{"id":724,"date":"2018-03-08T12:08:25","date_gmt":"2018-03-08T12:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/?p=724"},"modified":"2018-03-08T12:10:46","modified_gmt":"2018-03-08T12:10:46","slug":"international-womens-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/","title":{"rendered":"International Women\u2019s Day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 International Women\u2019s Day (8<sup>th<\/sup> March) has arrived in the midst of the Universities and College Union\u2019s industrial action in defence of your lecturers\u2019 pensions. As such, we in the School of History felt it would be a good time to reflect on the role of women in industrial and political action through time. Women have often been active members of such actions, and in this the centenary year of female suffrage (for some) in the UK, it is a good moment to pause and think about the women of the past and their campaigning, suffering and triumphs in the face of oppressive power structures. Women of the past can inspire us all \u2013 men, women and trans-persons of the present \u2013 to campaign for what we believe in, speak truth to power, and win rights for ourselves and others. To quote from the Mary Poppins song \u2018Sister Suffragette\u2019:<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><em>Cast off the shackles of yesterday!<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Shoulder to shoulder into the fray!<br \/>\n<\/em><em>Our daughters&#8217; daughters will adore us<br \/>\n<\/em><em>And they&#8217;ll sign in grateful chorus<br \/>\n<\/em><em>\u201cWell done, Sister Suffragette!\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right\">Dr. Emily Manktelow<br \/>\n(Acting EDI Officer, School of History)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 2018 International Women\u2019s Day (8th March) has arrived in the midst of the Universities and College Union\u2019s industrial action in defence of your lecturers\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/2018\/03\/08\/international-womens-day\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2580,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[112454,124],"tags":[173182,151382,5077,173185],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2580"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=724"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":731,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/724\/revisions\/731"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/history\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}