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  • Category:Media Professionals category:biography Patterson, Eleanor Medill Eleanor Josephine Medill "Cissy" Patterson (November 7, 1881 ...
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  • Tansu Penbe Çiller, Her Excellency Prof. Dr. (May 24, 1946 - ) was Turkey's first female Prime Minister, from 1993 to 1995, and the third ...
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  • The Holy Spirit refers to the third person of the Trinity in Christianity. In Judaism the Holy Spirit refers to the life-giving breath or spirit ...
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  • Brahma Kumaris World Spiritual University is an educational organization founded in India in 1937 that offers instruction by nuns based on teachings ...
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  • He Xiangu (meaning "Immortal Woman He") (Wade-Giles: "Ho Hsien-ku" ) is the only female deity among the Eight Immortals figures ...
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  • Islamic feminism is a form of feminism concerned with the role of women in Islam. It aims for the full equality of all Muslims, regardless of ...
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  • Robert Joffrey (December 24, 1930 – March 25, 1988) was an American dancer, teacher, producer, and choreographer, known for his highly imaginative ...
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  • Sita (Sanskrit: meaning "furrow") is one of the principal figures of the Ramayana, a famous Hindu scripture of epic proportions, which ...
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  • Category:Law Category:Sociology Category:Politics and social sciences [[File:-The Blackmail.png|thumb|250px|The harasser threatens the victim]] ...
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  • A eunuch is a castrated man; the term usually refers to those deliberately castrated in order to perform specific social duties that were once ...
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  • The Trinity in Christianity is a theological doctrine developed to explain the relationship of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit described in ...
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  • Dame Enid Diana Elizabeth Rigg DBE, known as Diana Rigg, (July 20, 1938 - September 10, 2020) was an English actress of stage and screen. Her ...
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  • Social constructionism is a theory of knowledge in sociology and communication theory. It holds that characteristics typically thought to be ...
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  • Mary Wollstonecraft (April 27, 1759 – September 10, 1797) was a British intellectual, writer, philosopher, and early feminist. She wrote several ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology Patriarchy (from Greek: Patria meaning father and arché meaning ...
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  • Feminism comprises a number of social, cultural and political movements, theories and moral philosophies concerned with gender inequalities and ...
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  • Category:Public [[Image:Acts-2.jpg|thumb|300px|Christian ecstasy: Apostles receive the gift of tongues (Acts 2)]] Montanism was an early Christian ...
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  • Katherine Johnson (born Creola Katherine Coleman; August 26, 1918 – February 24, 2020), also known as Katherine Goble, was an American mathematician ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Category:Media Professionals Category:Biography Bates, Daisy Daisy Lee Gatson Bates (November 11, 1914 – ...
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  • The Free Soil Party was a short-lived political party in the United States which was active in the 1848 and 1852 presidential elections, and ...
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  • Christina Georgina Rossetti (December 5, 1830 – December 29, 1894) was a Victorian era English poet. Her family was artistically talented and ...
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  • In Islam, the word Houri (Arabic: حورية,‎ also ḥūr or ḥūrīyah) refers to heavenly angels, splendid beings, Surah Al-Waqiah (56): ...
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  • Matilda Electa Joslyn Gage (1826 - 1898) was a suffragist, a Native American activist, an abolitionist, a freethinker, and a prolific author ...
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  • Mercy Otis Warren (September 14, 1728 – October 19, 1814) was an American writer, poet, and playwright. She was known as the "Conscience ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology Sociology is an academic and applied discipline that studies society and human social ...
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  • According to the Hindu religion, Shakti (Sanskrit: meaning force, power or energy) refers to the active, creative and dynamic feminine principle ...
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  • The Civil Rights Act of 1964, Pub. L. No. 88-352, 78 Stat. 241 (July 2, 1964) was a legislatively and morally courageous, landmark effort within ...
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  • Dr. Akhtar Hameed Khan (1914-1999) - a development activist and social scientist credited for pioneering microcredit and microfinance initiatives ...
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  • Rābiʻa al-ʻAdawiyya al-Qaysiyya (Arabic: رابعة العدوية القيسية) or simply Rabiʿa al-Basri (717–801 C.E.) was a female ...
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  • The United Nations Children's Fund (or UNICEF) was created by the UN General Assembly on December 11, 1946. In 1953, its name was shortened ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology [[Image:IQ_curve.png|thumb|350px|IQ tests are designed to give approximately this Gaussian ...
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  • Category:Politicians and reformers Evers, Medgar Medgar Wiley Evers (July 2, 1925 – June 12, 1963) was a black American civil-rights activist ...
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  • A Levite (from Levi, "attached") is a member of the Hebrew tribe of Levi in the Jewish tradition. The Levites served as assistants ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Developmental psychology is the scientific study of progressive psychological changes ...
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  • Koryo-saram (Russian: Корё сарам; Koryo-mar: 고려사람), the name ethnic Koreans in the Post-Soviet states use to refer to themselves ...
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  • A toy or plaything is an object that is used primarily to provide entertainment. Simple examples include toy blocks, board games, and dolls. ...
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  • Nefertiti (pronounced *nafratiːta; c. 1370 B.C.E. - c. 1330 B.C.E.) was the chief consort of the Egyptian Pharaoh Akhenaten (formerly Amenhotep ...
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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 ...
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  • (Russian: Лев Борисович Каменев, born Rosenfeld, Розенфельд) ( July 18|1883|July 6 – August 25, 1936) was a Bolshevik ...
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  • category:image wanted The ethics of care is a normative ethical theory often considered a type of virtue ethics. Dominant traditional ethical ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Sociology [[Image:Paquin3.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Fashion illustration by George ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Sociology [[Image:Gay flag.svg|thumb|right|400px|The Rainbow flag is the most recognized symbol ...
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  • Margaret Eleanor Atwood, Order of Canada (November 18, 1939 - ) is a Canadian poet, novelist, literary critic, essayist, inventor, teacher, and ...
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  • Nursing is a profession within the health care sector focused on the care of individuals, families, and communities so they may attain, maintain ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Psychology Prejudice is an unfair, intolerant, or unfavorable attitude toward a group of people ...
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  • Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Category:Lifestyle Category:Marriage and family [[Image:Merom Golan.JPG|300px|right ...
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  • Martin Luther King, Jr. Day (officially Birthday of Martin Luther King, Jr., and sometimes referred to as MLK Day) is an American federal holiday ...
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  • Ram Mohan Roy, also written as Rammohun Roy, or Raja Ram Mohun Roy (Bangla: রাজা রামমোহন রায়, Raja Rammohon Rae ...
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  • The Sokal affair, also called the Sokal hoax, refers to an article by Alan Sokal, a physics professor at New York University and University College ...
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  • is a form of traditional Japanese theater. Kabuki theater is known for the stylization of its drama and for the elaborate make-up worn by its ...
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