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Marilyn Loden (July 12, 1946 – August 6, 2022) was an American writer, management consultant, and diversity advocate. Loden is credited with coining the term "glass ceiling", during a 1978 speech.
Alice Stokes Paul (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an American Quaker, suffragette, suffragist, feminist, and women's rights activist, and one of the foremost leaders and strategists of the campaign for the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination in the right to vote.
The United Nations Working Group on business and human rights (WGBHR) has stated that discrimination against women has historically been rooted in patriarchal social norms and power structures. [176] Women's rights movements focus on ending discrimination against women. In this regard, the definition of discrimination itself is important.
Bronze Statue of Frankie Muse Freeman in Downtown St. Louis. Marie Frankie Muse Freeman (née Muse; November 24, 1916 – January 12, 2018) [1] was an American civil rights attorney, and the first woman to be appointed to the United States Commission on Civil Rights (1964–79), a federal fact-finding body that investigates complaints alleging discrimination.
United States: Women were not allowed in McSorley's Old Ale House's until August 10, 1970, after National Organization for Women attorneys Faith Seidenberg and Karen DeCrow filed a discrimination case against the bar in District Court and won. [295]
Viola Irene Desmond (July 6, 1914 – February 7, 1965) was a Canadian civil and women's rights activist and businesswoman of Black Nova Scotian descent. In 1946, she challenged racial segregation at a cinema in New Glasgow, Nova Scotia, by refusing to leave a whites-only area of the Roseland Theatre.
She was born in Buffalo, New York, on January 15, 1860, to Oscar Bill Davis and Frances Freeman.She was the oldest of five children—three girls and two boys. [1] [10] Katharine's mother Frances was a strong proponent of women's rights and a zealous advocate for women's suffrage.
Grant wrote a book about her world travel with only her white cane accompanying her. There were challenges to writing her book, from Braille notes being flattened from the humidity in the tropical climate where she traveled to difficulty finding a publisher. [2] Her book was not published until 2016, nearly forty years after her death. [2]