Thursday, 16 April 2015

Tell me again how women couldn't work before feminism?

https://twitter.com/oldpicsarchive/status/588659122888974337




Female photojournalist Jessie Tarbox on the street with her camera, 1900s.

More examples: https://archive.today/nDhM5

3,289 women candidates, and the researchers have as-yet-unprocessed data for about 1,800 more.* The total number of campaigns in the database is 4,480; in a startling 3,339 of those campaigns, women candidates were successful.

Chmielewski also pointed out that if the researchers had included women who were appointed to office, or held civil service positions, the number of those who had served before suffrage would have been much bigger. “We would have been at about 50,000 women,” she said.
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16 Apr 2015 11:20:30 UTC

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