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Gender-based dress codes are dress codes that establish separate standards of clothing and grooming for men and women. These dress codes may also contain specifications related to the wearing of cosmetics and heels and the styling of hair. Gender-based dress codes are commonly enforced in workplaces and educational institutions.
In 1909, the Cosmos Club formed as a club for governesses, leasing space in the Gibson Building on East 33rd Street. [2] The following year, the club became the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to The New York Times, "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested."
The Colony Club is a women-only private social club in New York City.Founded in 1903 by Florence Jaffray Harriman, wife of J. Borden Harriman, as the first social club established in New York City by and for women, it was modeled on similar gentlemen's clubs.
YWCA USA was founded as the Young Women's Christian Association in New York City in 1858. In 1905, the Harlem YWCA hired the first Black woman general secretary of a local YWCA branch, Eva del Vakia Bowles. Bowles joined the national association as the head of "colored programs" in 1913 and remained in that capacity until 1932. [2]
The organization was founded in 1997 [1] by Nancy Lublin, and has since spread from Harlem, New York City, to almost 145 cities in the United States and twenty other countries. [2] The organization reached about 45,000 clients each year in 2006, [3] and, as of 2023, has helped over 1.3 million women. [4]
Ana Oliveira & the New York Women's Foundation. Address: 434 West 33rd Street; The New York Women's Foundation was established in 1987 as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation's vision combines hands-on philanthropy with community-driven projects addressing the needs of low-income women and girls.
A table d'hôte menu from the dinner for Walter Damrosch at the Lotos Club, 1893. The Lotos Club is a private social club in New York City.Founded primarily by a young group of writers and critics in 1870 as a gentlemen's club, it has since begun accepting women as members.
National Coalition of 100 Black Women; New York City Federation of Women's Clubs; New York Feminist Art Institute; New York Radical Feminists; New York Radical Women; New York School of Applied Design for Women; New York shirtwaist strike of 1909; New York Women's Bar Association; New York Women's House of Detention; NewYork-Presbyterian Lower ...