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Female figureheads given stamps to mark honour



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Published Date: 14 October 2008
SIX women who defied discrimination to help change attitudes in male-dominated areas were honoured in a new set of stamps today.
The new stamps include images of equal pay campaigner Barbara Castle, women's rights activist Millicent Garrett Fawcett and her sister Elizabeth Garrett Anderson, the first British woman to qualify as a doctor.

Marie Stopes, children's campaigner Eleanor Rathbone and civil rights activist Claudia Jones are also honoured.





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  • Last Updated: 14 October 2008 9:59 AM
  • Source: Edinburgh Evening News
  • Location: Edinburgh
 
1

Florestan,

glasgow 14/10/2008 12:24:05
Marie Stopes was a racist and Nazi sympathiser. She was a supporter of eugenics and the fascist race theories of the day, going so far as advocating that weak people (the mentally and physically disadvantaged) did not have the right to live. OK, so there are many people today who think that, so perhaps she is an icon for our times after all.

In 1935 she attended a conference on "population science" in Berlin and sent Hitler a collection of her poems on the eve of WWII.

A perfect reminder of feminism's gift to the world.....
2

Andrew,

14/10/2008 14:08:46
We already have HM The Queen's figurehead on all our stamps. What other "female figureheads" do we need?
3

JayDeeTee,

14/10/2008 20:11:14
#2, We could have the two women in today's Hootsman stories, both challenging traditional male-doiminated areas.

The one who stole seventy grand by fraud, and the other who bit another woman's finger off.

We are more equal as a society than we think....but the media choses to pretent otherwise.


 

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