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[8] Accordingly, the California Governor and First Lady's Conference on Women was dissolved, and in 2011 there was no California Women's Conference. It was planned for the city of Long Beach to host the 2012 conference on September 23 and 24, 2012, at the Long Beach Convention Center, under the name California Women's Conference, with the theme ...
Mariana Atencio (born April 2, 1984) is an American journalist, television host, author and speaker who was formerly a correspondent for NBC News. Atencio is a native of Venezuela and holds a master's degree from the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In 2020, Atencio cofounded GoLike, a multimedia production company. [1]
The late State Senator Ken Maddy founded the Central California Women’s Conference in 1988. This conference was designed with the plans to educate, motivate and inspire women so they can excel in their professional and personal lives. Topics for the conference address issues relevant to women and are led by national, regional and local experts.
World Conference on Women, 1975, Mexico City, first of a series held by the United Nations; Women's Ordination Conference, 1975, Detroit, Michigan, advocating ordination of women in the Roman Catholic Church; 1977 National Women's Conference, held in Houston, Texas, with 2,000 delegates and over 15,000 observers; 1977 Women's National ...
Women in the California gold rush; Women in the early East L. A. punk scene; Women's Athletic Club of Alameda County; Women's Center for Creative Work; The Women's Conference; Women's Home Missionary Society; Women's Improvement Club of Hueneme; Women's Missionary Society of the Pacific Coast; Women's Museum of California; Women's WIRE; The ...
On 10 February, when the women's conference opened, Thomson and Louise Compain, [29] a writer and member of the French Union for Women's Suffrage, [30] began serving as editors and translators to the women's conference secretary, Suzanne Grinberg, [29] a lawyer, vice-president of the Association du Jeune Barreau in Paris, and secretary of the ...
Annette Abbott Adams (1912): [29] [30] [31] First female to serve as an appellate court judge in California (upon her appointment as a Presiding Justice of the Court of Appeal of the Third Appellate District in 1942) Mildred Lillie (1938): [32] First female to serve as Associate Justice of any California appellate court (Second District-1958 ...
After proposition 4 was passed in 1911, many California suffragists remained active in the fight for women's suffrage at the national level including Mary Austin and Maud Younger. [31] In 1912 California suffragist Alice Park took over NAWSA 's congressional committee charged with working towards the passage of a federal amendment granting ...