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The National Organization for Women ( NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501 (c) (4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. [5] It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. [6]
Arab Feminist Union – founded 1945. Associated Country Women of the World – international organization formed in 1933. The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901. Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931. Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas ...
Ayn Rand Institute, a think tank that supports a woman's right to choose abortion. Center for Reproductive Rights, a global legal advocacy organization that seeks to advance reproductive rights. Guttmacher Institute, a research organization on sexual and reproductive health and rights.
Matilde Bajer (1840–1934) – women's rights activist and pacifist. Annestine Beyer (1795–1884) – pioneer of women's education. Anne Bruun (1853–1934) – schoolteacher and women's rights activist. Esther Carstensen (1873–1955) – women right's activist, journal editor, active in the Danish Women's Society.
The Women's Christian Temperance Union (WCTU) was established in 1873 and championed women's rights, including advocating for prostitutes and for women's suffrage. Under the leadership of Frances Willard, "the WCTU became the largest women's organization of its day and is now the oldest continuing women's organization in the United States."
Feminism. Women's suffrage, or the right of women to vote, was established in the United States over the course of the late 19th and early 20th centuries, first in various states and localities, then nationally in 1920 with the ratification of the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution. [2] The demand for women's suffrage began to ...
The women's liberation movement ( WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism ...
African Americans. African American women played a variety of important roles in the 1954-1968 civil rights movement. They served as leaders, demonstrators, organizers, fundraisers, theorists, formed abolition and self-help societies. [1] They also created and published newspapers, poems, and stories about how they are treated and it paved the ...
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