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International Women’s Day 2017: A Rowing Viewpoint
An early attempt at a non-patronising image of a female rower. Of course, we could debate why a ‘bachelor’ is thought of as a positive thing and ‘spinster’ a negative…
8 March 2017
Tim Koch writes:
Today, 8 March, is International Women’s Day. Despite the fact that the most powerful person in the world, The President of the United States, has been quoted as saying that ‘There’s nobody that has more respect for women than I do’, it has still been felt necessary to hold the annual worldwide event that celebrates women’s achievements, from the political to the social, while calling for gender equality. Rowing has mirrored the prejudice and the progress that women have respectively suffered and enjoyed throughout the years and here are some images to illustrate this.
Auriol Kensington RC at Henley Women’s Regatta, 2015.
and Country
Members of the Canadian Squad rowing as Western Rowing Club at Henley Royal Regatta, 2015.
Ancient…
From the ‘Codex Manesse’ which was produced between 1310 and 1340. I claim that this is the earliest existing image of a woman rowing.
and Modern
The Women’s Wingfields 2013, Imogen Walsh at Hammersmith Bridge. This is a favourite picture of mine, making its third appearance on HTBS. Picture: British Rowing.
Pioneering….
Amy Gentry OBE, a passionate advocate of women’s rowing from the 1920s to the 1970s.
and Persevering
Cambridge hit rough water in the 2016 Women’s Boat Race.
Reflection….
Paralympian, Naomi Riches during her epic 165 mile non-stop Great Thames Row. Picture: Peter Knowles @ukrower.
and Dejection
Henley Women’s Regatta, 2016. The final of the Elite Lightweight Double Sculls: Wallingford beat Exeter University/Edinburgh University.
Sue Brown who, in 1981, became first women to cox in the Oxford – Cambridge Boat Race.
Chauvinist……
‘Rowing’ magazine’s attempt at complementing a woman, 1960.
and Tsarist
8 March 2017 is also the 100th Anniversary of the start of the Russian Revolution. Here, The Tsar, his wife and two of his daughters enjoy a row in 1909.
Dear Goran, I hope you do not mind that I mentioned this excellent post for International Women’s day on the facebook page for cuwbchistory. Thank you for it. I really enjoyed it.
Hear The Boat Sing 
Dear Goran, I hope you do not mind that I mentioned this excellent post for International Women’s day on the facebook page for cuwbchistory. Thank you for it. I really enjoyed it.
Jane Kingsbury
Dear Jane,
Not at all, HTBS would be honoured.
Thank you.