Colourful, A4 wall calendar, with 12 pages plus cover and board back. Includes important dates for the year ahead and significant events from women's history and the major milestones in the battle for women’s rights.
Each page includes a colourful portrait and detailed descriptions of an influential woman or event from history, as follows:
January - Enriqueta Medellín, a Mexican surgeon and environmentalist.
February - Frances Harper, an American abolitionist, suffragist, poet, temperance activist, teacher, public speaker, and writer.
March - Eleanor Marx, a socialist activist and literary translator.
April - Rosalind Frankin, a scientist best known for her vital work in discovering the double helix structure of DNA.
May - Una Marson, a Jamaican feminist, activist and writer and producer of radio programmes.
June - Mabel Howard, a New Zealand trade unionist and politician.
July - Constance Markievicz, an Irish revolutionary nationalist politician, suffragist and socialis; the first woman elected to the UK Parliament.
August - Aretha Franklin, American singer, songwriter and pianist. Honored as the "Queen of Soul".
September - Wangarï Maathai, a Kenyan social, environmental, and political activist who founded the Green Belt Movement.
October - Junko Tabei, a Japanese mountaineer, author, and teacher; the first woman to reach the summit of Mount Everest.
November - Madeleine Riffaud, a French Resistance fighter, poet, journalist and war correspondent.
December - Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, an English physician and suffragist. She is known for being the first woman to qualify in Britain as a physician and surgeon.
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