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Labor feminism was a women's movement in the United States that emerged in the 1920s, focused on gaining rights in the workplace and unions. Labor feminists advocated for protectionist legislation and special benefits for women, a variant of social feminism .
1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote. 1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced.
In 1915, the International Congress of Women in the Hague brought together representatives from women's associations in several countries, leading to the establishment of the Women's International League for Peace and Freedom. [1] This in turn led to national chapters which continued their work in the 1920s and 1930s.
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. [140] Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony formed the more radical, New York-based National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA). [140]
South Africa: The Women's Enfranchisement Act, 1930, was an act of the Parliament of South Africa which granted white women aged 21 and older the right to run for office. 1931 United States, Michigan: A 1931 law criminalized abortion in Michigan except when the mother's life was in danger.
Severine Casse (1805–1898) – women's rights activist, successful in fighting for a wife's right to dispose of her earnings; Karen Dahlerup (1920–2018), women's rights activist and politician; Ulla Dahlerup (born 1942) – writer, women's rights activist, member of the Danish Red Stocking Movement
Major issues in the 1910s and 1920s included suffrage, women's ... in 1930. French women did not ... and a symbol of the Arab women's rights movement.
Across the decades, women have been harbingers of radical political, social and economic changes as hundreds of thousands have taken to the streets, worldwide, to protest injustice and apathy.