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The table below shows a breakdown by sector of jobs held by women in 1940 and 1950. Women overwhelmingly worked in jobs segmented by sex. Women were still highly employed as textile workers and domestic servants, but the clerical and service field greatly expanded. This tertiary sector was more socially acceptable, and many more educated women ...
African American women involved played roles in both leadership and supporting roles during the movement. Women including Rosa Parks, who led the Montgomery Bus Boycott, Diane Nash, the main organizer of the Nashville sit-ins , and Kathleen Cleaver, the first woman on the committee of the Black Panther Party .
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Women's clubs, like the Texas Association of Women's Clubs also denounced lynching. [116] The purpose of the ASWPL was to end lynching in the United States. [117] [118] Women's groups, like the NACWC, began to support desegregation in the 1950s. [75] The Montana Federation of Colored Women's Clubs led campaigns for civil rights between 1949 and ...
In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and European politics in the UK. Author of hundreds of features in The Guardian, The New York Times, The Independent, and major women's magazines and the paperback Women with X Appeal: Women Politicians in Britain Today (London: Macdonald Optima 1989).
There were 102 people aboard – 18 married women traveling with their husbands, seven unmarried women traveling with their parents, three young unmarried women, one girl, and 73 men. [40] Three fourths of the women died in the first few months; while the men were building housing and drinking fresh water the women were confined to the damp and ...
These laws were relaxed in the late 1950s and early 1960s with the intent of reducing the number of deaths and lifelong injuries women sustained due to illegal abortions as well as serving as a form of population control when used in conjunction with birth control.
Women's rights activist; women's advisor to Labor Prime Minister Paul Keating and editor of Ms. magazine (New York) 1940–1999: Cathy Harkin: Northern Ireland: 1942: 1985: Women's refuge: 1940–1999: Karlina Leksono Supelli: Indonesia: 1958 – 1940–1999: Kazimiera Szczuka: Poland: 1966 – 1940–1999: Lili Taylor: United States: 1967 ...