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NOMEN calendar 1976
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Sunday 4 11 18 25 Monday 5 12 19 26 One of the women active in the Paris Commune of 1871 was school mistress and anarchist Louise Michell, known as the "Red Virgin'. At her subse quent trial she unsuccessfully demanded to be shot saying: "Since it seems that every heart that beats for liberty has the right only to a lump of lead, I demand my share!"
Tuesday Wednesday Thursday Friday 1 2 7 8 9 13 14 15 16 20 21 |22 23 27 28 29 30 january Saturday 3 10 17 24 31
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700 women matchworkers employed in the factories of Bryant & May went on strike in 1888 against the terrible conditions under which they worked. The strike was successful and the union of Women Matchworkers was founded as a result.
Thursday Monday Tuesday Wednesday Sunday 2 4 1 3 5 8 9 10 11 12 15 16 17 18 19 22 24 25 26 23 29 Februanu Friday 6 13 20 27 Saturday 7 14 21 28
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Women revolutionaries an their way to imprisonment in Siberia after the armed up rising of 1905.
The position of women in Czarist Russia was summed up by the old proverb: "A wife isn't a jugshe won't crack if you hit har a fow times"
Sunday Monday 1 7 8** 14 15 21 22 28 29 • International Women't Dav Tuesday Wednesday Thursday 2 3 4. 10 9 11 17 16 18 24 23 25 - 30 31 • manon Friday 5 12 19 26 Saturday 6 13 20 27
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BENE Mary Macarthur who was one of the most famous women in the history of the movement, was deply moved by the miserable which countless conditions lived and worked, especially in the sweated trades.
She organised the National Federation of Women F Workers in 1906, believing that the conditions of women workers would be improved by them becoming organised.
Sunday Monday 4 5 11 12 18 19 25 26 FEDERA TIONA L British trade union working women Tuesday 6 13 14 20 21 27 28 WOMEN WORKERS TION OF NEWON LATINAL FEDERNIO NEY WORNES FINOMEN MONT Speak Shame Filley IS A WER WHEN I R OUT CEME Ok l •NARY MALACHIE MARY NACADAR Thursday Wednesday 1 7 8 15 22 29 Oril- ATAXAL FEN KOMEN W add Soonl 15 OUT EN ELAS WRITTE SIXTEE MACAM Friday Saturday 2 3 9 10 16 17 23 24 30
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Sunday 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesday Monday 4 3 10 11 18 17 24 25 31 Thursday Wednesday 6 5 13 12 20 19 27 26 nay In 1910 civil war raged in Mexico, but it was not just men who fought in the Mex Ican Revolution — Adelita, pic tured here, was a famous soldier who was celebrated in a revolutionary song.
Saturday Friday 1 7 8 15 14 21 22 29 28
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required for national The replacement of men service during the Ist World War, eased the way By the end of the war of women into industrythere were % million women employed in engineering alone.
Wednesday Tuesday Monday Sunday 1 2 9 8 7 6 16 15 14 13 23 22 21 20 30 29 28 27 - JUne Thursday 3 10 17 24 Friday 4 11 18 25 Saturday 5 12 19 26
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Ethel Cox, a suffragette convicted of breaking windows at the residence of the Home Secretary and attempting to throw suffragette leaflets into the Royal Carriage in October 1913.
Inset: poster for anti-suffragette meeting.
Tuesday wednesday Monday Sunday 7 6 4 5 14 13 11 12 21 20 18 19 28 26 27 25 JUlY Thursday 1 8 15 22 29 PROSE 2 16 23 30 Demonstration AGAINST WOMAN SUFFRAGE Saturday Friday 3 10 17 24 31
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Sunday 8 15 22 29 Monday 2 9 16 23 30 Tuesday 3 10 17 24 31 395 Two facets of the struggle for women's suffrage Above: 20,000 women march in New York in a 1915 pro-suffrage parade. Below: on Derby day 1913, Emily Wilding Davison, a suffragette, threw "The herself under the Kings horse and died. struggle has begun. It is a life and death struggla...
What we are going to get is a great revolt of the women against their subjection of body and mind to men" (Mrs E. Pethick-Laurence) Wednesday Saturday Thursday Friday 4 5 6 7 11 12 13 14 18 19 20 21 25 26 27 28 auguSt
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Sunday 5 12 19 26 Monday 6 13 20 27 Tuesday 7 14 21 28 Women bathers being arrested in Chicago for wearing one piece bathing costumes - the clinging garments which replaced voluminous all-concealing two pieces.
Friday Saturday Thursday Wednesday 4 3 2 1 10 11 9 8 18 16 17 15 25 24 23 22 29 30 september
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Sunday 3 10 17 24 31 Monday 4 11 18 25 Thursday Wednesday Tuesday 7 5 6 14 12 13 19 20 21 28 26 27 october The 1930s in America were the years of the depression. There was mass unemployment and many families fled to California in search of a new life. (Picture shows migrant mother and her childi Saturday Friday 2 1 8 9 15 16 22 23 29 30
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Republican woman on sentry- 1936-39 duty during the Spanish Civil War.
Sunday Monday 1 7 8 14 15 22 21 28 29 Tuesday 2 9 16 23 30 Friday Thursday Wednesday 4 5 3 12 10 11 17 18 19 24 25 26 • november Saturday 6 13 20 27
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Sunday 5 12 19 26 Monday 6 13 20 27 women workers at Fords, Dagenham, In 1968, voted for strike action to secure equal pay and up This was to mark the beginning of a grading. more active fight by woman workers for equal pay.
Friday Thursday Wednesday Tuesday 3 2 1 10 9 8 7 17 16 15 14 24 23 22 21 31 30 29 28 ember - Saturday 4 11 18 25