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The women of the Famous Five included Emily Murphy, Henrietta Muir Edwards, Nellie McClung, Louise McKinney, and Irene Parlby. These five women represent iconic powerful movements and change within Canada, as they devoted their lives to advocacy in the 1880s, through to the 1890s. [3]
50+ Influential Latina Women in History 1. Dolores Huerta. Huerta is a civil rights activist and labor leader. She worked tirelessly to ensure farmworkers received US labor rights and co-founded ...
Women may not always get the historical credit their male counterparts do, but as these women show, they were always there doing the work. With their fierce determination and refusal to back down, all of these 12 women were not just ahead of their own times, but responsible for shaping ours.
Women's History Month This page was last edited on 27 March 2024, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...
This is a list of photographs considered the most important in surveys where authoritative sources review the history of the medium not limited by time period, region, genre, topic, or other specific criteria. These images may be referred to as the most important, most iconic, or most influential—but they are all considered key images in the ...
Isabel Benham was the first female partner in R.W. Pressprich & Co.'s 55-year history, which also made her the first female partner at any Wall Street bond house. [150] [151] 1964 Alice K. Kurashige became the first Japanese-American woman commissioned in the United States Marine Corps. [152] [153] [154] 1965
Male feminist, wrote Declamatio de nobilitate et praecellentia foeminei sexus (Declamation on the Nobility and Preeminence of the Female Sex), a book pronouncing the theological and moral superiority of women [13] 1500–1599: Jane Anger: United Kingdom: fl. 1589: fl. 1589: Protofeminist writer of Jane Anger her Protection for Women [14] 1500 ...
The Five Moons were five Native American ballerinas from the U.S. state of Oklahoma who achieved international recognition during the 20th century. The five women were Myra Yvonne Chouteau , Rosella Hightower , Moscelyne Larkin , and sisters Maria Tallchief and Marjorie Tallchief . [ 1 ]