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Women's Institute building in Llanfairpwll, Wales.Dating from 1915, this is the oldest WI in Britain. The WI movement began at Stoney Creek, Ontario, Canada, in 1897 when Adelaide Hoodless addressed a meeting for the wives of members of the Farmers' Institute.
The committee met at the Woman's Institute and opened as a means of relief an Employment Bureau, upon whose roll hundreds of women were registered; about half of whom were assisted to some kind of work. Woman's Exchange was established in 1892, and continued until 1899. The lunch room was opened in 1894 and was self-supporting.
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 ...
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 ...
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The Women's Institute for Science, Equity, and Race (WISER) is a non-profit, nonpartisan, 501(c)(3) research institute that centers Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American and multiracial women in women-focused policy research. [1]
The Lee Homestead, also known as "Edgemont," is currently the site of the Erland Lee Museum. Erland Lee was the co-founder of the first Women's Institute in the world, along with Janet (Chisholm) Lee, his wife, and Adelaide Hoodless, an advocate of domestic science and women's education. [2]
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