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.

This week, women on the front line during the First World War.

I heard...

Pst, ttt, t't't't't't't't't't't't't't' bullets.

And this is now, because I said, don't I know it?

Let's get that behind that taster and go.

Also, we'll be joining the campaign as battling the Mexico City Smog in the 1980s,

and recalling America's first incident of Islamic terror back in the 1970s.

There were a number of us standing in front of the elevator bank and he had a big smile on his face and he looked at us and he said to us all you people hit the

ground are you're dead. That's all to come. But we're going to begin this week with

gender issues because this past week included International Women's Day. To market we've been looking

at some of the battles women have fought for their rights including the right to

vote. While women in many countries have had the right to vote for around a century in some parts of the world

emancipation has been much slower. On the 7th of March 2005 a group of women held an unprecedented

rally outside the Kuwaiti parliament.

They were trying to force the all-male body

to change the electoral law.

Two months later, they succeeded.

Zainab de Ba'ba has been hearing from Rolodashty, one of the organizers of the protest, who later became

one of the first women to be elected to her country's legislature.

It is the 7th of March 2005, and outside quates parliament hundreds of women are holding a protest

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