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@TheAttagirls @sharrond62 @CatherineHume10 When you say men you actually are referring to an extremely small proportion of men. Working class men didn’t have the vote until women got it and many had to die in WWI b4 that this vast majority never attended university.

UK history has been recorded since before the Domesday Book. Men could be awarded university degrees in 1230. Cambridge finally capitulated and awarded degrees to women in 1948. Men first took seats in Parliament in 1265. Women had to wait till 1918. Men could vote in 1832. Women had to wait till 1918. Men were legally persons in their own right. Women were chattels (the property of fathers or husbands) until coverture was finally knocked on the head in 1991. That’s not a typo. 1991. It is true that one of us is certainly silly and historically illiterate. I leave it to serious historians to decide which…

There is no Woman of the Day today. Instead, I want to explain why I do what I do. No one really knows who first said, “History is written by the victors” but I’d bet you any odds it was a man. Think of your schooldays and count the number of times you learned about the roles played by women in shaping history, other than regnant Queens and perhaps Marie Curie and Florence Nightingale. Yet women lived, worked, networked, debated, campaigned, organised, invented things and built them too - but you’d never know this if your lessons, like mine, were confined to history books. For a practical example, just look around you. Fridge, washing machine, dishwasher, ironing board, home security system, call waiting system, car heater and windscreen wipers, even the very first computer algorithm: all invented by women. Are you surprised? Confined to the house, denied access to higher education, barred from engineering, denied entry to all branches of science and the professions for centuries, those bright analytical minds turned their attention to their immediate surroundings and saw what was needed to free them from domestic drudgery. In return, history ignored women’s achievements, glossed over them or consigned them to dusty footnotes. If all else failed, their work was credited to - or stolen by - men, the phenomenon known as the Matilda Effect, first identified by feminist Matilda Joslyn Gage in 1870. In 1993, it was named for her by historian Margaret Rossiter who said, “It is important to note early that women’s historically subordinate ‘place’ in science was not a coincidence and was not due to any lack of merit on their part. It was due to the camouflage intentionally placed over their presence in science.” Once you see it, you cannot unsee it - the Matilda Effect is everywhere - but now substitute ‘history’ for ‘science’. The proposition still stands. What I try to do is to pierce holes in that camouflage by writing about the almost-invisible women of history who overcame manmade barriers and changed the world. As a Second Wave feminist, I thought we’d won all the big battles, that it was just a matter of mopping up the resisters and dragging them into the 20th century. I did my bit to redress the balance in an overwhelmingly male environment, but how had I managed to miss the barefaced theft of our words, our spaces and services, our sports? How had we suddenly been reduced to a walking collection of body parts? It was a wake-up call. Once I saw, I couldn’t unsee the terrible damage being done to girls and young women who did not conform to the offensive sexist stereotypes being imposed on them by men who mimic women and their inane female cheerleaders. It made me fearful for non-conforming girls: tomboys. They need to see strong women as role models, women who don’t care about performing femininity, women who defy convention and do things their way. If you can see it, you can be it. So I went digging around in those dusty footnotes, found a little gold and started from there. I found thrilling tales of women who were inventive, resourceful and brave. Then I started sharing what I found more widely, tied to the calendar as Women of the Day. How do I find them? Often by pure chance. I go looking for one woman, spot a couple more names along the way - women whose stories really resonate with me - and file them away for the right time. Women’s history had been right under my nose the whole time. I just hadn’t realised that you needed to dig a little. The rather unexpected bonus was that in giving them a voice, I found mine. I am a conspicuously law-abiding woman, a former prison governor, and if you had told me when I retired that one day, I’d be standing outside a police station in protest at the hounding of gender critical women and singing “Go catch some rapists” to the tune of Guantanamera, I’d have advised you to seek immediate medical attention for the effects of the bump to your head. But here I am, telling women’s stories, and behind the scenes, pursuing a second career as a women’s rights activist. I won’t ever fall asleep at the wheel again. Tomorrow, I’m off to Cardiff with my Women of Wessex sisters, to protest about @bphillipsonmp’s inexplicable decision to delay laying the EHRC Code of Practice before Parliament — and make no mistake about it. It IS a decision; one that is causing real harm and damage to the rights of women and the protection of children. Some of you come for the occasional stories of women in history hiding in plain sight, but I hope you stay because you care about fairness and safety for women. For now, I leave you with this thought from the 1949 memoirs of Somerset suffragette Nelly Crocker (1872-1962): “Modern young women seem unaware of the price paid for their political and social emancipation, and modern historians have greatly ignored the struggle”.

@bbcburnsy @HullCity Been coming here since the 70’s. We never get nowt. Not a single decision. Having said that we were poor in possession and should have buried this team. So many chances so few shots. Poor and passing up point after point.

There'll be a sense of @hullcity injustice in this 2-1 loss at Sheff United. A 2nd yellow for Lundstram in the 2nd-half the pivotal moment. At the time they're good value for an early McBurnie goal, but then Hamer scores a disputed pen and Ings poaches late. Nervy now #hcafc

🎙️ Chris Wilder on Hull City "I think if you go from a statistical POV people will be scratching their heads and thinking 'how are they up there?' They're up there through personality, character and we know half of them and they're up there on merit because they've won games of football and found ways to win big moments and to turn losses into draws and draws into wins. We're the opposite. They're in a position they deserve to be in. Whatever the way they set up, whether they sit in or press they enjoy the suffering when they have their backs against the wall and when they're on top they put teams to bed." [sutv] #twitterblades #sufc

@Uzzell01 I thought she came on to talk about Bev Town.

Why did she need to say this now?

@harveyutt1 There are at least 3 players you dropped that will be in the side.

This team tomorrow? #hcafc

@MH_HCAFC I don’t think any of us could say what our strongest team is. Brilliant defensive display v Cov. No Hughes or Giles. Great win away to Millwall. MvBurnie on bench no Gelhardt. List of great displays without key players goes on and on. They can’t all start so we must trust Sergei

Players finally returning to fitness as the season is about to finish, not once have we had a fully fit squad this season, if we get in the play offs we may well be able to field our strongest possible team for the first time this season 👀 #hcafc

@elonmusk Wonder how it would cope with busy roundabouts in London or the madness of driving in Naples? Doubt it would move at all as its settings would be too timid.

Tesla driving itself around LA

@NTynesideTiger Good result as GD v Wrexham now back in play. Still 15 pts available to all teams around us but probably best outcome for us.

Wrexham v Soton tonight. I suppose the worst result for City is a home win. Let's not panic whatever happens though. We will still be ahead of both of them by the end of the night, regardless. #hcafc

@Uzzell01 First home game in a long time where we started both halves on the front foot. Also most energetic display of season. They all worked their socks off.

I thought we were very good tonight. The back 4 were awesome, especially Ajayi. Keep Collyer and Amir in that CM. Point gained imo.

@Uzzell01 Despite Ali McCoist I think that was singularly the worst commentary I have heard. Painfully embarrassing.

I don't like Leeds, but the commentator was desperate for West Ham to go through. London bias?

@Rattie_Ash @XiThice The FA own Wembley and maximise revenue to pay for the rebuild.

@XiThice Agree with this. I don’t understand why semi finals got moved to Wembley. Should definitely get played at a neutral ground, how about Principality Stadium in Wales? Feel that would make a great stadium for the semi finals.

Who else thinks the FA Cup semi-finals shouldn't be at Wembley? They should be played at neutral grounds like Old Trafford, Anfield, Villa Park, or St James' Park, leaving the final as a Wembley exclusive!

@kellbrook55 And the fans leaving and then coming back fiasco. Poor on them and in a way justice done. They embarrassed their club and themselves and got home defeated well over an hour later.

Danny Dyer, that prick 20 year old GK and the insufferable commentary made that game even more draining than it already was. How many times did they repeat the same stats? Also sounded like they wanted Ampadu arrested for his tackle😂😂

@kellbrook55 From a neutral. Absolutely this. They found about 109 ways to state Leeds hadn’t been in a SF for 39 yrs and once the GK arrived forgot all about the opposition. Also Joe Cole saying they back to Wembley for a SF for 1st time in 39 yrs but SF’s were never played at Wembley then.

@HcafcT Doubt he drops Coyle

Team for today? Pandur Drameh Ajayi Hughes McNair!!!! Lunny Collyer Belloumi Crooks Millar Mcburnie Think Joseph and Joffy need a rest. We need pace on the counter attack. #hcafc

@HarveyJB24 They missed a sitter right at the end. Looked easier to score. We were off it but got a point.

Upon reflection, we had moments yesterday, could’ve easily won it, Joseph had a chance, crooks had a couple half chances and if we hadn’t given away the pen I think we go on to win comfortably. Did anybody actually see Oxford scoring again? Think we controlled the game mostly.

@hcafcboothferry He came on at Portsmouth and gave the ball away on every occasion he touched it His poor display yesterday was actually an improvement. He should be no where near this team. I slouched when I realised he was coming on.

I can’t remember a player coming in midway through a season and looking so far off the pace like Dowell. Late into every tackle, can’t pick a pass, why has been brought on here? Baffling. #hcafc

@JM_HCAFC Joffy had the control of an oil drum today. Agree Joseph was poor but Millar hasn’t shown anything since he came back.

Taking off Belloumi and Joffy our 2 players who actually looked like doing something… Sergej lost his head #hcafc

@bbcburnsy @HullCity Our big players never showed up. chance to put pressure on those above us and distance on those below us. Conditions dreadful but we never adapted to them at all. Away point can’t be dissed but what could have been is the regret. Still in our hands is the only positive.

A point for @HullCity at Oxford in a 1-1. They failed to build on an early Belloumi goal and let Oxford back-in with a self-destruct penalty. Grateful to keeper Phillips for some late saves and a big miss from Oxford's Harris. Not their best, could have been worse. #hcafc

@NathanielWhitto We also need to turn up.

Technically we want a Boro Millwall draw today so if we win we're 3 points off 2nd #hcafc

Derby Day. Watching from Oxford. #hcafc