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A fraternity is usually understood to mean a social organization composed only of men, and a sorority is composed of women. However, many women's organizations and co-ed organizations also refer to themselves as women's fraternities. This list of North American collegiate sororities and women's fraternities is not exhaustive.
As of the 2010s, sorority members and outside observers noticed a shift in sorority culture; though sororities began as feminist organizations, emphasis during the mid-1900s on social reputations and exclusionary recruitment policies (such as a refusal to recruit Jewish and African-American women) led to a reputation for following cultural ...
Psi Iota Xi is a women's philanthropic and cultural sorority with chapters throughout the midwestern United States. The sorority was formed in 1897 at Central High School in Muncie, Indiania. It was originally a high school sorority but changed to become a community-based sorority after Indiana state laws prohibited Greek letter societies in ...
Sorority January 15, 1908 Howard University: Chicago, Illinois: 1,074 [8] 360,000 [8] 1930 First intercollegiate African American sorority. First NPHC sorority to be nationally incorporated. Kappa Alpha Psi: ΚΑΨ: Fraternity January 5, 1911 Indiana University Bloomington: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 649
Delta Sigma Theta (ΔΣΘ), an international historically Black sorority, was founded on January 13, 1913, at Howard University.It has more than 1,000 collegiate and alumnae chapters located in the United States, Canada, England, Japan (Tokyo and Okinawa), Germany, the Virgin Islands, Liberia, Bermuda, Jamaica, The Bahamas, South Korea and Nigeria.
Delta Sigma Theta is an international organization of college-educated women. Delta Sigma Theta held its first national convention in 1919 in Washington, D.C. The national body of Delta Sigma Theta previously met annually, but due to several factors, the main of which is the establishment of regions and regional leadership, the National body currently meets at wikt:biennial conventions, and ...
Members of Congress, all of whom are Alpha Kappa Alpha sisters, among them then-Senator Kamala Harris, the first female Vice President of the United States. This list of Alpha Kappa Alpha sorors (commonly referred to as AKAs [1]) includes initiated and honorary members of Alpha Kappa Alpha (ΑΚΑ), the first inter-collegiate Greek-letter sorority established for Black college women.
On October 31, 2005, Kappa Alpha Lambda held its first national initiation. It established the New York City Professional Colony, chartered on March 1, 2009. The Los Angeles Professional Colony was established the following summer and was also charted on March 1, 2009. The sorority's national headquarters is located in Powder Springs, Georgia. [3]