the first time women in Turkey could vote, and stand, in parliamentary elections.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #Histodons

These are the eighteen women elected as MPs in Turkey #OnThisDay, 8 Feb 1935. It was the first time women in Turkey could vote, and stand, in parliamentary elections.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #TurkishHistory #Histodons

"The typewriter, from its birth, has been tied to a set of assumptions about gender and skill. These assumptions persist to the present and color our cultural understanding of typists’ labor.

[...]

“It looks complicated, but the men who designed it made it simple enough for a woman to use.” And many women did [.]"

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/typing-for-love-or-money/

#essay #writing #typewriter #literature #books #WomensHistory #history

#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 5 Feb 1919, Mary Pickford co-founds United Artists in Hollywood. The production company was an attempt by actors and directors to control their own work rather than being owned by a studio.

#ReclaimTheFrame #HollywoodHistory #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 2 Feb 1953, Dr Anna de Waal becomes State Secretary for Education, Arts and Sciences in the Netherlands. She is the first woman to hold a ministerial cabinet post in the country.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #DutchHistory #Histodons

#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 30 Jan 1913, Ida B Wells forms the Alpha Suffrage Club in Chicago, Illinois, to give a voice to Black women who had been excluded by national suffrage organisations because of their race.

In March 1913, the club headed to Washington DC to take part in the national Women’s Suffrage Procession. They were told to march at the back, in a segregated section, so as not to upset white southern women.

#WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #AmericanHistory #Histodons

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#OnThisDay, 29 Jan 1891, Liliʻuokalani is sworn in as Queen of the Hawaiian Kingdom.

She is the first, and only, regnant queen of the country and is deposed in a coup in 1893 that was supported by the US marines.

#RegnantWomen #WomenInHistory #OTD #History #WomensHistory #Histodons