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This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]
Davies compiled Maternity: Letters from Working Women (1915), a book based on letters from Guild members about their experiences of pregnancy, childbirth and raising children. She was the editor of Life as we have Known it (1931), a collection of Guild members' reflections, which included an introduction by her friend Virginia Woolf. Davies was ...
Congress of Allied Women on War Service, international congress held Paris in August 1918 Inter-Allied Women's Conference , February–April 1919, parallel conference to the Paris Peace Conference 1919 International Congress of Working Women , Washington, D.C., 28 delegates from 11 countries
The International Women's Writing Guild (IWWG) was founded in 1976 by Hannelore Hahn. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is a 501(c)(3) non-profit writing organization whose mission is to "empower women writers personally and professionally through writing."
The International Council of Women (ICW) is a women's organization working across national boundaries for the common cause of advocating human rights for women. In March and April 1888, women leaders came together in Washington D.C. , with 80 speakers and 49 delegates representing 53 women's organizations from 9 countries: Canada , the United ...
The Co-operative Women's Guild, founded in 1883, was an auxiliary organisation of the co-operative movement in the United Kingdom that promoted women in co-operative structures and provided social and other services to its members. It was known for the eugenics advocacy of its members.
The Convention followed the path of the Inter-American Convention on the Granting Political Rights to Women and was the first international legislation at the regional level protecting the equal status of women to exercise political rights. The Convention was the first treaty in the context of the United Nations. [11]
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