As Ella Baker noted, women were the "backbone of the civil rights movement," yet their contributions were often overlooked or ...

Meanwhile, the women’s rights movement changed dramatically as ... and the most contentious phase of its century-long history could still lie ahead. Editor's Note: This article was originally ...

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

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 ...

Equality of rights for women is a basic principle of the United Nations. The Preamble to the Charter of the United Nations sets as one of the Organization's central goals the reaffirmation of ...

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 ...

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 ...

The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) already exists…right? You may think that, surely, gender equality across the board in ...

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 ...

It is impossible to separate women’s football from its history of protest ... In the U.S, as LGBTQ+ rights became part of mainstream public discourse from 2010 due to ongoing political ...

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 ...