1MarthaJeanne
https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-london-50268958/when-it-was-illegal-for-w...
is a short video by two British judges about how difficult it was to enter the legal profession in the 70s and 80s.
is a short video by two British judges about how difficult it was to enter the legal profession in the 70s and 80s.
2LolaWalser
If it's okay to understand this thread as "women in history"...
Came across this interesting project by the sf writer and historian Mary Jane Engh, in collaboration with another:
https://www.mjengh.com/femina_habilis_8457.htm
Came across this interesting project by the sf writer and historian Mary Jane Engh, in collaboration with another:
https://www.mjengh.com/femina_habilis_8457.htm
Femina Habilis: A Biographical Dictionary of Active Women in the Ancient Roman World from Earliest Times to 527 CE
Dr. Kathryn E. Meyer (Washington State University History Department) and I are collaborating on this project. Our ambition is to collect all the documented women of this period who had a function other than being someone’s wife, daughter, mother, mistress, etc. We’re very inclusive about those functions, which we’ve sorted into fourteen categories. Thus we include poisoners as well as philosophers, seamstresses as well as empresses. Entry length ranges from a few lines to a few pages, depending on how much information is available. We already have thousands of entries, with many more to be added. Here are a few samples from each category to give you a taste of the contents. (...)
3librorumamans
>2 LolaWalser:
That's a fascinating project, and I hope much of it becomes available online.
To Hostilia, who unwittingly married a slave, I would suggest that wedding a man named Eros is probably never a good idea.
That's a fascinating project, and I hope much of it becomes available online.
To Hostilia, who unwittingly married a slave, I would suggest that wedding a man named Eros is probably never a good idea.
4LolaWalser
Ha!--well, if we indulge in some fanciful etymology, the same could have been said to poor Eros... (hostis=enemy).
Speaking of Hostilia, "litigant", it may be worth noting that when they speak of "functions" they mean as recorded in writing, not always in the sense of "career". This is excellent, gives some idea of the scope of places, events etc. where women were involved.
Reminds me of a glaring negative counter-example--I was reading a fairly famous popular work on the archaeology of Sumer dating from the 40s or the 50s when the author made a casual reference to the presence of female scribes, evidenced on some of the tablets... and then proceeded to crack a "secretary pool" joke and that was it. While I'm going "what the hell, there were women scribes in Sumer?, let me hear about this!"
To the esteemed professor something like that was just an "anomaly" to be ignored. Goes to show how much of our venerated "history" is nothing but personal, capricious, prejudiced wishful-reading. I was reminded of that again with recent discoveries (well, more recent than my university education) that place women where previously only men were supposed to be found.
Speaking of Hostilia, "litigant", it may be worth noting that when they speak of "functions" they mean as recorded in writing, not always in the sense of "career". This is excellent, gives some idea of the scope of places, events etc. where women were involved.
Reminds me of a glaring negative counter-example--I was reading a fairly famous popular work on the archaeology of Sumer dating from the 40s or the 50s when the author made a casual reference to the presence of female scribes, evidenced on some of the tablets... and then proceeded to crack a "secretary pool" joke and that was it. While I'm going "what the hell, there were women scribes in Sumer?, let me hear about this!"
To the esteemed professor something like that was just an "anomaly" to be ignored. Goes to show how much of our venerated "history" is nothing but personal, capricious, prejudiced wishful-reading. I was reminded of that again with recent discoveries (well, more recent than my university education) that place women where previously only men were supposed to be found.
5MarthaJeanne
I have not yet finished reading A Lab of One's Own, but it is a fascinating presentation of what female scientists went through in the second half of the 20th centuries, and how women got together to start to change things.
ETA Her writing skills are amazing.
ETA Her writing skills are amazing.
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