Great Big Story
The First Woman to Bicycle Around the World
Discover the captivating story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to bicycle around the world. From challenging societal norms to embarking on a global adventure, Annie's journey inspires generations. Separate fact from fiction as her...
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Audre Lorde
Audre Lorde, a trailblazing Black feminist, poet, and essayist, passionately explored intersectionality, identity, and activism, leaving an enduring impact on literature and social justice.
Great Big Story
The First Woman to Bicycle Around the World
Discover the captivating story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to bicycle around the world. From challenging societal norms to embarking on a global adventure, Annie's journey inspires generations. Separate fact from fiction as her...
Great Big Story
The First Woman to Bicycle Around the World
Discover the captivating story of Annie Londonderry, the first woman to bicycle around the world. From challenging societal norms to embarking on a global adventure, Annie's journey inspires generations. Separate fact from fiction as her...
Bridgeman Arts
Women working in medicine and humanitarian aid, c.1960
Women working in a lab. A premature baby in incubator surrounded and cared for by women and nurses. Nurse at radiologists setting a boy for X-ray. Russian female doctor auscultating a young boy. India / Pakistan ? Women anatomy class in...
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Women as teachers, scientists and judges in 1950s - clip features Marie Curie in her lab
A woman welcoming children at nursery school (Ecole maternelle) ( 1950s -1960s). A girls classroom and a woman math teacher. A science class. Women and girls students and their female teacher. 1960s. A young woman and young men studying...
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Women in filmmaking - editing and filming, c.1960
Women in filmmaking - editing and filming, c.1960
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A woman's working day - the rush hour commute, a day in the office, lunch in a restaurant, shopping on way home. c.1960
A train station / Platforms / stairs / Bridge / passerelle (overhead footpath) / commuters. Parisian train station, rush hour. Woman at work, paper filing, answering phone (while smoking a cigarette), secretarial works. Lunch at a...
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A woman's morning routine, c.1960
1960s An alarm clock ringing at 6.30 AM. A 28 years old woman gets out of bed. She is standing in front of the mirror in the bathroom, applying lipstick. Man comes in to get his electrical shaver and smiles at her in the mirror. Goldfish...
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Suffragette Emily Davidson is hit by galloping horse at the Espom Derby, 4th June 1913
Suffragette Emily Davidson protests for women's right to vote by stepping in front of King George V's horse, Anmer, at the Epsom Derby on 4th June 1913, sustaining injuries that resulted in her death four days later.
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Women at work around the world, 1940s-1950s
A cotton threading factory in 1940s - 1950s. A woman piles up 15 large spools on her shoulder. A woman lab technician activating a machine / device. African women seated at workbench assembling and packing very small paper boxes. A young...
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Suffragette parade in New York, c.1915
Suffragettes in New York, USA, march the streets, parading with banners and flags.
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Women in factories, early 20th century
Women coming out of the factory gates, women working with machinery in factories during WWI
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A mother's evening routine, c.1960
A woman picks up her son from creche. Mother and son in the kitchen, Cocotte minute, pressure cooker. Infant son eats and goes to bed. Mother and father / Husband and wife having dinner. Council estate. Buildings lights on at night ( low...
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Female airline stewardess, receptionist, and journalist, 1950s
Stewardess holding a tray with champagne glasses. A receptionist. A bank receptionist (Societe generale / Hall / Lobby / Entrance). Women journalists interviewing.
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Typewriters from 1870s, 1930s and 1950s, women in the roles of stonegrapher, secretary, translator, journalist, 1950s
Typewriters and woman's hands typing ( 1876 / 1930s / 1950s ). Stenotypist at General de Gaulle speech. Women translators with headphones on. A woman journalist at microphone reporting.
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Israelite women in Kibboutz working the fields, sharing meals and voting while the children are in creche. c.1960
Israelite women in Kibboutz working the fields, sharing meals and voting while the children are in creche. c.1960
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Female workers on a construction site in China (1950s?)
Female workers on a construction site in China (1950s?) Clip from a film made in the 1960s about women's liberation and the working woman.