Women's History Month

Emilee
Emilee Online Community Member Posts: 378 Empowering
edited March 1 in Coffee lounge

Did you know it’s women’s history month?

I would like to share some history about being a woman in this world:

  • Women couldn’t speak in public
  • Women were not allowed to show their faces in public
  • Women were not allowed to be heard singing or reading aloud, even in their own homes
  • Women were not allowed to attend secondary school or university
  • Women were only allowed in public with a male chaperone
  • Women were only allowed to travel with their husband (or if unmarried a married relative’s) permission
  • Women were not allowed to look directly at a men they are not related to by either blood or marriage
  • Women were not allowed to be attended to by a male physicians (but can’t become doctors themselves, meaning restricted or zero access to healthcare)
  • Women were seen as property to be purchased, sold, beaten and worse

Wait, that’s not history, it is currently happening, in 2026, in this “everyone’s world”. Yes, not here in England, but that does not make the victims any less relevant or any less real. It does not make the issue any less serious or important.

Happy Women’s History month!

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Comments

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,471 Championing

    ❤️❤️❤️

  • Bluebell21
    Bluebell21 Online Community Member Posts: 1,523 Pioneering

    Hi @Emilee thank you for sharing this.

  • Mary_Scope
    Mary_Scope Posts: 4,210 Scope Online Community Children and Family Specialists

    Thank you for sharing @Emilee!!

  • MW123
    MW123 Scope Member Posts: 2,052 Championing

    Just a reminder that International Women’s Day is on Sunday, 8 March 2026.

    For anyone interested, there’s a free online virtual conference that afternoon from 2:00 pm–4:00 pm, hosted by the London Intercultural Centre. It’s open to all women and brings together women leaders, professionals, entrepreneurs, and change‑makers from around the world for discussion and learning.

    If anyone would like to join, see link below.

    https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-womens-club-international-womens-day-2026-tickets-1984138592943

  • Emilee
    Emilee Online Community Member Posts: 378 Empowering

    Thank you @MW123

  • WhatThe
    WhatThe Online Community Member, Scope Member Posts: 5,471 Championing
    edited March 8

    8th March

    Happy International Women's Day to all my sisters across the world ❤️

  • Emilee
    Emilee Online Community Member Posts: 378 Empowering

    https://youtube.com/shorts/t_n7u3y7Zx8

    "It's international women's day, and aren't we lucky how good things have got?

    But if you feel like the world isn't made for you, that might be because it's not…"

    Did you know all the following are based on men?

    • Chair backs and lumbar support
    • Size of a phones
    • Office temperatures
    • Seat belts
    • Airbag deployment
    • CPR (and crash test!) dummies
    • Headrest positions
    • Medical research
    • PPE
    • Heart attack symptoms to look out for
    • Autism and ADHD presentation
    • Desk heights
    • Grab rails

    …and many, many more!

    Happy International Women's Day for Sunday!

  • Emilee
    Emilee Online Community Member Posts: 378 Empowering
    https://forum.scope.org.uk/discussion/comment/1107755#Comment_1107755

    And to you @WhatThe ❤️

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