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The Women's Institute (WI) is a community-based organization for women in the United Kingdom, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.The movement was founded in Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, by Erland and Janet Lee with Adelaide Hoodless being the first speaker in 1897.
The National Centre for Social Research is a registered charity trading as NatCen Social Research and is the largest independent social research institute in the UK. [30] [31] [32] The research charity was founded in 1969 by Sir Roger Jowell [33] and Gerald Hoinville with the aim of carrying out rigorous social policy research to improve society.
ISPI Istituto per gli Studi di Politica Internazionale (Italian Institute for International Political Studies), Milan, Italy; Institute of World Politics (Washington, D.C.) International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), UK; The Australian Institute of International Affairs (Deakin, ACT, Australia)
International Women's Forum – founded 1974; International Women's Health Coalition – founded 1984, based in New York to advocate for issues pertaining to women's health, this foundation also helps bring to light severe issues such as the stigmatization of women's health; International Women's Suffrage Alliance – major suffrage organization
Participants at the NWSA Conference 2016. Women's studies is an academic field that draws on feminist and interdisciplinary methods to place women's lives and experiences at the center of study, while examining social and cultural constructs of gender; systems of privilege and oppression; and the relationships between power and gender as they intersect with other identities and social ...
Lord Hague said transgender people are ‘part of our society now’ and the Women’s Institute should ‘welcome new people’
Some of these began as courses on the movement and then became the foundation of university classes of women's studies. Activists in Norwich gave talks to church groups, members of the Housewives Register and at Women's Institutes, but in the conservative climate were less bold than activists in other areas. Brighton's liberationists ran a ...
From April 2009 to December 2012, if you bought shares in companies when William S. Thompson, Jr. joined the board, and sold them when he left, you would have a 22.1 percent return on your investment, compared to a 67.8 percent return from the S&P 500.