Today (on 8th March) we’re celebrating the International Women’s Day. Through history this day stood for woman’s fight for equality and the opportunity to vote.
In some parts of the world the whole of March is honored to women and is known as Woman’s History Month. Where celebrated, March is used for education around the importance of women in history, science and establishing social structures.
While prepairing this post and scrolling through my contribution page, I realized that I didn’t have any submissions under this aspect.
But now I’m highly motivated to change that and dig deeper in women history and important influence in my area.
How about you?
Do you have something in your contributions to share, or do you have a Pokémon Go postcard?
Did you ever think about this possible aspect of wayfaring?
Let’s celebrate all our women around the world today
“This is a man’s world, this is a man’s world
But it wouldn’t be nothing, nothing without a woman or a girl” (James Brown)
So many of our squares and statues are about wealthy men of the past the development of this area was a deliberate move to try a readdress that balance - one step at a time.
The benches all have small information plaques about notable local females.
I’m pretty sure if I was around at the time of suffragettes I would have been part of that movement……but I’m not that old
I love celebrating the outstanding accomplishments of women, but we can also highlight the essential role they have played through the millenia of providing stability to society as mothers and grandmothers (not roles I will ever have).
This mural celebrates women as matriarchs of the family.
Here’s one I got accepted this past year - a historical poet and educator! I’m from a city renowned for suffragettes and abolitionists, so while we have a great many such Wayspots in town, most of them were submitted long ago. I had to travel a bit to find this marker, but it was worth it!
This will surely pale compared some of the other wayspots I expect to see in this thread, but here is my contribution.
Description:
Brown Hall is named in honor of Janie Poole Brown, a distinguished member of Elon’s faculty. Dr. Brown is a professor emerita of physical education who retired after a 39 year career at the university where she was a prominent advocate for the advancement of women’s athletic programs at the collegiate level. She was awarded the Daniels-Danieley Award and the Elon Medallion for her distinguished service to the university community.
(Yes, she is a pofessor emerita. Dr. Brown is currently 86 years old.)
This is not my nomination, but is located on the campus of my alma mater. The hall was named in her honor while she was still living. I am honored to say I had the privilege of meeting her and visiting her home multiple times while in college. By then she had been retired for almost 20 years.
Dr. Hosmer was an alumna of the Crane School of Music, studying under Julia Crane. She then went on to teach there and later was its dean for over 30 years until her retirement in 1966. She was very well known and highly regarded as a music educator.
She was one of the first women to conduct the New York Philharmonic when the Crane Chorus (founded by her in 1931) performed with the philharmonic. As a sad statement of the times, at her first rehearsal with the orchestra several musicians reportedly walked off the stage, refusing to be conducted by a woman.
North Country Public Radio broadcast an audio biography of her in 1985:
This mural is outside a local skate park near me! The artist, Nikita Ares painted it to encourage people to “skate like a girl”. I’ve seen a couple girls skating when walking by, so it seems to be working.
The mural is very wide, so I hope my photo does it justice.
As part of an arts program in my area, local artists submitted pieces of art to be transformed to cover traffic boxes. I’ve nominated a few, but this is one of my favourites and I’m all about supporting local artists.
I can share this mural that I have gotten accepted literally a few hours ago.
Solitude / Connection is a 2-part Mural made by UK artist Eloise Gillow, which shows two women displaying the two states of relations mentioned in the title. This was part of the Pfffestival in Stuttgart, Germany.
