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OWL - The Voice of Women 40+ was founded as the Older Women's League by Tish Sommers and Laurie Shields, following the White House Mini-Conference on Older Women in Des Moines, Iowa in October 1980. The conference, called "Growing Numbers, Growing Force," addressed three main concerns: ensuring adequate income, health concerns of older women ...
Royal Neighbors of America - originally the auxiliary of the Modern Woodmen of America, before it became its own group. [47] Woodmen Circle - a former auxiliary of the Woodmen of the World, this group merged with Woodmen of the World Life Insurance Society in 1965. [48] Woodman Rangers and Rangerettes - founded in 1903, open to boys and girls ...
Sweet Adelines International – founded 1945 for women's barbershop harmony singers; The RINJ Foundation – civil society women's group focused on safety of women & children particularly from sexual exploitation & violence (founded 2012) TimesUp – organization all around the world (famous ambassadors: Emma Watson, Meryl Streep)
As of 2022, the pageants are broken down to six categories; Ms. Senior United States is a contest open to women aged For ages 50–59, [3] Ms. Senior USA open to women ages 60–74, [4] Ms. Super Senior USA open to women ages 75–89, and Grande Dame Universe for women aged 90+.
Members of the Order of the Eastern Star are aged 18 and older; men must be Master Masons and women used to need to have specific relationships with Masons, however this was changed at General Grand Chapter in 2024. [citation needed] Originally, a woman would have to be the daughter, widow, wife, sister, or mother of a Master Mason.
Women's clubs in the United States were indexed by the GFWC, and also by Helen M. Winslow who published an annual "register and directory" of the GFWC ones and some more, which was in its 24th annual edition in 1922. [8] The GWFC did not admit clubs for African-American women, and Winslow's directory seems to omit them too.
Women in Medieval and Renaissance Europe were legally assumed to be subject to their fathers, then to their husbands after marriage. The status of women within Medieval trades was largely dependent on the local interpretation of femme sole, the legal term for a single woman. This was usually the widow of a tradesman, who was permitted to ...
The poem begins: “When I am an old woman, I shall wear purple, with a red hat which doesn't go and doesn't suit me.” Cooper wanted to encourage her friend to grow older in a playful manner. [ 3 ] Cooper repeated the gift to several other friends upon request, and eventually several of the women bought purple outfits and held a tea party on ...