International Women's Day
The History Hour
BBC
4.4 • 879 Ratings
🗓️ 11 March 2023
⏱️ 51 minutes
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Summary
Max Pearson presents a compilation of stories celebrating women who made history including a ground-breaking, African American science fiction writer and the first presidential hopeful in Mexico.
Plus the UN's first ever all-female peacekeeping unit, a woman who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland and a child goddess in Nepal.
Contributors:
Dr Brenda Stevenson - Hillary Rodham Clinton Chair in Women’s History at St John’s College, Oxford University. Nisi Shawl - friend of Octavia Butler. Rosario Piedra - daughter of Rosario Ibarra. Nick Caistor - journalist. Seema Dhundia - member of India’s Central Reserve Police Force. Lesley Pruitt - author of The Women in Blue Helmets. Monica McWilliams - one of the architects of the Good Friday Agreement. Chanira Bajrycharya - former child goddess in Nepal.
(Photo: March for International Women's Day in Mexico City in 2023. Credit: Getty Images)
Transcript
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| 0:14.0 | Hello and welcome to the History Hour podcast from the BBC World Service with me Max Pearson the past brought to life by those who were there |
| 0:26.3 | this week has included International Women's Day, so we're celebrating remarkable women from the past |
| 0:31.8 | including a groundbreaking African-American writer of science fiction? |
| 0:35.7 | I was an only child, and I was, I guess you could say very much my own person I kind of constructed my own world as I went along |
| 0:46.2 | A woman who took on the very male world of Mexican politics |
| 1:00.0 | What defined her was her was her optimism and the conviction that she was in a fight for justice. Also women on the front line of a UN peacekeeping mission in West Africa. |
| 1:04.4 | When they saw these girls going out on patrol duty, |
| 1:07.8 | the girls got motivated because they had never seen girls fully equipped so well trained and empowered. |
| 1:15.4 | Plus a woman who helped bring peace to Northern Ireland and an actual child goddess from Nepal. |
| 1:21.6 | All that to come in this podcast. But first, International Women's Day |
| 1:25.2 | itself. What, why and how old? Well joining us now is Dr Brenda Stevenson, who is the |
| 1:31.1 | Hillary Rodham Clinton chair in women's history at St John's College, Oxford University. |
| 1:36.0 | So how did International Women's Day start, Dr Stevenson? |
| 1:39.0 | Well, it started at the beginning of the 20th century really, it's around 19th hour |
| 1:44.0 | items, so that women from the United States, who are mostly immigrant women |
| 1:47.8 | actually from Europe, who are also labor activists and part of the |
| 1:52.0 | socialist parties that, you know that existed at that time |
| 1:56.7 | decided to have a national women's day and they had one in New York in |
| 2:02.0 | 1908 well the idea caught on they had one in New York in 1908. |
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