There’s so much pressure on women not to be ‘exclusionary’ but it’s always been men who have been the exclusionary ones. Today I’m launching a new project, No Women Allowed, exploring how, globally, past & present, men have curtailed women’s freedoms, and women have fought back. - ThreadSky

rachelhewitt.bsky.social • 14 days ago

There’s so much pressure on women not to be ‘exclusionary’ but it’s always been men who have been the exclusionary ones.

Today I’m launching a new project, No Women Allowed, exploring how, globally, past & present, men have curtailed women’s freedoms, and women have fought back.

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sianushka.bsky.social•14 days ago

I realised the importance of women only space when a friend was invited to meet a minister to talk about women’s inclusion in peace negotiations… at the minister’s male only club. She had to get a letter to be allowed in. Radicalised me!

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

Some examples: after WW2, men in the UK, US and Australia banned women from entering pubs and bars. In the 1970s-80s, women protested: chaining themselves to the bar, storming pubs, and taking proprietors to court. In the UK, the ban was overturned in 1982.

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

In Thailand in 2019, men banned women from enrolling in its chief Police Academy, decimating numbers of female officers - despite the fact that the law states that women reporting rape can ONLY do so to a female officer.

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

Women were banned from serving alcohol in New Zealand between 1910-1961; a ban which was actually fought for by female protestors who wanted to protect barmaids and clamp down on culture of male drunkenness and violence.

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

In the US, there was briefly a state law that permitted women aged 18-20 to drink beer, but NOT their male counterparts. This was ruled unconstitutional in 1976.

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

In 2015 in India, women began the #HappyToBleed campaign against the Hindu temple Sabarimala, which banned any woman who might be of menstruating age, and suggested women wouldn’t be allowed until the invention of a period-detecting device

rachelhewitt.bsky.social•14 days ago

In Malaysia, women who gave birth abroad couldn’t confer their own citizenship onto the baby; meaning that women faced a choice between living abroad permanently; returning home without their child; or bringing the child, who would be stateless and not qualify for free education or healthcare

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