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This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]
Rochester Women's Rights Convention of 1848, Rochester, New York; National Women's Rights Convention, 1850, Worcester, Massachusetts, first of an annual series; Ohio Women's Convention at Salem in 1850, Salem, Ohio; Worcester Women's Rights Convention of 1851, Worcester, Massachusetts, second in the series; Syracuse Women's Rights Convention of ...
The Jesuit provinces were first organized into an "assistancy" (a regional grouping of provinces), [16] called the Jesuit Conference of the United States, in 1972. [17] A new, consolidated assistancy was created in 2014, called the Jesuit Conference of Canada and the United States, under which all the provinces in the two countries are ...
Editorial: At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago, three women gave emotional speeches on Monday about the consequences of taking reproductive rights away.
The National Council of Women of the United States (NCW/US) is the oldest [1] [better source needed] nonsectarian organization of women in the United States Founded in 1888, [2] the NCW/US is an accredited non-governmental organization (NGO) with the Department of Public Information (UN/DPI) [1] and in Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations (ECOSOC).
The National Women's Rights Convention was an annual series of meetings that increased the visibility of the early women's rights movement in the United States. First held in 1850 in Worcester, Massachusetts , the National Women's Rights Convention combined both female and male leadership and attracted a wide base of support including ...
The Knights of Columbus, an influential Catholic charitable organization, announced Thursday it will cover up its mosaics made by a famous ex-Jesuit artist accused of abusing women in a sign of ...
Although the United States signed the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women in 1980, it has never been ratified. [ 61 ] Many historians view the second wave feminist era in America as ending in the early 1980s with the Feminist Sex Wars , a split within the movement over issues such as sexuality and pornography.