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She then co-founded the National Women's Political Caucus, was the first Black woman to serve on the House Rules Committee, and spent her life championing equality, pacifism, and ending poverty ...
In honor of Women's Equality Day we celebrate a few of the many women who made their impact throughout history.
Influential in winning voting rights for women in 1893 (the first country and national election in which women were allowed to vote) [17] 1800–1874: Tarabai Shinde: India: 1850: 1910: 1800–1874: Emily Anne Eliza Shirreff: United Kingdom: 1814: 1897: Early pioneer feminist [35] 1800–1874: Eleanor Mildred Sidgwick: United Kingdom: 1845: ...
Joan Wagnon was born Oct. 17, 1940, in Arkansas. Among the titles she held during her career were Kansas state representative (1983-1994 for District 55), Topeka's first female mayor (1997-2001 ...
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Inherent in the study of women's history is the belief that more traditional recordings of history have minimised or ignored the contributions of women to different fields and the effect that historical events had on women as a whole; in this respect, women's history is often a form of historical revisionism, seeking to challenge or expand the ...
Rosa Parks. Susan B. Anthony. Helen Keller. These are a few of the women whose names spark instant recognition of their contributions to American history. But what about the many, many more women who never made it into most . high school history books?
Francisca de Haan (fl. 1998-) – Central, Eastern and South Eastern European Women's and Gender History; Johanna Naber (1859–1941) – influential women and the women's movement; Marysa Navarro (born 1934) – feminism; Kaari Utrio – women and children; Retha Warnicke (born 1939) – gender issues