Happy International Womens Day to all Women Out There, Striving To Make This World, A Better, Fairer Place For All Fellow Human Beings. To Mention but A Few, Myself- Mrs Olanrewaju Franks, My four Professional daughters, all contributing in their chosen professional disciplines to making this world a fairer and better world. Today i remember the contributions of these brave women, past and present such as: Mary Prince,( The first account of the life of a Black woman to be published in uk. - Wikipidea) Florence Nightingale,(A Social Reformer, A Statistician And A Nurse In The Crimean War. - Wikipidea) Mary Seacole,(treated the injured and sick during the crimean war.- Primary facts) Mary Slessor,( Stopped the killing of Twins in Calabar) Mary Eliza Mahoney,( The first African American To Study And Work As A Professionally Trained Nurse In The U.S.A. - Wikipidea) Clara Barton,(founder of the American Red Cross) Elizabeth Fry,(English Prison reformer - Wikipidea)Baroness Margaret Thatcher.( The First Female Prime Minister of U.K), Princess Diana(one of the greatest humanitarians of our time, she showed compassion to aids victims by touching and cuddling them,demonstrating to wider audience that you cannot catch the disease by mere touching the infected.), Esther Rantzen, (campaigned for consumer Rights, and campaigned against Child Abuse and Neglect-founder of Childline), Pastor Mrs Foluke Adeboye, Baroness Betty Boothroyd( The First female house of commons speaker in the U.K),Baroness Bakewell, Oprah Winfrey,Michelle Obama, Rosa Parks,Ella Fitzgerald,Tina Turner, Diana Ross, Mrs Yemisi Ashimolowo, Mrs Fumilayo Ransome Kuti, Jessy Norman, Dame Kiri Te Kanawa, Kathleen Battle, Leontyne Price, Baroness Barbara Cattle.(An Instrumental, fearless politician behind equal pay for women and men, introduced child benefit to be paid to women, and not through their husbands salaries, introduced car safety belts , campaigned against the Maw maw ill treatment in the British Kenya war, she spoke out against the army brutality of detainees in Cyprus, she introduced breathalyzer for drink driving in UK, when she herself could not drive then. What a woman!
Posted on: Sat, 08 Mar 2014 12:13:44 +0000
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