On July 21, 1802, Isaiah Thomas published in his Massachusetts Spy that Deborah Sampson, referred to as Mrs. Gannett, was ...

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LEAH: Ok, here are some important events in our history. In 1929 ... First World War was a turning point in the campaign for women’s rights. Many men were away fighting and women played a ...

“For ALL women and girls: Rights. Equality. Empowerment.” This year’s theme calls for action that can unlock equal rights, power and opportunities for all and a feminist future where no one ...

As a creative task, they could be encouraged to create a poster that they might have made had they been supporting (or challenging) women's rights at a certain period in history - for example ...

A Brief History of Women's Rights In Afghanistan Think of women in Afghanistan now, and you'll probably recall pictures in the media of women being forced to wear full-body burqas, perhaps the famous ...

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Her marriage finally came to an end 13 years later with three children. In the 1840s Clarina became a reporter and wrote articles on women's rights, abolition and temperance. In 1843 she was able to ...

After years of languishing in the bottom ten, Saudi Arabia has been inching up the ranks of the World Economic Forum's Global Gender Index, now coming 126th out of 146 countries in the 2024 report.

Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, Vol. 87, No. 4, SPECIAL ISSUE: WOMEN'S AND GENDER HISTORY IN PENNSYLVANIA, PART 2 (Autumn 2020), pp. 587-590 (4 pages) This is the second of ...

More than 50 men and women of all ages gathered Saturday ... a collective voice in hope for a better future and for “the rights, safety and justice of us all.” Saturday’s event also ...