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On #MayDay remember Minna Cauer (2nd from right) who in May 1889 set up the Commercial Union of Female Salaried Employees in Germany, an early female union. In 1896 she presided at the International Congress of Women's Work and Women's Endeavours. #MayDay https://t.co/YdoqpLi1tU

Today we celebrate medieval Arab mathematician Sutayta al-Mahamali (d. 987 CE). Born in Baghdad, a widely-consulted scholar of science and jurisprudence, she solved problems of inheritance requiring knowledge of a brand new field: algebra. https://t.co/SOUK78YX0a #WomenInSTEM

In April 1950, German-born physicist Maria Goeppert Mayer published her shell model of the atomic nucleus, for which she would become the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in Physics - and which she did without a permanent scientific job. https://t.co/FRKjXfn53b #WomenInSTEM

#otd in 1888 African-American soprano Sissieretta Jones made her NY debut at Steinway Hall. She performed at the White House in Feb 1892 & toured internationally, by 1895 becoming the best-known, highest paid African American performer of her day. https://t.co/91NOklI94V #Opera

In early 1941, aeronautical engineer Beatrice Shilling developed a restrictor nicknamed 'Miss Shilling's Orifice'. It solved the problem of fighter planes cutting out during dogfights. She received an OBE in 1947 for her contribution to victory in WWII. https://t.co/BxAmZ9Zxbu

On this anniversary of the Paris Commune we remember Nathalie Lemel, a union member, equal pay campaigner and anarchist who participated on the barricades at the Commune de Paris of 1871. She later worked for the paper L'Intransigeant, and died in 1921, . https://t.co/KvobknQLao

Happy birthday, Isabella Augusta, Lady Gregory, dramatist & co-founder of the Irish Literary & Abbey Theatres, born #otd in 1852! Raised in a class identifying with British rule, she turned against it & wrote retellings of Irish myths. https://t.co/BrwWQrb09Q #WomenInTheatre

#otd in 1954 Egyptian poet & activist Doria Shafik, who in 1951 led 1500 women to storm parliament, began an 8-day hunger strike protesting a constitutional committee without women, until the president wrote to her committing to respecting women's rights. https://t.co/m9EshcKS7J

Today we celebrate Italian Baroque artist Artemisia Gentileschi, born 1593 and the first woman to become a member of Florence's Accademia di Arte del Disegno. She was also a rape survivor. "As long as I live I will have control over my being.” #IWD2019 https://t.co/44yMOGSnCW

#OTD in 1897, Scottish-born writer, teacher and reformer Catherine Helen Spence became the first Australian female political candidate to stand for election. Called 'The Grand Old Woman of Australia', Spence is commemorated on the five-dollar note. https://t.co/NfvzlCwPWJ