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  2. Women's history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  3. Category:Women in history - Wikipedia

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    Women's History Month This page was last edited on 27 March 2024, at 21:47 (UTC). Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License ...

  4. Women in World History - Wikipedia

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    Women in World History: A Biographical Encyclopedia is a 16-volume reference work of biographies of notable women. It includes biographies of around 10,000 women, and also includes genealogical charts of noble families and some joint entries about multiple women (such as "Astronauts: Women in Space").

  5. History of women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Taking care of Family Needs-Throughout American history, women have done unpaid domestic work. They have cleaned their homes, cared for children, cooked. They have done this in addition to their paid work, which has included taking in boarders, doing piecework at home, and leaving the home to work for wages. [9]

  6. List of feminists - Wikipedia

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    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: ...

  7. List of female monarchs - Wikipedia

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    The following is an incomplete list of women monarchs who are well known from popular writings, although many ancient and poorly documented ruling monarchs (such as those from Africa and Oceania) are omitted. Section 1 lists monarchs who ruled in their own right, such as queens regnant. Section 2 lists legendary monarchs.

  8. List of women's firsts - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of women's firsts noting the first time that a woman or women achieved a given historical feat. A shorthand phrase for this development is "breaking the gender barrier" or "breaking the glass ceiling ."

  9. List of women historians by area of study - Wikipedia

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    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