Tag: women
Ancient Egypt’s Queen Hatshepsut was Called a Militant Suffragette
The following article, originally published in 1913, compares the ancient Egyptian Queen Hatshepsut to the suffragettes of the time. Indeed, the queen did have to…
Women Embalmers in 1908
It was something you would never suspect, but there was an urgency for women embalmers in the past. This was mostly due to the fact…
80 Year Old Woman Goes to College
Imagine going back to school in your 80s, in the year 1911, as a woman. This one brave soul had a hankering for knowledge and…
10 Ridiculous Things Men Of The Past Have Said About Women
Women are intellectually inferior to men, vain, melancholic, morbid, and, we have to admit, a little bit nuts. We women might think we rule the…
A Women’s Bank Opened in New York in 1902
Imagine a bank made just for women. That is what opened up in New York City back in 1902, during a time when all money…
Adventures of the Female Cowboy of 1891
In the 1800s, it was rather common for women to dress up and live as men. Firstly because the pay was better than jobs offered…
220 Suffragettes Jailed in London
The suffragettes were some awesome and well determined women for their time. Early 1900s newspapers are filled with their stories. Some papers spoke of the…
A Call For Women in South Africa 1902 – After the Second Boer War
Men hate us until they don’t have us. In 1902, after the Second Boer War, the soldiers left in South Africa settled down only to…
Female Husband George Green
It was fairly easy for women in the 1800s and early 1900s to present themselves as a man. They would dress as men, take office…
10 Realities Of Ancient Roman Prostitutes
In ancient Greek society, they were often called the “companions to men.” Ancient Romans, however, viewed prostitutes as mere business transactions and called them “earners.”…
