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Woman of the Day feminist author and activist Helen Blackburn born OTD in 1842 in Valentia Island, a small island off the coast of Co. Kerry. She campaigned for “the equality of men and women both as regards the right of liberty and protection” and against the “unjust restrictions on one sex alone.”
Helen edited the feminist periodical Englishwomans Review from 1890 until 1903, wrote many pamphlets about the working conditions of, and restrictions on, women in Victorian England and established a reputation for her methodical approach. She represented the British National Union of Working Women at the TUC conference in 1881 and in 1889, founded the Freedom of Labour Defence League with Lincolnshire suffragist Jessie Boucherett to try to block unfair legislation for women factory workers.
In 1903, she and her co-author Nora Vynne published Women Under the Factory Act, a detailed critique of proposed legislation that would treat women “as if they had not the intelligence of animals.”
If you relied on a certain online resource, you might be puzzled as to why Helen and Nora “argued that women should be allowed to take risks with their health in the workplace or they may find themselves always in need to protection as if they were incapable.” It sounds as though they were in favour of women behaving like mavericks at work, dicing with injury or death just to prove they were not the weaker sex but, as ever, their arguments were a good deal more nuanced than that.
Women faced invisible divisions and tariffs in the workplace that were entirely sex-based and paid no heed whatsoever to responsibility, skill or merit. They were a way of justifying lower pay, longer hours and poor conditions for women. Here are just a few examples:
A female machinist was assumed to be a seamstress even if she was not, and paid accordingly, while a male machinist was classed as akin to a mechanic. Female box-makers were assumed to work with cardboard, which was child’s play, but male box-workers with wood, which was skilled.
The responsibilities of a butler and those of a pantrymaid differed in just one way: he was permitted to answer the door. The difference in pay however was considerable. Footmen sat and cleaned the silver; kitchenmaids got on their hands and knees and scrubbed the stone floors.
Chefs were male and therefore skilled; cooks were female and let’s face it, all women are born with the innate ability to cook so it can’t possibly be classed as a skill, can it? It stands to reason. The same thinking applied to teaching: women taught domestic science and needlework, both natural womanly traits, while men taught language and typing. Guess who was paid more?
These are not products of my imagination but facts derived from analyses of census returns between 1891 and 1911. This is the sort of thing Helen Blackburn and Nora Vynne argued against. They believed that “what women wanted were more and not fewer opportunities of earning their living."
Helen died in 1903, the same year that her book was published. She was 61. She could never have imagined that it would take 65 years and a strike by sewing machinists Rose Boland, Eileen Pullen, Vera Sime, Gwen Davis and Sheila Douglass and the other 182 women at Ford Dagenham to force the issue of equal pay for women.
Nor could she have imagined that it would take a further 18 years after the Equal Pay Act 1970 before shipyard cook Julie Hayward of Birkenhead could bring the first successful case proving that her work had equal value to that of a man in the same employment.
Women’s rights were hard-won in piecemeal fashion and only after relentless lobbying, campaigning and lawfare, rather like today, in fact. They can be easily lost - and as we all know, they very nearly were. Never cede a single one. Ever. We owe it to the women who came before us and we owe it to the women yet to be born.

Whenever I post #MansWork #ManPause #ManSpread #HePeater #OutManned #FixedIt
I can feel the eyerolls
Ye know who ye are
This ⬇️ is who is on your side
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The storm was named after Jocelyn Bell Burnell, an astrophysicist from Northern Ireland who discovered the first radio pulsars in 1967 as a postgraduate student.

#Mná #Mnáwsome
Hey Jack @jackblack
If you ever want to just talk about your Mam, and tell us all about Judith,
Come join meself, Sharon and Jimmy @ShashLawless @JimmySmyth_ for a #ManPause episode.
We'll pay you back with guitar lessons from Grammy Nominee X2 Jimmy.
And cake.
Judith Love Cohen was an American aerospace engineer who helped create the Abort-Guidance System that rescued the Apollo 13 astronauts.
When she went into labor, she went to work.
She took a printout of a problem she was working on to the hospital. She called her boss and said she finished the problem and gave birth to Jack Black

In 1986, Neerja Bhanot, a 22 year old air hostess from India helped hide 41 American passports aboard hijacked Pan Am flight 73 in Pakistan. She died shielding 3 children from gunfire and was posthumously awarded bravery medals from India, Pakistan and the U.S.

Another #Mná we need to know a lot more about. #ManPause
@ShashLawless @JimmySmyth_
Thanks for introducing Caroline to us Breda @N16Breda
TIL that Caroline Norton - Victorian writer famed for escaping domestic violence & challenging the discriminatory laws against women - was also a granddaughter of Irish playwright Richard Brinsley Sheridan.
One for you @thewildgees - here she is as Erin 💚
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@lorraineelizab6 Peggy has to be added to the #ManPause cast
@JimmySmyth_ @ShashLawless
Her grave remains unmarked
So let's at least relive her memories
A Mná that went from silent movies to talkies to telly
Can't believe all the Paddys in London back then didn't give her a proper send-off. 😞
So that's the 2023
Christmas Special #ManPause sorted
@ShashLawless @JimmySmyth_
And let's prove this⏬ background beauty is the first #feminist #ChristmasCarol
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@FinnClodagh Well I can totally identify with hamming it up on purpose
In fact that's how the Bake'Sheet series started @broadsheet_ie
The more 'Rotide' & co whinged
The more I ramped up the Frilly speak
Hon' Amanda
I'll be adding Amanda to the list lads #ManPause
@JimmySmyth_ @ShashLawless
Kate O'Brien, another female Irish writer more famous abroad than at home, was born in Limerick #OTD in 1897. Themes of female agency and sexuality, pioneer of queer representation. Many of her books were banned in Ireland. 'Rediscovered' in 1980s
https://t.co/6NEPaOxMwy

Remember it well
Awful time for a teenage girl in Ireland
And now I'm 55, and I not a bit afraid to admit we haven't come far enough.
Eileen was one hell of a Mná
No fear and would not allow herself and the love of her life be shamed or discriminated
#ManPause 'her for sure.
Ireland, 1982.
Eileen Flynn is sacked from her position as a teacher as she decides to share her life with a separated father of three and later having a child with him.
1985, the High Court, Eileen loses her case for unfair dismissal.

Mná eile we need to do a lot more talking about
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Congratulations @EAnionwu
Who needs a blue tick when your name is Dame Elizabeth Anionwu with an order of merit to hang around your neck.
Hon' de'Mná
Congratulations to nurse Dame Elizabeth Anionwu who has been awarded the Order of Merit by the King. Britain’s 1st sickle-cell and thalassemia nurse specialist, she follows in the footsteps of Florence, who was the 1st woman to be awarded the Order of Merit in 1907.

Una Watters (4 Nov 1918 #Dublin-20 Nov 1965). Artist/librarian. eg Claíomh Solais/Sword of Light for 50th anniversary Rising, 1966.👩🎓@NCAD_Dublin. Early works religious, later the everyday. Exhibited RHA. Society of Dublin Painters. https://t.co/bPvfPXP45G https://t.co/WVAy9Wrl7h

'definitely need to have a big chat about Petronilla de Meath
And Dame Alice Kyteler
@JimmySmyth_ @ShashLawless @ImprovNeil
Terrible shame the name 'de Meath' isn't about
#ManPause
@FancyVegasPro @EmmaDabiri BTW @JimmySmyth_ and @ShashLawless
I've added Emma @EmmaDabiri to the list of Irish Women we need to hear from more, and talk more about
#ManPause
(coming soon, well as soon a Jimmy stops touring and I put the band back together with @ImprovNeil and JR)
This is Ann Glover, in 1688, she became the last person to be executed for being a witch in Boston.
It was believed by the British settlers in the area she was speaking the devils language.
In reality, Ann was only able to speak Irish.
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