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Plato said that the one who invented beer was a wise man. He was wrong. In reality, it was a woman. Knew. Yes, beer was invented by them! And not only are they responsible for the discovery, their contributions throughout the history of the brewery have been crucial in its development to conceive it as we do today.
A little more than 7,000 years ago, the brewery began to develop in Mesopotamia; It was the women who mixed the cereal grains with water and herbs, this concoction was made for food purposes. They cooked them... and from that intuitive mixture driven by the need to feed, a concoction that fermented spontaneously resulted.
They soon began to develop their skills around that cloudy and thick, but very nutritious liquid, which was also capable of cheering up the spirit. According to the British historian and beer sommelier Jane Peyton, at that time and for a few thousand years their level of knowledge meant that they were the only ones who could produce it and also market it.
It was in the Middle Ages when the production and consumption of beer took a new turn by adding hops to the mix. A flower that gives the drink its characteristic bitterness, and whose preservative properties allowed it to be stored for much longer.
The person responsible for the discovery that gave this radical change to the brewery was the Abbess Hildegard of Bingen. Of course, this good woman, who combined her role as brewmaster with that of theologian, writer and botanist among others, ended up canonizing her. It's normal that they made her a saint!
With the industrialization of production processes, the role of women ceased to be the protagonist in the field of production, although every day there are more women who enjoy, who know, who produce, who share their passion for this drink that, as we have seen, told, it was never a man's thing.
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A woman, as usual, led the way to more compassionate corporations and employee rights.

For coffee lovers, here is a historical tidbit… ☕️

From an unassuming background in Dresden, Melitta Bentz was a German entrepreneur who revolutionized the way we brew coffee.

Tired of finding coffee grounds in her cup and the mess of cleaning the grounds from the pot, Melitta experimented with ways to filter coffee before pouring it out to drink.

After a few rounds of trial and error, she poured the coffee through a leaf of her son’s notebook paper, finding it to meet her needs: the coffee was free of grounds, and the makeshift filter could easily be discarded.

Based on this success, Melitta designed the disposable paper coffee filters used all over the world today, receiving a patent from the German authorities in 1908, setting up a business that she ran from the family’s apartment. Today the Melitta Group employs over 4,000 people across the world. Not only did she contribute a straightforward, clean way to brew coffee, her company was one of the most progressive employers of its time, introducing Christmas bonuses, five-day working weeks, and a three-week vacation period for its employees. This set a standard for other companies to follow suit later in the 20th century.

Save the date! We are thrilled to announce that the City of LA, in collaboration with the Women's March Foundation and Women's Intercultural Network, will be naming a square 'Woman Life Freedom' in honor of Mahsa (Jina) Amini . This milestone is a testament to the efforts of the Women's March Foundation. Mark your calendars and join us in celebrating this momentous occasion!

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Lift as you rise.

The Second Annual Long Beach Women's Fair was celebrated on Monday, August 27th, the National’s Women’s Equity Day. Long Beach services and community-based organizations specifically for women and girls held 30 information tables. Iranian Circle of Women for International Networking ICWIN, Women's Intercultural Network - WIN along with AAUW Long Beach California, League of Women Voters of Long Beach, Historical Society of Long Beach, and Feminist Uprising were among the organizations that held information tables.

CEDAW Global to Local. Excellent conversation! Thank you International Relations Council and Kansas Women’s Equality Coalition for organizing this event.
If you missed the event, the recording will be shared soon.

Dear Supporters, Partners, and Friends of Cities for CEDAW,The Board of Directors of the Women’s Intercultural Network (WIN) would like to share an exciting update at this critical juncture for the rights of women and girls in the United States. We are thrilled to announce that Parisa Ijadi-Maghsoodi, J.D. and Mary Hansel, J.D., LL.M (biographies attached) have been appointed as the new Co-Chairs of the National Advisory Board for Cities for CEDAW, the human rights movement to promote intersectional gender justice at the local level. Given their legal training, commitment to gender justice, and experience advocating for CEDAW ordinances, we believe they are uniquely positioned to lead the movement and support the tremendous work underway in local jurisdictions across the country. Their priorities for the next chapter of Cities for CEDAW include: · updating and refining the movement’s mission and theory of change;· ramping up efforts to support grassroots advocates and local officials in passing and implementing CEDAW measures;· developing an array of resources to educate and facilitate advocacy;· raising awareness about the movement and importance of CEDAW; · expanding, diversifying, and strengthening partnerships with social justice organizations and other stakeholders; and pursuing funding to increase capacity and ensure sustainability of the movement. Parisa and Mary will work in tandem with the other National Advisory Board members and WIN, which helped launch Cities for CEDAW ten years ago. They will also work closely with grassroots advocates, local o9icials, and partner organizations. In the coming months, our new Co-Chairs will begin regularly sharing updates on the movement via email, social media, and the Cities for CEDAW website (currently under renovation). Please feel free to contact them at [email protected] with questions and comments — and to discuss opportunities for collaboration.

Together, we will meet the challenges of the moment and help to secure meaningful and lasting change for women and girls in our communities.
In solidarity,
Dr. Gail James, Coordinator of Cities for CEDAW (2014-2024)
Elahe Amani, President and Chair, Board of Directors

Her-story.

Georgia “Tiny” Broadwick (1893-1978), the “doll girl.” Married at age 12, a mother at age 13, abandoned by her husband by age 15. Joined Charles Broadwick’s World Famous Aeronauts and traveled the country jumping from balloons. Became the first woman to jump from an airplane, one built and piloted by Glenn Martin, over Chicago in September, 1912. Asked to demonstrate parachuting to the U.S. Army in 1914. On her fourth jump, the static line became entangled with the plane’s tail. Georgia cut it and pulled what remained, thereby inventing the ripcord. You can see her on You Tube on To Tell the Truth.

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As president of WIN, I am truly honored to be invited by Gender Equality Coalition of Kansas City ( our board member Dr. Gail James and active member of the coalition ) to present at this panel for the 2024 Women's Equality Day event, organized by the Gender Equality Coalition of Kansas City and IRC, with a focus on CEDAW (Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination Against Women).
Although the event is in-person, I will be joining via Zoom. Here are the details:
- Date: August 27th
- Time: 5:00-7:00 PM CDT (3:00-5:00 PM PDT)
- Zoom link: (link unavailable)
- Meeting ID: 864 8701 8018
This event is open to public.

As we recognize the ongoing gender apartheid and violence perpetrated against Afghan women and girls, here are some reflections from Latifa Ahmady.

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Hi Camerina,

Yes, I was very involved with NOW and other organizations across the country. I was happy for my niece to ask me at last minute to offer the opening blessing. I worked with WIN “Women’s Intercultural Network” as Chair for many years. Alongside Mairlyn Fowler and Aileen Hernandez and many other dynamic women leaders around the state.

I was at the 4th UN International Women’s Conference in Beijing 1995. My principle focus more recently has been advocating for Native American issues and visibility as always focused on solution-based actions. So, advocating on education around solutions for adaptation to Climate Changes and the critical water issues facing our State and the world.

So, I was happy to have the time and invitation from my niece Madonna Feather, to support her emerging leadership in Santa Rosa, Sonoma County around Native American and Disabled issues locally and now nationally! I believe NOW and our collective goals to implement Human Rights for women and children is closer to manifestation than ever before.

As me and my peers age I am hyper-focused on our land project in Napa County, a protype model implanting forest, water, and land management. Working with other tribes and tribal organizations throughout California.

In solidarity,
Charlie Toledo, Director
Suscol Intertribal Council

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The most learned woman of the 17th century was undoubtedly Anna van Schurman, a polymath who spent her life arguing that women should receive an education as long as it did not interfere with their domestic duties. Other scholars called her the 'Star of Utrecht', the 'Dutch Minerva', the 'Tenth Muse', 'a miracle of the gentler s*x', the 'Incomparable Virgin', the 'Oracle of Utrecht' and the 'Jewel of Learned Women', all of which sounds pretty outstanding for a time when the vast majority of women were thought to be intellectually inferior to men.
But then she was different, a prodigy whose brain could not be contained.

A Dutch Calvinist, she was born in Cologne in 1607. Her family was wealthy, pious, educated, well-connected and modern, as her father broke the conventions of the time by teaching her along with his sons.
He may have had no choice, for Anna was so curious and clever that she could read by the age of three. By the age of eleven she had read Seneca in Latin and was fluent in German, English, Italian, Spanish and French, as well as being proficient in mathematics, astronomy and geography.
She was also artistic, creating intricate lace-like paper cut-outs at the age of six, detailed embroidery at ten, and a wax self-portrait at eleven so lifelike that her friend pricked one of the jewels to see if it was real. During this period she also taught herself calligraphy and glass engraving, all of which merged into a passion for wood engraving that she later developed by studying with the daughter of a renowned engraver and publisher. Her work was so good that she became an honorary member of the Painter's Guild.

The family settled in Utrecht when she was nineteen, following the death of her father. Her neighbour was a professor of theology and Eastern languages at the city's main university, and he was soon taken with her linguistic and intellectual abilities. He introduced her to two other professors, who in turn introduced her to the city's poets and philosophers.
Her living room became a meeting place where intellectuals discussed all sorts of issues. Some fell in love and proposed to her, writing poems to convince her, but she could afford to be celibate and chose to remain independent.
She would have liked to further her academic interests by studying at university, but women were excluded on the basis of three fundamental beliefs: that they lacked the natural ability to study, that it was unseemly for a Christian woman to do so, and that it would be a waste of time as women could not hold public office.
So when she was asked to write a Latin poem in honour of the University of Utrecht, she decided to use the opportunity to complain about the exclusion of women. The university authorities listened and allowed her to attend lectures behind a curtain so as not to distract the male students.
She became the first Dutch woman to enter such a prestigious institution and used it to gain a law degree, while also learning Hebrew, Greek, Aramaic, Arabic, Syriac, Samaritan Hebrew, Persian and Ethiopian, which enabled her to read the ancient texts in the original language, including the Bible and the commentaries of the Fathers of the Church.
Emboldened, she wrote a dissertation in Latin arguing for the education of women. It was printed and distributed throughout Europe, and soon she was receiving letters from all the learned women of her time as well as from important cultural figures such as René Descartes, Marin Mersenne and Constantin Huygens.

Towards the end of her life, she became involved with a contemplative religious sect founded by the Jesuit Jean de Labadie. Labadism was a mystical offshoot of Catholicism that preached the importance of communal property, an austere lifestyle and daily communal Bible study, which allowed her to pursue her theosophical interests. Crucially, Labadie also believed in the equality of all believers, including women, who were allowed to hold leadership positions within the movement and were encouraged to participate in all religious activities.
Her intellectual peers were shocked and opposed her, but she stood by her new faith and eventually renounced the Reformed Church through a public pamphlet arguing for another reformation. She gave up all her possessions and became co-leader of the group. They eventually founded a Labadist community on the outskirts of Amsterdam, where she continued to correspond with a variety of people on theosophical subjects until her death.

Through her radical ideas and linguistic skills, she successfully challenged the prescribed roles of women in 17th century Europe and planted the seeds for our equality, access and inclusion.

Self-portrait, 1633, Museum Martena, Netherlands

Simonnetta Gatto

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Join us as we commemorate the strides made in women's rights and engage in a meaningful conversation about the continued efforts necessary to attain genuine equality. Together, let's celebrate our accomplishments and address the challenges that still lie ahead in our pursuit of a more just and equitable society for all.

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It’s World Humanitarian Day.

Today and every day, we honour the brave humanitarians worldwide who sacrifice their lives to aid those in need.

We must end the normalization of increasing attacks against civilians and aid workers.

Let us !

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