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After two exact but conventional [citation needed] books (on the dandy and on Theodore Dreiser), Moers was caught up by Second-wave feminism, which she credits with "pulling me out of the stacks" [1] and leading her to write Literary Women. In the latter she established the existence of a strong nineteenth-century tradition of (international ...
The following is a list of women who have been elected or appointed head of state or government of their respective countries since the interwar period (1918–1939). The first list includes female presidents who are heads of state and may also be heads of government, as well as female heads of government who are not concurrently head of state, such as prime ministers.
Female dandies did overlap with male dandies for a brief period during the early 19th century when dandy had a derisive definition of "fop" or "over-the-top fellow"; the female equivalents were dandyess or dandizette. [34] Charles Dickens, in All the Year Around (1869) comments, "The dandies and dandizettes of 1819–20 must have been a strange ...
Thompson’s testimony in 1866 came at a critical time, as the nation weighed whether to expand equal constitutional protections to newly freed Black Americans. But it also came at a great ...
Legislative agendas, some pushed by female political figures, may focus on several key issues to address ongoing gender disparities: Reducing domestic and gender-based violence. The Convention on the Rights of the Child, published by the United Nations in 1989, addressed home violence and its effects on children.
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Top women leaders tend to create more female-friendly cultures and supportive human resource policies, and can serve as positive role models for aspiring women leaders. [2] Women’s mentoring, networking, and coaching of other women leaders, as well as women’s professional organizations, also supports women’s entry to leadership. [ 2 ]
INTERNATIONAL WOMEN’S DAY 2023: If I’m being honest, being a woman in politics in 2023 isn’t quite what I thought it would be, writes Labour MP Tulip Siddiq