On International Women's Day, here are 10 remarkable Dutch women
Dutch NewsDutch women get a lot of stick at times – for working part-time, for dressing down and for letting their children run riot. So here, to celebrate International Women’s Day, are the brief stories of 10 Dutch women who broke the mold. Lokerse then started out on a public speaking tour to highlight the plight of servants, occasionally whipping out her son Jan ‘the cause of my unhappy fate!’ An aviator Beatrix de Rijk is the first Dutch woman aviator. A gay bar owner Bet van Beeren was the legendary owner of gay bar ‘t Mandje on Amsterdam’s Zeedijk. A popular writer Annie MG Schmidt, whose work for children and adults remains as popular as ever, was dubbed ‘the spare queen of the Netherlands’, so familiar a presence was she in most Dutch households through books like Jip en Janneke, Abeltje, the tv show Ja Zuster Nee Zuster and much much more.
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