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Pages in category "Women's organizations based in the United States" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 435 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Women's Institutes (WI), 6,500 local organisations, founded 1915; Women's Labour League, founded 1906, promoting political representation; Women's Liberal Federation, Liberal Party; Women's Local Government Society, founded 1888; Women's Social and Political Union (1903–1917), a major suffrage organization in the United Kingdom
Please observe that this list is meant to contain only the first woman to hold of a political office, and not all the female holders of that office. The first female governor in North America and the Americas overall was Beatriz de la Cueva—appointed in 1541, when Central America was part of Spain.
Women and men continue to work in different occupations. Female-headed families have the lowest family earnings among all family types. In families where both husband and wife are employed, employed wives spend more time in household activities than do employed husbands. Women are more likely than men to do volunteer work.
In an effort to increase women's participation in politics in India, a 1993 constitutional amendment mandated a randomly selected third of leadership positions at every level of local government to be reserved for women. [168] These political reservation quotas randomly choose one third of cities to implement a women-only election. [169]
Women's health hubs are currently being rolled out in England as part of a strategy launched in 2022.
Loretta Thompson-Glickman, first African-American woman mayor of Pasadena, California also first African-American woman mayor of a city over 100,000 people [60] 1982. Mary Lou Howard, first woman mayor of Burbank, California. 1983. Anne B. Diament, elected first woman mayor of Alameda, California [61] Jana Wilson, first woman mayor of Oroville ...
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