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Women's associations fall under wide and diverse set of categories, yet they all have a unified goal - helping women. It would be almost impossible to track history of the earliest women's association, but an endeavor can be made to list the most noteworthy organizations with a mission to help women in various sectors of their lives.
Association for the Advancement of Women; Association for Women in Architecture + Design; Association for Women in Communications; Association for Women Journalists; Association of Black Women Historians; Association of Deans of Women and Advisers to Girls in Negro Schools; Association of Southern Women for the Prevention of Lynching; Atlanta ...
Kvindelig Fremskridtsforening (Women's Progress Association) (1885–1893), focus on women's voting rights; Kvindelige Kunstneres Samfund (Society of Female Artists), founded 1916; Kvindelig Læseforening (Women Readers' Association), 1872–1945; Kvinderådet (The Women's Council in Denmark), Danish arm of the International Council of Women
Association for Computing Machinery Committee on Women; Association for Women in Computing; BCSWomen, a specialist group of the British Computer Society; Black Girls Code; BlogHer; Center for Women in Technology; Committee on Widening Participation in Computing Research (CRA-WP) DC Web Women; Django Girls; Girl Geek Dinners; Girls Who Code ...
The National Women's Studies Association (NWSA) is an organization founded in 1977, made up of scholars and practitioners in the field of women's studies also known as women's and gender studies, feminist studies, and related names in the 21st century.
The American Association of University Women (AAUW), officially founded in 1881, [1] is a non-profit organization that advances equity for women and girls through advocacy, education, and research. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] The organization has a nationwide network of 170,000 members and supporters, [ 3 ] 1,000 local branches, [ 3 ] and 800 college and ...
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 ...
The National Association of Women Artists, Inc. (NAWA) is a United States organization, founded in 1889 to gain recognition for professional women fine artists in an era when that field was strongly male-oriented. It sponsors exhibitions, awards and prizes, and organizes lectures and special events.