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"I find the lure of the unknown irresistible." (Sylvia Earle, oceanographer)
wien.orf.at/stories/3335...
Gespielt wurden die Polka „Sirenen Lieder“ von Josephine Weinlich (1848–1887), die einst in Wien das erste Damenorchester Europas gründete, und „Rainbow Waltz“ der Afroamerikanerin Florence Price (1887–1953).
Neujahrskonzert bringt Werke von zwei Frauen
Beim traditionellen Neujahrskonzert werden erstmals Werke von zwei Frauen zu hören sein. Ein Debüt beim Neujahrskonzert ist es auch für den kanadischen Dirigenten Yannick Nezet-Seguin. Was die Sicherh...
wien.orf.at
January 9, 2026 at 8:56 AM
www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de/ausstellung/...
Ausstellung vom 18.12.25 - 12.4.26
Tove Jansson
DIE WELT DER MUMINS
Vor 80 Jahren erfand die lesbische, finnische Künstlerin Tove Jansson die Mumins, die rundlichen Trolle, die derzeit weltweit gefeiert werden.
Tove Jansson
www.literaturhaus-muenchen.de
December 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Annie Alexander was born #OTD in 1867. A pioneering amateur naturalist & paleontologist whose wealth and passion for science fueled her founding & financing two world-class scientific museums at UC Berkeley: Museum of Vertebrate Zoology (1908) & UC Museum of Paleontology (1921). #WomenInSTEM

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December 29, 2025 at 6:09 PM
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I’d like this moron to explain why blokes who choose to be trans don’t got the whole mile and demand a salary cut to be even more convincing women. Nobody has ever answered this.
December 28, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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The first-ever #sciencefiction story written by a woman?

𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘭𝘢𝘻𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 by Margaret Cavendish, 1666, a satirical utopian fiction set in a parallel world with fantastical tech, hybrid animal-people, and different natural laws. Cavendish died #OTD in 1673.

#scifi #booksky #literature #litsky
December 16, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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UN Projections: At the current rate, it could take nearly 300 years for economic gender parity, with women earning about 80% of what men earn globally.
#OnThisDay, 29 Dec 1975, the Sex Discrimination and Equal Pay Acts came into effect in the UK. These made it unlawful to discriminate based on sex or marital status, and made it a requirement to pay men and women equally for equal work.

#WomenInHistory #History #WomensHistory 🗃️

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December 30, 2025 at 8:21 AM
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Jeden Montag um 19 Uhr besprechen @astrophysikerin.bsky.social und @mpoessel.de mit wechselnden Gästen bei unserer Online-Gesprächsrunde Astro &Co live ein aktuelles Thema aus Astronomie und Astrophysik 🔭

Welche Themen wünscht ihr euch im nächsten Jahr?
Umfrage hier: survey.lamapoll.de/astroco2026
December 30, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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With words attributed to Victor Hugo.

The sun will rise, the days will get longer, the light will return.
I LOVE the winter solstice - the summer solstice fills me with sadness. The Winter solstice fills me with hope.
December 21, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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#Veranstaltungshinweis
Podcast-Release: Unüberhörbar – Ein Podcast über jüdische Frauen in der ersten Frauenbewegung
Wann: Donnerstag, 04.12. | 18:00 Uhr
Wo: Frauenkultur Leipzig | Windscheidstraße 51, 04277 Leipzig
www.louiseottopeters-gesellschaft.de/projekte/unu...
December 3, 2025 at 7:46 AM
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153 years ago, on the 5th of November 1872, Susan B. Anthony and fourteen other women voted in the American presidential election. Anthony was later fined 100 dollars and responded :"I shall never pay a dollar of your unjust penalty." She never did. #otd #history🗃️
November 5, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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Heute 1976 öffnete das erste #Frauenhaus der BRD in Berlin seine Türen! 🏠💜 Ziel: Schutzorte schaffen & Gewalt gegen Frauen als gesellschaftliches Problem sichtbar machen. Mehr zur Geschichte & Frauenhausbewegung im neuen Beitrag! #BlickinsArchiv #GewaltGegenFrauen
November 1, 2025 at 11:01 AM
elibrary.kohlhammer.de/book/10.1743...
Neues Buch von Prof. Dr. Kristina Wolff:
"Wie viele noch? Deutschlands gebilligte Femizide"
Wie viele noch?
Dieses Buch fordert zu einer politischen Debatte auf, indem es ein Bild der aktuellen Situation anhand von Zahlen, Daten und strukturellen Zusammenhä...
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October 30, 2025 at 8:12 AM
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Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91
Sofia Corradi, founder of the Erasmus program, passes away at 91
Known as 'Mamma Erasmus,' she viewed the program, which has sent approximately 16 million students to study abroad through Europe, as her 'personal pacifist mission.'
www.lemonde.fr
October 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
"Am 24. Oktober 1975 legten mehr als 90 Prozent der weiblichen Bevölkerung Islands für einen Tag die Arbeit nieder. Sie brachten das Land zum Stillstand."

www.ardmediathek.de/video/wdr-do...
WDR.DOK: Island: Ein Tag ohne Frauen - hier anschauen
Am 24. Oktober 1975 legten mehr als 90 Prozent der weiblichen Bevölkerung Islands für einen Tag die Arbeit nieder. Sie brachten das Land zum Stillstand. Und machten Island in der Folge zum 'besten Ort...
www.ardmediathek.de
October 24, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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October 8, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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Supreme Court rules that a woman is legally defined as . . . a woman. Congratulations.
And “The concept of sex is binary, a person is either a woman or a man”. Yes, the science was settled in the Precambrian. Nice that the law has finally caught up.
JK Rowling hails Supreme Court ruling on trans women — as it happened
Author and women’s rights campaigner welcomes judgment that legal definition of a woman is based on biological sex
thetimes.com
April 16, 2025 at 4:21 PM
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'Between 50 and 60 athletes who went through male puberty have been finalists in the female category in global and continental track and field championships since 2000, according to a senior World Athletics official.'
www.theguardian.com/sport/2025/s...
Sex tests brought in after data showed 50-60 DSD athletes in finals, World Athletics says
World Athletics’ head of health and science told a panel in Tokyo that DSD athletes were ‘over-represented’ in female category finals since 2000
www.theguardian.com
September 19, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Glad to have participated in this important seminar on Domestic Violence & the Hague AbductionConvention: Safeguarding Survivors.

Thank you to the organizers particularly
@filiacharity.bsky.social HagueMums, Global ARRK, Sanctuary for Families, and EuropaRevibra.
Excellent webinar 🎯🙏🙏

Safeguarding across borders
know the CONTEXT

UNSR Reem Alsalem spoke of

🔑inequality of arms faced by victim-survivors in cases
🔑the ‘multi-layered violence yet to enter the collective conscience as a human rights issue’.
www.hague-mothers.org.uk/2025/09/18/d...
DV & the Hague Abduction Convention: Safeguarding Survivors - Hague Mothers
On 12 September, FiLiA Hague Mothers, GlobalARRK, Sanctuary for Families, and Revibra Europa held a sell-out webinar which looked at the challenges facing mothers and their children who are caught up ...
www.hague-mothers.org.uk
September 19, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Life isn't about waiting for the storm to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain

Vivian Greene
September 20, 2025 at 6:00 AM
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Congratulations to Professor Michele Dougherty on her appointment as the UK's Astronomer Royal – the first woman to hold the position in its 350-year history! 🔭✨

🔗 www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

#Astronomy
UK gets first female Astronomer Royal in 350 years
Prof Michele Dougherty is the first woman to be appointed to the influential post.
www.bbc.co.uk
July 30, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Leider stört der helle Mond dieses Jahr die Beobachtung der Perseiden um das Maximum vom 12. auf den 13. August. Unser Tip: den Beginn der Nacht nutzen, etwa 90 Minuten nach Sonnenuntergang ist es dunkel 1/2 🔭
August 12, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Beauty is in the eye of the treeholder
August 2, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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#JedeWocheEinFoto

KW 01/25

Dieser eine Moment 2024 - wie gut, dass ich ihn fotografiert habe
January 3, 2025 at 10:38 PM