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5 mar 2021 · The fight for the next three decades (1907-1931) was to allow women to marry foreign men (especially Asian men) without losing their own citizenship, which began with the Expatriation Act (also known as the Married Women’s Citizenship Act) of 1907.
The convention at Seneca Falls is traditionally seen as the beginning of the American women’s-rights movement, as well as launching Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s long career as its premier intellectual force. The enthusiasm generated at Seneca Falls quickly led to more women’s-rights conventions.
10 cze 2021 · Isaac Chotiner and the journalist Sasha Issenberg discuss the recent successes of the gay-rights movement, particularly the legalization of same-sex marriage.
27 lip 2012 · Even as campaigners have been calling for marital or quasi-marital rights for excluded groups, marriage itself has been losing its power. The marriage rate in England and Wales has declined from 81 for men and 61 for women (per 1,000 of each sex aged 16+) in 1970 to 21.4 for men and 19.3 for women in 2009 (ONS 2012).
5 lut 2018 · “Women have been the backbone of the whole civil rights movement,” activist Coretta Scott King asserted in the magazine New Lady in 1966. Here are a few of their stories.
12 wrz 2022 · Published: September 12, 2022 4:12am EDT. In 1938, a group of feminist agitators came together in London to tackle what they saw as the most pressing issue of their time: inequality in marriage....
1 gru 2019 · For a time, the Nineteenth Amendment seemed to mark the end of organized efforts to win women full citizenship until the emergence of the women's movement in the 1960s. Then a flood of studies addressed the intervening decades.
