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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) - 08:57, 30 November 2024
- Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage—the right to vote—to women ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 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
- The history of women in the military extends over 4000 years into the past, throughout a vast number of cultures and nations. Women have played ...76 KB (11,315 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- 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
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- of religious faith in her efforts to expand women's rights. She was the ... States, even without her efforts to promote women's rights, is itself ...8 KB (1,157 words) - 06:47, 31 July 2023
- 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) - 08:56, 29 April 2025
- 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) - 08:50, 29 April 2025
- Elizabeth Blackwell (February 3, 1821 - May 31, 1910) was an abolitionist and a women's rights activist, and the first woman in the United ...7 KB (1,033 words) - 16:15, 13 February 2024
- |University type || Private women's liberal arts colleges ... The Seven Sisters are seven highly prestigious, historically women ...12 KB (1,555 words) - 19:50, 21 April 2023
- The Woman's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) is the oldest continuing non-sectarian women's organization in the United States and ...8 KB (1,107 words) - 23:22, 17 May 2023
- 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
- Willard fought for woman's suffrage, women's economic and religious ... of national corresponding secretary of Women's Christian Temperance ...7 KB (1,021 words) - 06:43, 1 April 2024
- Women's History Month is an annual declared month that highlights the contributions of women to events in history and contemporary society ...18 KB (2,541 words) - 23:27, 17 May 2023
- movement and one of Britain's most influential women. More than any other, the name, "Mrs. Pankhurst" is associated with the struggle ...10 KB (1,481 words) - 10:23, 21 January 2023
- for American workers, particularly women and children. Together with ... of laws, first in 1907, Labor laws for women in the United States, on ...10 KB (1,535 words) - 02:16, 11 August 2022
- social reformer, and proponent of women's rights. She is sometimes credited with being the first American feminist but was, more accurately ...11 KB (1,543 words) - 21:38, 17 March 2025
- reformer and social activist, leader of the women's suffrage movement ... In 1908, Breckinridge became chairman of the Kentucky Federation of ...7 KB (1,006 words) - 07:04, 27 March 2025
- She founded many organizations including Women and Children in Reduced Circumstances ... Rebecca was well educated, and had attended women’s high school ...8 KB (1,118 words) - 01:42, 8 December 2022
- She used her influence to promote the status of women, enhancing their ... that forbade noblemen to marry lower class women (like herself). Theodora ...8 KB (1,261 words) - 02:27, 19 April 2023
- Howe, among others, to take up the cause of women's rights. She always ... Sarah, abolitionists but also proponents of women's rights. When the Bible ...11 KB (1,805 words) - 21:06, 18 March 2025
- The term women's suffrage refers to an economic and political reform movement aimed at extending suffrage—the right to vote—to women ...16 KB (2,464 words) - 23:28, 17 May 2023
- 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 (984 words) - 08:16, 24 May 2024
- affairs. The push for greater rights for women, notably the right to vote ... She was active in the women's rights movement and co-edited The ...9 KB (1,440 words) - 09:35, 25 June 2024
- including the NAACP and work with women's suffrage. Her achievements ... Abbott and started to work on issues of women’s employment and juvenile ...11 KB (1,518 words) - 20:48, 13 October 2025
