Women's History Month 2023

Historically, women have too often been unsung and their contributions unnoticed. Women’s History Month is an opportunity to celebrate the achievements of women. Arts and Humanities are integral in correcting the historical narrative and furthering the fight for gender equality.

Making Women's History Public

Professor Julie Gottlieb and MA student Emily Calcaft explain the importance of making women’s history public to ensure historical figures and concepts are well represented in public consciousness.

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Research highlights

Book cover. No Love in War. Valerie H Hobbs. A drawing of a revolver gun.

No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism

The next book from Dr Valerie Hobbs, from the School of English, is No Love in War: A Story of Christian Nationalism. The forthcoming book is an auto-ethnographic account of the everyday – and often violent – realities of life without love, among those who pursue war.

Read Dr Valerie Hobbs' blog

Venus sits on bed with her left foot on a tortoise
From Alciato, Emblematum Libri (Lyon, 1556), courtesy of University of Glasgow Archives & Special Collections: SM 36, folio L2v

Desperately seeking Susan: Looking for women’s voices in early modern dialogue

Wives should be ‘chaste and shamefast, modest and silent, godly and discreet’ - Elijahu Wilcocks’, 1595. Professor Cathy Shrank explores the association in early modern Europe between female speech and female unruliness.

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Photograph of a female aerialist

Queens of the Air

Amy Stewart, a PhD student with the School of English, introduces some of the 19th century female aerialists and explores how they broke down barriers and rewrote the rules when it came to gender stereotypes and sexist beliefs.

Remarkable female aerialists who rewrote the rules

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Sheffield Women of Steel sculpture by Martin Jennings
Women of Steel sculpture by Martin Jennings, outside Sheffield City Hall, Barkers Pool

Our research

Through blogs, podcasts, journals and more, explore world leading research from across the Faculty of Arts and Humanities which has sought to recognise the contributions of women and lead the way towards a world where gender equality is the norm.

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A woman dancing holding feathers.

Events

A number of events are taking place across the Faculty exploring concepts such as the intersectionality of race, religion and gender. Events also highlight the achievements of women such as renowned psychologist Irene Champernowne and Philosopher Sophie Bryant.

What's on

Biba Metcalfe

Student blogs

Students from across the Faculty reflect on their own experiences as women, how their courses ignited their passion for gender history, and opportunities they’ve had to impact the design of modules to reconsider critical approaches to gender.

Student work

Our University community

Gender equality

The University is working to progress gender equality by talking openly about our challenges and hopes.

Gender equality at the University

University priorities

Read about our priorities including the gender pay gap, governance and gender equality in research.

How we're striving for gender balance

Building an equal world

From telling the histories of Muslim women to breaking down barriers and stereotypes in mathematics, University staff are helping to build an equal world.

Read our stories