WORLD WOMEN'S DAY ~ A VIEW FROM GERMANY ~ 8 March 2023
WOMEN
Today, Wednesday, 8 March 2023, we have "World Women's Day ".
One hundred years ago, in Germany, a woman could not study without considerable resistance; they had few rights, either professionally or privately.
We can be very grateful for today's improved countries. Women in many countries can study and become politicians, researchers, astronauts, doctors or professors…. or whatever. However, the events we are now witnessing nightly on international news reports in Afghanistan and Iran remind us that it is as if men are … …
There is still much to be done, but much has also been achieved.
One hundred years ago, there would have been no Angela Merkel with a political prYet, prevention. Even when I was young, I noticed that women could only obtain an employment contract if their husbands agreed and counter-signed the document.
This law changed only in 1977.
Until 1 July 1958, a man could, if he wished, terminate the woman's employment contract not only because it was his inherent right to do so but, moreover, without her consent. In Bavaria, female teachers had to remain celibate like priests. If they married, they forfeited their teaching career.
To this day, this heteronomous, oppressed, humiliating life makes me angry.
These have always been my trigger points.
There have, of course, been many brave women in the past. One such lady is Bertha Benz (1849-1944), about whom I attach photographs and a collage.
UNFINISHED
Ken Webb is a writer and proofreader. His website, kennwebb.com, showcases his work as a writer, blogger and podcaster, resting on his successive careers as a police officer, progressing to a junior lawyer in succession and trusts as a Fellow of the Institute of Legal Executives, a retired officer with the Royal Air Force Volunteer Reserve, and latterly, for three years, the owner and editor of two lifestyle magazines in Liverpool.
He also just handed over a successful two year chairmanship in Gloucestershire with Cheltenham Regency Probus.
Pandemic aside, he spends his time equally between his city, Liverpool, and the county of his birth, Gloucestershire.
In this fast-paced present age, proof-reading is essential. And this skill also occasionally leads to copy-editing writers’ manuscripts for submission to publishers and also student and post graduate dissertations.
