Ada Flatman

Ada Flatman (1876–1952) was a British suffragette in the United Kingdom and the United States. She was sent to Holloway Prison after taking part in the "raid" on the Houses of Parliament in 1908, led by Marion Wallace Dunlop, Ada Wright and Katherine Douglas Smith, and a second wave by Una Dugdale. The following year she was employed by the Women's Social and Political Union (WSPU) to organise their activities in Liverpool, taking over from Mary Phillips. In July 1910, Flatman was a key speaker at one of the platforms in the 10,000 women rally at Hyde Park, London. She worked with Alice Stewart Ker, but it was Flatman who was trusted by Emmeline Pethick when Liverpool requested that they be allowed to open a WSPU shop. The shop was set up for her by Patricia Woodlock and became a success, raising substantial funds for the cause. Flatman organised the publicity surrounding the release of Woodlock, who had completed a prison term in Holloway.

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Judit Polgár

Judit Polgár (born 23 July 1976) is a Hungarian chess player. She is generally considered the strongest female chess player of all time. In 1991, Polgár achieved the title of Grandmaster at the age of 15 years and 4 months, at the time the youngest to have done so, breaking the record previously held by former World Champion Bobby Fischer. She was the youngest player ever to break into the FIDE top 100 players rating list, ranking No. 55 in the January 1989 rating list, at the age of 12. She is the only woman to be a serious candidate for the World Chess Championship, in which she participated in 2005; she had previously participated in large, 100+ player knockout tournaments for the world championship. She is also the only woman to have surpassed 2700 Elo, reaching a career peak rating of 2735 and peak world ranking of No. 8 in 2005. She is the only woman to be ranked in the top ten of all chess players, first reaching that ranking in 1996. She was the No. 1 rated woman in the world from January 1989 until her retirement on 13 August 2014.

She has won or shared first in the chess tournaments of Hastings 1993, Madrid 1994, León 1996, U.S. Open1998, Hoogeveen 1999, Sigeman & Co 2000, Japfa 2000, and the Najdorf Memorial 2000.

Polgár is the only woman to have won a game against a reigning world number one player, and has defeated eleven current or former world champions in either rapid or classical chess: Magnus Carlsen, Anatoly Karpov, Garry Kasparov, Vladimir Kramnik, Boris Spassky, Vasily Smyslov, Veselin Topalov, Viswanathan Anand, Ruslan Ponomariov, Alexander Khalifman, and Rustam Kasimdzhanov.

On 13 August 2014, she announced her retirement from competitive chess. In June 2015, Polgár was elected as the new captain and head coach of the Hungarian national men's team. On 20 August 2015, she received Hungary's highest decoration, the Grand Cross of the Order of Saint Stephen of Hungary.

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Women's vintage hats with a veil

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Gender and Custom: Women's Memories of Traditional Land-Management Practices

http://www.gutenberg-e.org/geh01/geh13.html

Women's "cultivating community" had vital consequences in terms of their access to arable land. Formal grounds for belonging to the political community of the chiefdom—and thus rights to means of subsistence, as enjoyed by vinyi va tiko—were, according to custom, more numerous for men than for women. Officially, for a woman to enjoy the status and land rights of a n'winyi wa tiko she had to have been born in or married to a member of the chiefdom. Men, on the other hand, could move fairly readily from one chiefdom to another, becoming an owner of the land simply by pledging allegiance, through the procedure of kukondza, to authorities where they decided to settle. Nineteenth-century travel accounts reveal that itinerant women were not unusual in the Magude area even before migrant labor and Portuguese colonialism generated ever growing numbers of "women without men." Yet an unattached woman who suddenly appeared in a rural community was more likely to be met with suspicion by customary authorities than if she arrived in the company of a man. According to women's version of tradition, though, an unattached woman seeking to settle in a new location had a good chance of gaining acceptance if she could claim kinship of some kind with a local individual or family. Informal networks of land-based kinship and community thus made the boundaries of the tiko permeable to women in a way patriliny did not, because a woman who could establish a foothold on the land—by obtaining a field from a woman with whom she shared vuxaka,even just vuxaka bya matinyo—could, through her habitual interaction with members of the cultivating community, solidify her claim to belonging to that community.

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Dr. Corrie Moreau

See her bio here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corrie_Moreau

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Read the graphic novel about her: The Romance of Ants

11 women cartoonists THEY love...

From: The GoComics Team 

March is Women's History Month and we wanted to ackowledge some of our great female cartoonists. Enjoy 11 comics from the pioneers like Cathy Guisewite and Jan Eliot to more newcomers like Sarah Andersen and Huda Fahmy. 

https://www.gocomics.com/comics/lists/1722852/11-women-cartoonists-we-love

Cathy Guisewite, Jan Eliot, Lynn Johnston, Georgia Dunn, Dana Simpson, Olivia James, Sarah Andersen, Connie Sun, Huda Fahmy, Chen Weng, and Chuck Mullin.

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I guess I missed this back in March. (See "Best Of"→ Comic Lists)  At first, I thought GoComics was just spotlighting pioneers, but then they threw in some newcomers, too. Apparently, I'm somewhere in the big middle (19 years/Shoecabbage, 14 years/Frog Applause). I wonder how many other women creators were also around in March... but didn't feel the 💖 love.**😁

Going through the A-Z list, I found the following female creators:

(I hope I didn't miss anyone. I count 59, including myself and the 11 above. I may have miscounted.)

**Joey Alison Sayers, Marguerite Dabaie, Amanda El-Dweek, Lela Lee, Lisa Benson, Pat Chen, Rosemary Mosco, Catana Chetwynd, Jennifer Babcock, Cathy Law, Lorie Ransom, Julie Larson, Melissa Lomax, Megan McKay, Patty LaBan, Cathy Thorne, Signe Wilkinson, Jenny Campbel, Gemma Correll, Maria Scrivan, Christina Stewart, Rebecca Hendin, Dami Lee, Alex Hallatt, Olivia Walch, Bea R., Paige Braddock, Alexis E. Fajardo, Teresa Logan, Carol Lay, Ann Telnaes, Melissa DeJesus, Allison Garwood, Maiji/Mary Huang, Carla Ventresca, Sarah Graley, Shaenon K. Garrity, Jen Sorensen, Christiann MacAuley, Sandra Barthauer, Nicole Hollander, Tavisha Wolfgarth-Simons, Angie Bailey, Jackie E. Davis, Kate Ashwin, and Dana Maier.

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Women given invasive exams without being told why...

Australia has raised "serious concerns" with Qatar after women were reportedly subjected to invasive internal exams as they tried to board a flight from Doha to Sydney.

The examinations reportedly happened after staff at Hamad International Airport discovered a newborn baby in a terminal toilet.

The baby remains unidentified and is being cared for.

Thirteen Australians were among those said to have been examined.

They were taken to an ambulance on the tarmac and told to remove their underwear before being examined, Channel Seven reported.

The women were not told why they were being examined before boarding the Qatar Airways flight on 2 October.

The Australian government has raised the incident with Qatari authorities. 

"We have formally registered our serious concerns regarding the incident with Qatari authorities and have been assured that detailed and transparent information on the event will be provided soon," a spokesman for the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade told local media.

A spokesman for New South Wales police, which runs the hotel quarantine operation for those arriving in Sydney, said of the incident: "Those women completed mandatory quarantine in NSW, during which time they were provided with medical and psychological support by NSW Health."

Qatar Airways have not yet responded to a request for comment.

A spokeswoman for Hamad International Airport said: "Medical professionals expressed concern to officials about the health and welfare of a mother who had just given birth and requested she be located prior to departing" the airport. 

The airport is seeking information about the mother, while the child is being cared for by medical and social workers. Source: BBC

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