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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
- March 13, 1906) was a prominent American women's leader and abolitionist ... women as students. She founded the International Women's Suffrage Council ...18 KB (2,853 words) - 13:58, 28 April 2023
- Ireland. The Peace People consisted of women from both sides of the Northern ... event, and soon after, the two co-founded Women for Peace, which later became ...10 KB (1,559 words) - 10:55, 9 March 2023
- in her writing was revived by adherents of women's studies in the 1970s ... in the publication of her magnum opus, Women and Economics. ...12 KB (1,666 words) - 00:42, 5 December 2023
- and 1958, and was inducted into the International Tennis Hall of Fame in 1971. ... Tennis Hall of Fame and the International Women's Sports Hall ...19 KB (2,597 words) - 08:38, 23 July 2023
- the early 1950s, both national and international competitions involved ... By the 1954 Olympic Games, apparatus and events for both men and women ...18 KB (2,771 words) - 07:20, 28 July 2023
- regardless of their gender. However, few women have been elected to comparable ... people's wounds. She is an advocate of women's role in peacemaking ...17 KB (2,476 words) - 17:14, 13 February 2024
- of triple abundance: Wind, stones, and women—and its reputation as an ... tied down by straw rope, and Yeoda (women), since there have long be ...15 KB (2,191 words) - 18:01, 2 April 2024
- in teaching the game of basketball to women. Naismith was himself an ... physical education teacher at the YMCA International Training School in Springfield ...14 KB (2,207 words) - 08:49, 18 March 2024
- to the formation of the wartime Women's Auxiliary Army Corps ... mask, remain inspirational especially to women who want to pursue a career ...19 KB (3,058 words) - 08:12, 18 March 2024
- #039; guild. She was one of only two women at the time who gained entrance ... A Dutch Master and Her World, an international team of art, economic ...11 KB (1,680 words) - 21:00, 4 October 2022
- century. She was strongly motivated to help women in the throes of poverty ... inexorably related. While her ideas about women being able to decide how ...14 KB (2,043 words) - 08:32, 10 March 2023
- her short life to advance equal rights for women and minorities. ... used to tease her by commenting that French women were better than African ...9 KB (1,369 words) - 17:27, 29 September 2023
- , a euphemism for the up to 200,000 women who were forced to serve ... and Southeast Asians to serve as Comfort women in military Comfort Stations ...27 KB (3,743 words) - 00:07, 8 January 2024
- |type =Private women's college |endowment = $530 million ... Mount Holyoke College is a liberal arts women's college in South ...17 KB (2,398 words) - 01:44, 11 March 2023
- Amnesty International (commonly known as Amnesty or AI) is an international ... Amnesty International was founded in 1961 by a Roman Catholic British ...30 KB (4,487 words) - 00:59, 9 January 2023
- though secular advocates do exist. The Women's Christian Temperance ... Most of the biggest supporters in all countries have been women, often ...23 KB (3,290 words) - 05:37, 27 February 2023
- #039;s death, the sons marry Moabite women, Orpah and Ruth (Rut, רוּת ... In order to provide food for the two women, Ruth gleans in the fields ...10 KB (1,594 words) - 00:40, 19 November 2023
- Currently, women ski jump internationally in the Continental cup. ... the sport. The Executive Board noted that women's ski jumping has yet ...18 KB (2,601 words) - 22:45, 29 January 2023
- used by feminists to explain the position of women in society. Feminist conflict theorists argue that women have traditionally been oppressed so that ...10 KB (1,445 words) - 08:14, 14 January 2023
- inspiring movements as diverse as the YMCA, Women's suffrage, socialist ... hygiene, child labor, education, war, women's issues, and workers ...14 KB (2,040 words) - 21:44, 30 January 2023
- Argentina so ballroom dance has a truly international following. ... After a review by the International Olympic Committee, ballroom dancing ...17 KB (2,435 words) - 05:57, 26 August 2023
- is a foundational document of modern international human rights law. It ... not a treaty...It may well become the international Magna Carta..." ...26 KB (3,859 words) - 12:00, 3 May 2023
- The National Consumers' League, Women's Activism, and Labor ... org/ The Child Labor Coalition] is an international organization committed ...10 KB (1,430 words) - 04:10, 11 March 2023
- The Internationale Eislauf Vereinigung, now known as the International ... quot;takes a carnival look" during international skating championships ...27 KB (4,168 words) - 15:19, 27 April 2023
- culture. His style of composing gained international recognition for his symphonies ... set European style of composing giving international recognition to his symphonies ...11 KB (1,503 words) - 10:09, 4 January 2023
- Soviet Union and the subsequent erosion of women's rights.[http://www ... A very small number of abductions result from women who kidnap babies ...15 KB (2,257 words) - 04:00, 6 October 2022
- nieder! (Ground Arms) that earned her international acclaim. In 1891, she ... her death she was Vice-President of the International Peace Bureau in Geneva ...26 KB (4,056 words) - 17:15, 29 September 2023
- for the Northern European mermaids, half-women and half-fish creatures that ... had the form of sparrows, below they were women, or, alternatively, that ...10 KB (1,575 words) - 22:34, 29 January 2023
- considered to be a major precursor to international human rights instruments. not make any statement about the status of women, nor did it explicitly address ...17 KB (2,728 words) - 23:49, 26 July 2022
- |type = Private women's college |endowment = $1.125 billion ... Smith College is a private, independent women's Liberal arts ...19 KB (2,939 words) - 21:18, 30 January 2023
