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Back cover of The Woman Citizen magazine from January 19, 1918 History of Woman Suffrage – six books produced from 1881 to 1922 by Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Susan B. Anthony, Matilda Joslyn Gage and Ida Husted Harper. [15] The Forerunner--United States journal created by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, supporting feminism and women's suffrage. [8]
All-women shortlists (AWS) is an affirmative action practice intended to increase the proportion of female Members of Parliament (MPs) in the United Kingdom, allowing only women to stand in particular constituencies for a particular political party. [1] Labour abandoned the shortlist for general election purposes in March 2022. [2]
The first constitutional amendment granting woman suffrage was proposed January 10, 1878, by Senator Aaron Sargent of California. Similar amendments were introduced and referred to the select committee each successive Congress until 1919, when a resolution that was to become the 19th Amendment to the Constitution passed both houses of Congress. [2]
Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2] The demand for women's suffrage began to gather ...
800 women operatives and 4,000 workmen marched during a shoemaker's strike in Lynn, Massachusetts. 1863 (United States) The first railroad labor union, The Brotherhood of the Footboard (later renamed the Brotherhood of Locomotive Engineers) is formed in Marshall, Michigan. [6] It is headed by William D. Robinson. [16] 1864 (Europe)
[72] [full citation needed] Previously, a woman lost her United States citizenship if she married a foreign man, since she assumed the citizenship of her husband, a law that did not apply to United States citizen men who married foreign women. The act repealed sections 3 and 4 of the Expatriation Act of 1907, [73] but guaranteed independent ...
The winner of the 2024 Booker Prize will be announced on Tuesday 12 November, and will be awarded £50,000 in prize money. See the full shortlist below
The 1946 Constitution and Articles L.140.2 and thereafter of the Labour Code Germany The 1949 Constitution or "Basic Law" (Article 3) Greece The 1975 Constitution (Article 22(1)), as amended in 2001, and Law 1484/1984 (Article 4) Hungary Equal pay for equal work was previously included in the constitution, [18] but it has changed; there is now ...