WHN Annual Conference 2026 CfP womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Final CFP deadline is now 30 April.

Mato Bošnjak explores the intersections between gender, labour and migration in post-war Yugoslavia in his post for the Social History Blog: socialhistoryblog.com/gender-equal...

Workplace legal protections have been bravely fought for and cannot be taken for granted. The Fawcett Society’s Penny East interviews Belinda Price who won the first case of indirect sex discrimination in the UK in 1977: vimeo.com/1172869175?s... and www.fawcettsociety.org.uk/blog/why-the...

📢 Delighted to announce launch of @ukri.org #WomensGrassrootsActivism #Activism100+Toolkit 🧰 to mark #IWD2026. Free event on Tues 10 March, 5.30pm (via Zoom). Book your spot via link 👇. @womensinstitute.bsky.social @soroptimistgbi.bsky.social @womenshistnet.bsky.social @whaireland.bsky.social 📢

The #OtD 12 Feb 1970 Leeds Clothing Workers Strike is memorialised in the BBC’s Play for Today, Leeds – United! (BBC1, 31 October 1974). Frances Galt discusses it here: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/2022/03/10/i...

Last chance to register! Annual Lecture Wed 25 Feb, 6-7 PM: “Taking Stock & Looking Forward: The Past, Present & Future of Equality Law” by @colmocinneide.bsky.social, Professor of Constitutional and Human Rights Law at UCL, www.eventbrite.com/e/annual-lec... (hybrid). #equality #law #lecture

Join us for the launch of Moved to Care: Stories of Nursing and Migration. Your chance for a first look around the exhibition. Enjoy free refreshments, an expert panel of speakers and activities. 📆 Thursday 5 March 2026 📍 London ✅ Book your spot: https://bit.ly/4pSGp4z #MovedToCare #HistNursing

Great to hear Jill Craigie will have a blue plaque this year. Her film ‘To be a Woman’ supported the Equal Pay Campaign petition way back in 1951 1/ en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jill_Cr... #womensHistory @womenshistnet.bsky.social

📣 Call for Papers! Join us for the Women’s History Network Annual Conference, celebrating 100 years of The Women’s Library. Open to scholars, independent researchers & heritage practitioners. Full info: womenshistorynetwork.org/whn-annual-c... Deadline: 29 March 2026 #WomensHistory #GenderHist

Born #OTD 1931, Evelyn Owens was a true pioneer: the first female president of an Irish trade union for both sexes, the first woman to chair the Labour Court and, as a member of the presidential commission, the first woman to sign an Irish bill into law. www.dib.ie/biography/ow... #DIBLives

It's published! Histories of women legal historians, edited with @loreldridge.bsky.social and @dremilyireland.bsky.social www.bloomsbury.com/uk/celebrati...

Ashlee Christoffersen @drashleec.bsky.social examines ‘The misrecognition of intersectional justice claims: UK women’s workplace activism of the 1970s–1980s’ in a great new article in Gender & Society: journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🚨Special announcement: our annual conference will be 3–4 Sept 2026 at LSE Library, in collaboration with @lselibrary.bsky.social, & Friends House, London. Theme: Celebrating the Centenary of the Women’s Library: One Hundred Years of Women’s History. Call for Papers coming mid-Jan! #WomensHistory

The Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts came into force 50 years ago on 29 December 1975. Explore our Timeline to see how they have been mobilised since: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk#event-gender... #WomensHistory #OnThisDay #EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

Hilary Cooper’s personal reflection on the 1975 Sex Discrimination Act is a great read in @womenshistoryrev.bsky.social: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hurrah for this and that generation of feminists.

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m... 17 minutes if you want to hear about the fiftieth anniversary of the sex discrimination act (there are lots of interesting items today including excellent women in tribute bands)

After a long battle, Britain’s Sex Discrimination Act came into force in 1975. What did it do for women? 🔓 Lyndsey Jenkins’ new History Matters is free for 7 days www.historytoday.com/archive/hist...

Today is #EqualPayDay - the day when, due to the gender pay gap in average wages, women effectively stop earning compared to men. However, our analysis shows that for many women of colour, this date falls considerably earlier in the year.

📣 Today is Equal Pay Day. Women are still being shortchanged. 👉 Learn more bit.ly/485Ldf5 #EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

Equal Pay has been the law for 50 years so why are we not there yet? Here's the 'long view' on how women's activism has made a difference and what still needs fixing: historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper... #EqualPayDay #WomenAreBeingShortChanged #CloseTheGenderPayGap

As we approach the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay and Sex Discrimination Acts coming into force, a new policy paper by Louise A Jackson considers the impact of the legislation and suggests more needs to be done to entrench equality in the workplace. historyandpolicy.org/policy-paper...

Frances Galt shows that collective action is central to advancing equal pay. See her new article '"Equal Pay or we Walk Away": Litigation and Industrial Action in the Glasgow City Council Equal Pay Dispute' in Industrial Relations Journal - onlinelibrary-wiley-com.eux.idm.oclc.org/doi/full/10....

We're planning an exhibition to mark the centenary of The Women's Library next year. We'd like to feature collections and research that people are working on currently. Please get in touch and let us know.

The 1975 Sex Discrimination Act received the Royal Assent exactly 50 years ago today on 12 November. Whilst flawed, it was pathbreaking – you could no longer be legally sacked because of your sex or marital status ... www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/sex...

📣 NOW ACCEPTING ESSAYS! The Leah Leneman Prize for research on women’s or gender history is open to students & independent scholars. Submit your 8-10k word essay by 22 Dec 2025 📅 Full details: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and...

📢 Women’s History Scotland Conference Registration open! Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland and the Sue Innes Memorial Lecture given by @vawright10.bsky.social 🗓 Saturday 13 Sept 2025, Kinning Park Complex Book here 🔗 www.tickettailor.com/events/women...

40 years ago ... the first support and advocacy group to focus solely on sexual harassment was set up in June 1985 www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk/timeline/wom...

"Women of the World Unite: The United Nations Decade for Women and Transnational Feminisms 1975 to Now' - new exhibition opening on 10 February.

New article on 'Gender and policing in the UK: historical perspectives on 50 years of equality legislation'. Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Hosting a workshop @mansfieldoxford.bsky.social on women, work and wages in the 1970s in September - please see cfp attached or feel free to email me for a normal sized one - students and ecrs especially encouraged

In June 1972, the first issue of Spare Rib was published — a ground-breaking magazine born from the Women’s Liberation Movement. It ran until 1993.

📣 Call for Papers: WHS Conference 2025! 🗓️ 13 Sept | 📍 Glasgow | 🧾 Deadline: 1 July Join us for New Directions in Women’s and Gender History in Scotland—our first in-person conference since 2019! 🔗 Info + submission form: womenshistoryscotland.org/projects-and... Please share widely!

Explore 50 years of campaigning, organising and litigating around workplace gender equalities here: www.genderequalitiesat50.ed.ac.uk#event-gender...