Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In 1983, Women Rising in Resistance protested outside the White House as part of a group of over 120 feminists calling for women's rights. The group was protesting the Reagan administration's position on women's rights. [3] The protest was staged on the day marking the 63rd anniversary of the 19th Amendment and women carried banners saying ...
Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...
Maria W. Stewart. Maria W. Stewart ( née Miller) (1803 – December 17, 1879) was an American teacher, journalist, abolitionist and lecturer known for her role in the anti-slavery and women's rights movements in the United States. The first known American woman to speak to a mixed audience of men and women, white and black, she was also the ...
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 ...
June 26, 2024 at 9:43 PM. UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The U.N. political chief who will chair the first meeting between Afghanistan’s Taliban rulers and envoys from about 25 countries answered sharp ...
In 1869, the women's rights movement split into two factions as a result of disagreements over the Fourteenth and soon-to-be-passed Fifteenth Amendments, with the two factions not reuniting until 1890. Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA).
The disability rights movement is a global [1] [2] [3] social movement that seeks to secure equal opportunities and equal rights for all people with disabilities . It is made up of organizations of disability activists, also known as disability advocates, around the world working together with similar goals and demands, such as: accessibility ...
Women creating wealth : transforming economic development : selected papers and speeches from the Association for Women in Development Conference, April 25-27, 1985, Washington, D.C. Proceedings of Association for Women's Rights in Development; Women and social movements, international. Washington, DC: Association for Women's Rights in Development.