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Lesley Abdela (born 1945) – women's rights campaigner, gender consultant, journalist who has worked for women's representation in over 40 countries including post-conflict countries: Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq, Afghanistan, Nepal, and Aceh. In 1980 she founded the all-Party 300 Group to campaign to get more women into local, national, and ...
California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852
Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...
Zheni Bozhilova-Pateva (1878–1955) – teacher, writer, and one of the most active women's rights activists of her era; Dimitrana Ivanova (1881–1960) – reform pedagogue, women's rights activist; Ekaterina Karavelova (1860–1947) – educator, translator, publicist, suffragist; Anna Karima (1871–1949) – suffragist and women's rights ...
Women involved participated in sit-ins and other political movements such as the Montgomery Bus Boycott (1955). Organizations and other political demonstrations sparked change for the likes of equity and equality, women's suffrage, anti-lynching laws, Jim Crow Laws and more.
Several women involved in the grassroots campaign in more conservative areas told NBC News that getting involved in the sticky notes campaign was a way for them to be politically active without ...
Sarah Grimké's pamphlet, The Equality of the Sexes and the Condition of Women, has been called "the first serious discussion of woman's rights by an American woman." [ 6 ] The sisters grew up in a slave-owning family in South Carolina , and became part of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 's substantial Quaker society in their twenties.
Women’s rights are also restricted, as Article 56 of the Federal Personal Status Law obliges a woman to maintain the home, and Article 71 states that a woman can lose her right to spousal ...