WOMEN
1823 Elizabeth Fry's Gaols Act is passed, mandating women-only prisons with women warders (pictured).
1872 Composer and chemistry professor Alexander Borodin establishes medical courses for women.
1880 November: The Isle of Man grants female suffrage in an amendment to the Manx Election Act of 1875.
1887 Susanna Salter becomes first woman elected mayor in the US. A group of men opposing the involvement of women in politics submitted her name hoping to humiliate all women. She won with a thumping majority and was an effective mayor.
1915 The Council of the Royal Astronomical Society unanimously agrees this motion: "That this meeting approves of the admission of women as Fellows and Associates of the Society and of all necessary steps being taken to render their election as soon as possible."
50 years ago, Dublin pubs refused to serve women pints of beer unless accompanied by a man. Nell
McCafferty led 30 women to a pub where each ordered a brandy and a pint of Guinness. The bartender refused the beer request, so they drank their brandies and walked out.
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1960s/1970s Laws requiring "active resistance" to rape were repealed.
1970 Leaders of the National Organization of Women spearhead a women’s strike in the US. At the time, American women were paid 59 cents for every dollar a man was paid for doing similar work, despite the Equal Pay Act of 1963. Women were barred from some universities such as Harvard (it only changed its mind in 1977).
1978 Hannah Dadds becomes the London Underground’s first woman Tube driver.
1990 Married women in the UK become independent entities for income tax purposes.
2018 Women receive equal prize money in surfing after years of lobbying by women.
2023 Shetland’s Up Helly Aa Viking fire festival admits women and girls into the procession for the first time. (It’s a Victorian “revival”.)
2023 Leicester Cathedral celebrates first all-female clergy team (first for England).
2024 Southern Baptists reject a proposal to ban churches with women pastors.
LIFE IN GENERAL
1612 Last person burned at the stake for heresy in England.
1677 Parliament repeals the writ De Heretico Comburendo, which made burning at the stake the punishment for heresy.
1824 Repeal of the Test Act abolished the requirement to assent to the 39 Articles for many professions.
1830 Last person pilloried in St Albans.
1855 Arthur de Gobineau’s Essai sur l’inégalité des races humaines is published.
1871 The Bank Holidays Act designates four holidays in England, Wales and Northern Ireland, and five in Scotland.
1872 In St Alban's, the last person was condemned to punishment in the stocks.
1873 Jeannie Senior is the first woman in the UK to be appointed as a civil servant (outside the Post Office), as the first female inspector of the education of girls in pauper schools and workhouses.
1888 Brazil abolishes slavery.
1914-18 Queueing begins.
2013 The ban on royals marrying Catholics is abolished.
2008, 2021 The common law offences of blasphemy and blasphemous libel were formally abolished in England and Wales in 2008 and Scotland in 2021.
2021 Legal age of consent (15) is made official in France.
2022 New legislation increasing the legal age of marriage to 18 has come into force in England and Wales. Under the Marriage and Civil Partnership (Minimum Age) Act, it is now a crime to exploit vulnerable children by arranging for them to marry, or enter a civil partnership, under any circumstances. Campaigners argued that a loophole allowing 16- and 17-year-olds to marry with parental consent was being exploited to coerce young people into child marriage. Those found guilty of arranging child marriages face up to seven years in prison. (The Week)
2022 Equalities Minister Kemi Badenoch says the government wants all new public buildings in England to have separate male and female toilets.
2022 Dominic Raab intends to ban transgender prisoners from women’s jails.
Singapore will repeal its ban on sex between men, said Lee Hsien Loong, the country’s prime minister. In 2018, India’s highest court also scrapped a colonial-era ban on gay sex, while Thailand has recently moved closer to legalising same-sex unions. (The Week 2022-08-21)
2022 We are thrilled to announce that the word "woman" will not be removed from our Maternity Protection Act 1994. The Work Life Balance and Miscellaneous Provisions Bill 2022 has been amended, and the word "woman" has been reinstated (in the US). (@TheCountessIE. She points out that “inclusivity” means “excluding half the human race”.)
2022 Florida bans puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and sex reassignment surgery for minors.
2022 Mermaids sued the LGB Alliance for being an inadequate charity. Now Mermaids is under investigation by the Charity Commission.
2023 UK to ban single-use cutlery and plates. (Sales of collapsible cutlery soar as café goers are faced with the problem of eating large lettuce leaves with one, fragile wooden fork.)
2023 Illinois bans assault weapons.
2023 Scots police disassociate themselves from Stonewall.
2023-02-20 Sadiq Khan promises free school meals for all London primary school children.
2023 Eli Lily agrees to cap insulin at $35, dropping the price by up to 70%.
2023 World Athletics votes to exclude transgender athletes (presumably from women’s sports).
2023 Italy makes going abroad to acquire a baby born to a “surrogate mother” a crime.
2023-05-03 Essex pub that hanged racist dolls from the rafters closes after boycott . (The golliwogs were taken down, but the pub owners replaced them.)
2023-05-12 Wind is main source of UK electricity for first time. (bbc.com)
2023 The NHS has banned puberty blockers for children outside of clinical research.
2023 Oxfam chief leaving after anti-trans 'villain' cartoon resembling JK Rowling (Express)
2023 Japan has raised the age of consent (established in 1907) from 13 to 16.
1993 Leeds Supertram Act passed. Since 1993 France has constructed and put into service a total of 22 tram systems.
2023-07-06 Alcohol sales are going down, sales of healthy alternatives are going up. (Expert on BBC Breakfast.)
2024 Lia Thompson loses a legal battle to compete in the Olympics as a woman.
LESS THAN CHEERFUL
Universities in Japan have lowered women's exam scores for years to deny them entrance.
1753 Jewish naturalisation bill, repealed in December the same year.
1929-1973 7,600 people were forcibly sterilised in North Carolina.
2022 Primark is reinstating single-sex changing rooms – but allowing anyone in the women’s who “identifies as a woman”. Booths don’t have doors, but curtains that don’t reach the floor. Staff say they’ve been told they “must” allow in men who claim to be women. (Self-ID is not law.)
2023 Merrythought sell 10,000 Golliwogs a year.
2024: Young women are being diagnosed with alcoholic liver damage.
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