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Gender-based dress codes are dress codes that establish separate standards of clothing and grooming for men and women. These dress codes may also contain specifications related to the wearing of cosmetics and heels and the styling of hair. Gender-based dress codes are commonly enforced in workplaces and educational institutions.
MiRA Resource Centre for Black, Immigrant and Refugee Women, established 1989; National Association for Women's Suffrage (Norway) Norwegian Association for Women's Rights; Norwegian Conservative Party's Women's Association, founded 1925; Norwegian Labour Party's Women's Federation, 1901–2005; Norwegian National Women's Council, founded 1904
On February 14, 1814, the Society for the Relief of Indigent Respectable Females, as it was first known, was established in New York City. The Society raised private donations, and gave clothing, small stoves, and food to elderly impoverished women "to relieve and comfort those aged females, who once enjoyed a good degree of affluence, but now reduced to poverty by the vicissitudes of Providence."
In 1909, the Cosmos Club formed as a club for governesses, leasing space in the Gibson Building on East 33rd Street. [2] The following year, the club became the Women's Cosmopolitan Club, "organized," according to The New York Times, "for the benefit of New York women interested in the arts, sciences, education, literature, and philanthropy or in sympathy with those interested."
Ana Oliveira & the New York Women's Foundation. Address: 434 West 33rd Street; The New York Women's Foundation was established in 1987 as a voice for women and a force for change. The Foundation's vision combines hands-on philanthropy with community-driven projects addressing the needs of low-income women and girls.
In 2011, Ana Oliveira was president of the New York Women’s Foundation. [11] [12] In February 2013 it received a grant of $750,000 from Walmart. [13] In April 2013, it released a report that found that women in New York are 30% more likely to die in childbirth than they were 12 years prior. [14]
All members enjoy full use of the clubhouse facilities and its services. The Club includes a bar, The Big Red Tap & Grill, and a restaurant, The Cayuga Room. In addition, the club has four banquet/meeting rooms, a business center, 48 overnight guest rooms, and a library. Members may use the squash courts at the Yale Club of New York City.
Association for the Advancement of Women (A.A.W.) was an American women's organization founded in 1873.. The organization was the outcome of a call issued by Sorosis in May 1868, for a Congress of Women to be held in New York City that autumn, and the object of the Association, as adopted by the first Congress, was "to receive and present practical methods for securing to women higher ...