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6 kwi 2024 · Women’s Rights and Feminism. The feminist movement in the 1980s laid the groundwork for advancing women’s rights. Organizations focused on critical issues like sexual harassment in the workplace and the fight for legal access to abortion.
8 mar 2023 · In honour of International Women’s Day, here are 12 women who are making the world a safer, better place, for everyone. UK: Malala Yousafi Malala was nearly killed for her activism when she was just 15 years old.
9 gru 2011 · Once independence had been achieved by formerly colonized countries, women's rights became one of the key topics in the debate between universality of human rights and the rights of collective groups to enjoy their own cultures.
It is one of many steps the UN takes to lay a foundation for women’s rights: In 1946, the Commission on the Status of Women becomes the first global intergovernmental body exclusively dedicated to gender equality; and in 2010, UN Women becomes the first UN agency to champion exclusively for women’s rights. 1946.
Early 1980s. The Beginning of the Feminist Studies Program, 1980-1984: Signs, the Graduate Women's Network, and the new Stanford Program in Feminist Studies join the Center for Research on Women's cohort of feminist efforts located at Serra House; Michelle Rosaldo passes away; Estelle Freedman struggles for tenure; Serra House is moved across ...
More than one million women and men attended rallies in support of women’s right to vote, hold public office, access vocational training, and enter the labor force and participate without...
The Women's Library grew out of an initiative called 'Women in Profile' set up in 1990, in the wake of Glasgow's successful bid for European City of Culture, by a group of female activists and artists, including current creative development manager Adele Patrick.
