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International: The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952, and adopted on 31 March 1953. The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights.
Milwaukee: After the end of Prohibition in the United States in 1933, [141] Milwaukee did not grant women bartending licenses, unless the women were the daughters or wives of the bar's owner. In 1970, Dolly Williams filed a complaint with the state regarding this, and the Wisconsin Department of Industry, Labor, and Human Relations ordered the ...
After women gained the right to vote, the presence of women in Congress has gradually increased since 1920, with an especially steady increase from 1981. [citation needed] Today, women increasingly pursue politics as a career.
The National Woman's Party (NWP) was an American women's political organization formed in 1916 to fight for women's suffrage.After achieving this goal with the 1920 adoption of the Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, the NWP advocated for other issues including the Equal Rights Amendment.
The first wave of feminism petered out in the 1920s. After gaining suffrage, the political activities of women generally subsided or were absorbed in the main political parties. In the 1920s they paid special attention to such issues as world peace and child welfare. [215]
The League of Women Voters of California was first established in the 1920s, to further the movement of women voting and in politics after the 19th amendment was passed. Many were confident that women in California would get the vote and with this brought many organizations to California, the League of Women Voters being on a national level. [3]
In 1878 a woman suffrage amendment was first introduced in the United States Congress, but it did not pass. [13] [20] In 1920, the Nineteenth Amendment was ratified, giving women the right to vote; the first wave of feminism is considered to have ended with that victory. [3] Margaret Higgins Sanger, was one of the first American birth control ...
Some countries in Africa: The Protocol to the African Charter on Human and Peoples' Rights on the Rights of Women in Africa, better known as the Maputo Protocol, guarantees comprehensive rights to women including the right to take part in the political process, to social and political equality with men, to control of their reproductive health ...