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Betty Friedan (/ ˈ f r iː d ən, f r iː ˈ d æ n, f r ɪ-/; [1] February 4, 1921 – February 4, 2006) was an American feminist writer and activist. A leading figure in the women's movement in the United States, her 1963 book The Feminine Mystique is often credited with sparking the second wave of American feminism in the 20th century.
Ruth Fenner Braddock died on Aug. 24 at age 100. Born Dec. 2, 1923 in Binghamton, New York, she was a World War II veteran, educator and women’s activist. After the war she and her then husband ...
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote. Paul initiated, and along with Lucy Burns ...
Helen Pankhurst (great-granddaughter) Alula Pankhurst (great-grandson) Emmeline Pankhurst (née Goulden; 15 July 1858 – 14 June 1928) was a British political activist [1] who organised the British suffragette movement and helped women to win in 1918 the right to vote in Great Britain and Ireland. In 1999, Time named her as one of the 100 Most ...
The feminist movement, also known as the women's movement, refers to a series of social movements and political campaigns for radical and liberal reforms on women's issues created by inequality between men and women. [1] Such issues are women's liberation, reproductive rights, domestic violence, maternity leave, equal pay, women's suffrage ...
Website. www.gloriasteinem.com. Signature. Gloria Marie Steinem (/ ˈstaɪnəm / STY-nəm; born March 25, 1934) is an American journalist and social-political activist who emerged as a nationally recognized leader of second-wave feminism in the United States in the late 1960s and early 1970s. [ 1 ][ 4 ][ 2 ] Steinem was a columnist for New York ...
By the time of the National Women's Rights Conventions in the 1850s, the situation had changed, and women's suffrage had become a preeminent goal of the movement. [1] Three leaders of the women's movement during this period, Lucy Stone, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, and Susan B. Anthony, played prominent roles in the creation of the NAWSA many years ...
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA) was formed on May 15, 1869, to work for women's suffrage in the United States. Its main leaders were Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton. It was created after the women's rights movement split over the proposed Fifteenth Amendment to the U. S. Constitution, which would in effect extend ...