Exterior House Painting and The Men and Women Who Make It Happen

Woman ... A very common Indo-European root for woman, *gwen-, is the source of English queen (Old English cwēn primarily meant woman, highborn or not; this is still the case in Danish, with the modern spelling kvinde, as well as in Swedish kvinna), as well as gynaecology (from Greek γυνή gynē), banshee fairy woman (from Irish bean woman, sí fairy) and zenana (from Persian زن zan). The Latin fēmina, whence female, is likely from the root in fellāre (to suck), referring to breastfeeding...

Feminist Theory ... The first wave refers to the movement of the 19th through early 20th centuries, which dealt mainly with suffrage, working conditions and educational rights for women and girls... The second wave (1960s-1980s) dealt with the inequality of laws, as well as cultural inequalities and the role of women in society...

Voting Rights In The United States ... When the country was founded, in most states, only white men with property were permitted to vote (freed African Americans could vote in four states). White working men, almost all women, and all other people of color were denied the franchise...

Timeline Of First Women's Suffrage In Majority-Muslim Countries ... 1956 - Comoros, Egypt, Mali, Mauritania, Somalia 1957 - Malaysia 1959 - Tunisia 1960 - Gambia 1961 - Sierra Leone 1962 - Algeria 1963 - Iran, Morocco 1964 - Libya, Sudan 1965 - Afghanistan 1970 - Yemen 1972 - Bangladesh 1974 - Jordan 1978 - Nigeria 1993-1994 - Kazakhstan 1999 - Qatar 2002 - Bahrain 2003 - Oman 2005 - Kuwait 2006 - United Arab Emirates 2011 - Saudi Arabia Brunei has no suffrage for men or women...

British Propaganda During World War II ... The Ministry both advised the producers on the suitability of subjects which they had suggested, and proposed subjects which we thought would do good overseas. Whenever the Ministry had approved a subject we gave every help to the producer in obtaining facilities to make the film...

American Propaganda During World War II ... On May 3, 2005, MP Waleed Al-Tabtabaie helped create a constitutional roadblock that effectively killed a measure that would have allowed women to participate in city council elections for the first time... The new law which would give Kuwaiti women the right to vote was initially by the National Assembly on April 19, but in accordance with the Kuwaiti constitution it faced a second vote for ratification on May 2... Because the elections were called under the existing law, women were barred from participating in the imminent municipal elections even if the measure ultimately passed...

Feminism ... The outbreak of the First World War led to a halting of much of the campaigning, with lobbying taking place discreetly, and in 1918 the Representation of the People Act 1918 was passed, enfranchising women over the age of 30 who met minimum property qualifications... The Representation of the People Act 1928 extended the voting franchise to all women over the age of 21... Women had the franchise in local government, school boards (see London School Board), and health authorities from the late nineteenth century...

Japanese Propaganda During World War II ... During the first world war, the movement came to a halt, as more critical problems came to the forefront. Among others, the women's alliances carried out the collective welfare work during the war, since Switzerland at this time still had no social insurance...

Propaganda In The Soviet Union ... In the United States she places the turning point in the decades before and after women obtained the vote in 1920 (1910–1930)... For women it is not a question of asserting themselves as women, but of becoming full-scale human beings." "One is not born, but rather becomes, a woman", or as Toril Moi puts it "a woman defines herself through the way she lives her embodied situation in the world, or in other words, through the way in which she makes something of what the world makes of her"...

Women's Suffrage In The United States ... Gender roles According to Sandra Bem, androgynous men and women are more flexible and more mentally healthy than either masculine or feminine individuals; undifferentiated individuals are less competent...

Voting Age ... The vast majority of countries in the world have established a voting age. Most governments consider that those of any age lower than the chosen threshold lack the necessary capacity to independently decide how to cast a vote...

Women's Suffrage In Australia ... Propertied women in the colony of South Australia were granted the vote in local elections (but not parliamentary elections) in 1861...

Women's Suffrage In Switzerland ... Feminist activists campaign for women's rights – such as in contract law, property, and voting – while also promoting bodily integrity, autonomy and reproductive rights for women... Feminist campaigns have changed societies, particularly in the West, by achieving women's suffrage, gender neutrality in English, equal pay for women, reproductive rights for women (including access to contraceptives and abortion), and the right to enter into contracts and own property... Feminists have worked to protect women and girls from domestic violence, sexual harassment, and sexual assault...

Timeline Of Women's Suffrage ... New Zealand in 1893 is often said to be the first "country" in the world to give women the right to vote... A contestant for being the first independent nation to grant women the right to vote would be Sweden, where conditional woman suffrage was granted during the age of liberty between 1718 and 1771, when taxpaying women listed in their guilds as professionals were allowed to vote...

Nazi Propaganda ... They widely believed that any unfavorable opinion of them was owing to superior enemy propaganda; even after the Rape of Nanking, they believed that only superior Chinese propaganda explained why the world turned on them. Media Films The Film Law of 1939 decreed a "healthy development of the industry" which abolished sexually frivolous films and social issues...

History Of Feminism ... In the 21st century, Krista Scott-Dixon and Julia Serano have contributed work in the field of transgender women...

Androgyny ... The pervasive use of propaganda by the Nazis is largely responsible for the word "propaganda" itself acquiring its present negative connotations. Chronology In opposition (1919–33) Nazi leader Adolf Hitler devoted two chapters of his 1925/26 work Mein Kampf, itself a propaganda tool, to the study and practice of propaganda...

Transfeminism ... However, women were arrested and imprisoned for "antisocial behavior," which included feminism, lesbianism, and prostitution, and was applied to women who did not conform to the ideal Nazi image of a woman: cooking, cleaning, kitchen work, child raising, and passivity... It was unbelievable." The accounts of police brutality include women being thrown to the ground and protesters' teeth being knocked out...

LGBT Symbols ... Transsexual men and women (referred to as a trans man or trans woman respectively) desire to establish a permanent gender role as a member of the gender with which they identify, often pursuing medical interventions as part of the process...

Women's Suffrage In New Zealand ... The Electoral Bill granting women the franchise was given Royal Assent by Governor Lord Glasgow on 19 September 1893, and women voted for the first time in the election held on 28 November 1893 (elections for the Māori electorates were held on 20 December)... History Women's suffrage was granted after about two decades of campaigning by women such as Kate Sheppard and Mary Ann Müller and organisations such as the New Zealand branch of the Women's Christian Temperance Union led by Anne Ward... Suffrage advocates countered that allowing women to vote would encourage policies which protected and nurtured families...