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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.
In 2011, Saidel and Hedgepeth participated in a panel centered around their book, Sexual Violence against Jewish Women during the Holocaust. Steinem led this panel. [26] The Women Under Siege Project, an initiative of the Women's Media Center founded by Steinem and others, was inspired by Hedgepeth and Saidel's book. [27]
Janet, her husband Erland Lee, and Adelaide Hoodless [2] are considered the co-founders of the first Women's Institute, presently a worldwide organization originally formed to promote the education of isolated rural women. The group is internationally known as the Associated Country Women of the World. Janet Lee is attributed with writing the ...
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Grace Eleanor Hadow OBE (9 December 1875 in Cirencester, England – 19 January 1940, Marylebone, London) was an author, principal of what would become St Anne's College, Oxford and vice-chairman of the National Federation of Women's Institutes (NFWI).
Three years later, the institute launched an online resource handbook for Holocaust education through theater, “Women, Theater, and the Holocaust,” edited by Saidel and Karen Shulman. [5] At yearly programs for the several editions of the resource handbook, Professor Meghan Brodie’s students from Ursinus College performed the stories of ...
The Branch is the basic building block from which the Women's Institute has grown since its inception in 1897. In Ontario, Members belong to a network that connects Branches to Districts and Areas, as well as to the provincial (FWIO), national ( Federated Women’s Institutes of Canada ) and international ( Associated Country Women of the World ...
Adelaide Sophia Hoodless (née Addie Hunter; February 27, 1858 – February 26, 1910) was a Canadian educational reformer who founded the international women's organization known as the Women's Institute. She was the second president of the Hamilton, Ontario Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA), holding the position from 1890 to 1902. [2]