Bloody Brilliant Women: The Pioneers, Revolutionaries and Geniuses Your History Teacher Forgot to Mention

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In this episode we’ll meet Jane Drew, a visionary architect of the mid-20th century; and the better-known novelists Iris Murdoch, Agatha Christie, and Muriel Spark. This was made possible in 1915, when then-Minister of Munitions, David Lloyd George, introduced a policy named dilution. The portrayals of the women in this book are not hagiographic: Marie Curie visits a field hospital run by women during the war, but doesn’t lift a finger to help; Emmeline Pankhurst is a neglectful and sometimes cruel mother. I had great fun writing it as the women I “met” — I feel I met them even though sadly most of them are no longer with us — were such vibrant, colorful characters.

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She had become the first female leader of the Conservative Party, then the first female leader of the entire country on May 4, 1979. We want to empower girls and young people that have periods as wellall those around them to be period proud, so join the movement and let's normalise periods together. Despite being a strong leader, Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher did nothing for the advancement of women.In air battles, British fighter planes with Rolls-Royce Merlin engines struggled to perform the acrobatics needed to outperform the better-equipped enemy planes. But I had no idea that his wife, Jennie Lee, was formidable in her own right, becoming, at 24, the then youngest female MP, and serving as arts minister between 1964 and 1970.

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Given her path to success in politics, she believed hard work would lead to rewards regardless of gender. But it's important that we understand whywe'regetting this pain, howto make it betterandwhat’s'normal'when it comes topain. Her book, Bloody Brilliant Women delves into the colorful histories of lesser-known—but no less outstanding—women who’ve left a lasting impact on the world. But many women actively went against these social expectations, opening clinics, distributing sex education pamphlets and campaigning for more reproductive rights. This is a history of the pioneering women who defied the odds to make careers for themselves and alter the course of modern history.

The marriage also allowed Margaret to study law and hire a nanny to look after the couple’s young son and daughter. You'll meet women who pioneered in the fields of law, medicine, social activism, engineering, and the military, hear their incredible stories, and see how they made history.

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Though a work of gothic fiction, Maria’s fate was a sad reality for many women in Britain’s Georgian and Victorian eras.They’ve told us that children are starting secondary school unclear about who has or doesn’t have periods and anxious about expressing a view that it is a female-only process. The 1997 Labour influx of female MPs – or “ Blair’s babes”, as they became known, thanks chiefly to the Daily Mail – is analysed. In this episode we’ll meet Sophie Mirman, Margaret Seymour, Martha Lane Fox, Penny Smith, Susan Faludi, and Lesley Knox, amongst many others. Through her story we’ll explore the reinforcement of ‘women’s work’ as an established idea during the 1960s, and meet the women who were fighting back. She has previously held positions at Media Week, the Independent and Financial Times as a journalist.