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- International Women's Day (IWD), marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political, and social ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
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- The Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW) is an international convention adopted in 1979 by the ...11 KB (1,631 words) - 02:51, 8 January 2024
- for her work in Boston, where she organized women into various unions to fight ... Throughout her life she advocated women's suffrage, housing for ...7 KB (992 words) - 16:10, 7 November 2022
- living and working conditions of working women in Boston. Joining the Women ... In 1886, she joined the Women's Educational and Industrial Union ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 16:13, 7 November 2022
- is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the ... public health, sanitation, and international peace. As the movement ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- John Mott), notably for her work with the Women's International League ... of war. In 1915, she took part in the International Congress of Women at ...10 KB (1,611 words) - 18:17, 13 February 2024
- International Women's Day (IWD), marked annually on March 8, is a major day of global celebration for the economic, political, and social ...18 KB (2,637 words) - 10:37, 6 March 2024
- and Australia, corresponding with International Women's Day on March ... its beginnings back to the first International Women's Day in 1911 ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- 梨花女子大學校), refers to a private women's university in central ... values to Korean society through Korean women. {{Infobox Korean name ...11 KB (1,562 words) - 23:53, 24 March 2024
- football association (FIFA, French for International Federation of Association ... many discussions on setting up an international body, but was perceived ...12 KB (1,724 words) - 00:03, 25 March 2024
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political ... Women's suffrage is the most widely applicable aspect of the ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is sometimes ... became a teacher. Her interest in women's rights began when ...11 KB (1,557 words) - 02:27, 5 November 2022
- Island. Paired with a knowledge of the women’s suffrage movement, Grace ... #039; Hull House, a center for proactive women engaging in areas such as ...7 KB (998 words) - 12:14, 24 January 2023
- the General Assembly in promoting international economic and social cooperation ... committees of the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) known ...13 KB (1,735 words) - 11:44, 3 May 2023
- She participated in the International Congress of Women at ... Addams' commitment to the needs of others and her international ...13 KB (2,111 words) - 08:58, 1 April 2024
- housing reform, and advocated on behalf of women’s suffrage, world peace ... and 14. Shortly after, she enrolled at the Women’s Medical College of New ...8 KB (1,096 words) - 01:43, 26 October 2022
- in the Seventh Congress of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance ... Keller, Dorothy Day, Alice Paul, and other women activists, to form the Congressional ...12 KB (1,773 words) - 06:32, 11 January 2024
- also worked specifically for the benefit of women, reducing the maximum workweek ... over one hundred people, most of them young women, died in fire. The image ...8 KB (1,176 words) - 06:42, 1 April 2024
- movement, which involved thousands of women from across the religious ... Williams led a women's movement for peace that consisted of ordinary ...12 KB (1,943 words) - 23:29, 11 January 2023
- would have been difficult for most American women: Having grown up in a nation ... commitment to humanitarian work and international women's rights issues ...15 KB (2,137 words) - 15:44, 7 December 2022
- and helped spur the growth of the International Ladies' Garment ... Italian and Eastern European immigrant women, some of whom were as young ...8 KB (1,360 words) - 05:05, 5 November 2022
