#womensday — Public Fediverse posts
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'The lightning is restless as it flashes in the turbulent clouds.
The peacocks announce the mating of earth & sky with their shrill cries.
All lovers meet in the month of Shravana- so then why forsake me my love?'So goes the footnote to this c1820 #Pahari #IndianMiniaturePainting from #Kangra #HimachalPradesh #India on Bonhams auction of 20 March 2025
#HappyWomensDay2025 #WomensDay
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„Charlotte vom Itzelberg“
#Weltfrauentag darum Bilder der #Mäusemädels
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#WordyWednesday: Shrouding Women
When you think of morticians, you might conjure images of creepy old men in black suits. But did you know that they've only been "in charge" of the dead for the last century or so? Before that, men were typically responsible for building coffins and digging graves. Body preparation fell to the women!
Women were already tasked with nursing the sick, distributing herbs, and aiding in childbirth, so bathing and dressing the dead was a natural progression. Since it was a duty that demanded care, gentleness, and propriety, men were simply unsuited to the task. Enter the shrouding women.
Many neighborhood women became skilled and knowledgeable in the art of preparing the dead. They understood the weather's effect on decomposition and how to tend to bodies suffering from various conditions. They lent their expertise to those in need, not for monetary compensation but as an act of community.
Duties included preparing a cooling board (sometimes an ironing board or barn door placed over chairs), washing and dressing the corpse, closing the eyes and mouth (coins on eyes and jaws secured shut with tied rags or forked sticks propped against the breast bone), and otherwise arranging the body into a restful pose.
Commercialization of death care after the Civil War led cabinetmakers to evolve from coffin builders to embalmers. They wrested control of bodies away from women, claiming women were weak, delicate, and unable to tolerate the sight of blood. As the men rose into the ranks of professionals, women were relegated to the sidelines of death care. They became decorations. Trade journal advertisements portrayed men doing funeral work and women as objects of beauty. The foundation was laid for men to dominate the industry for the next 100 years.
Fortunately, we've come full circle and women are entering funeral service in droves. Over 70% of graduating mortuary science classes are women. Turns out we *can* handle some blood after all.
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It’s #InternationalWomensDay! We’re joining in with the #IWD2023 theme to #EmbraceEquity by giving equity a huge embrace with UC Santa Cruz 2nd year undergrad Marissa Omaque. She’s an anthropology major and literature minor and plans to use her anthropology degree to work in ethnography.
Together we can all fight for gender equality.
Join this years IWD campaign by striking the #EmbraceEquity pose to encourage others to help forge an inclusive world.
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Happy International Women’s Day! Shout out to all of my sisters (not just my cis-ters) 💃🏿💃🏽💃🏼💃🏻
Today we celebrate our social, economic, and political achievements, plus bring awareness to gender parity. The World Economic Forum predicts that we won’t achieve global gender equality until 2133!
It’s not all bad news though. Woman in funeral service have been making great strides over the past 20 years. Graduating mortuary science classes are now comprised of over 70% women! The future of funeral directing is most certainly female. 💪🏻
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Very happy to have been contacted to be a part of the campaign #embraceequity by #santander. You can download my illustration as well as the other nine from nine female colleague illustrators from around the world 🥰 at Santander.com
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