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The Women's Liberation Movement in the UK was spurred on by events within the nation, and globally, which forced women to think in different ways about their political lives. In 1968, women machinest organised the Dagenham Ford Plant strike over pay inequality, while women in Hull organised action over local fishermen's safety. These events led ...
Members of KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz at the European Court of Human Rights in April 2023. KlimaSeniorinnen Schweiz (Senior Women for Climate Protection) is a group of elderly women in Switzerland, initially formed by a group of 40 in 2016, and having grown to a membership of more than 2,500 as of April 2024.
The book was first published in the United States in 1983 by Rutgers University Press. [3] It was published in the United Kingdom by Pluto Press. [4] In 2013, the work was republished by Brill Publishers, with a new introduction by the political scientist David McNally and Susan Ferguson, and as part of the Historical Materialism Book Series.
Second-wave feminism began in the 1940s as a reevaluation of women's role in society, reconciling the inferior treatment of women in society despite their ostensibly equal political status to men. Pioneered by theorists such as Simone de Beauvoir , second wave feminism was an important current within the social turmoil leading up to and ...
Prime minister accused of putting issue ‘on the back burner’ despite horrific levels of abuse
Among other things, quotas for women were introduced in Article 16 of the new constitution, which guaranteed equal representation of women in politics. [344] Europe: the Council of Europe Convention on preventing and combating violence against women and domestic violence (Istanbul Convention), the first legally binding instrument in Europe in ...
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As Japan embarks on a major military build-up, it's struggling to fill its ranks with the women that its forces need and its policymakers have pledged to recruit. Following a wave of sexual ...