Women Rule The Blogosphere

Women In Science ... Recorded examples include Aglaonike, who predicted eclipses; and Theano, mathematician and physician, who was a pupil (possibly also wife) of Pythagoras, and one of a school in Crotone founded by Pythagoras, which included many other women... Several women are recorded as contributing to the proto-science of alchemy in Alexandria around the 1st or 2nd centuries AD, where the gnostic tradition led to female contributions being valued...

List Of Greek Mythological Figures ... Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton refused to endorse the amendment, as it did not give the vote to women... Others, such as Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe however argued that if black men were enfranchised, women would achieve their goal... The conflict caused two organizations to emerge, the National Woman Suffrage Association, which campaigned for women's suffrage at a federal level as well as for married women to be given property rights, and the American Woman Suffrage Association, which aimed to secure women's suffrage through state legislation...

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...

Women's Major Golf Championships ... Unlike the men's equivalents, with the sole exception of the U. S. Women's Open, the women's majors have title sponsors...

Suffrage ... Suffrage is often conceived in terms of elections for representatives; however, suffrage applies equally to initiative and referendum. Suffrage describes not only the legal right to vote, but also the practical question of whether a question will be put to a vote...

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...

Women's Suffrage In The United Kingdom ... The main Soviet censorship body, Glavlit, employed 70,000 full-time staff not only to eliminate any undesirable printed materials, but also "to ensure that the correct ideological spin was put on every published item". Telling anything against the "Party line" was punished by imprisonment or through punitive psychiatry...

Women In Islam ... 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...

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 ... International organizations were formed to coordinate efforts, especially the International Council of Women (1888) and the International Woman Suffrage Alliance (1904)... In 1893, New Zealand became the first nation to extend the right to vote to all adult women, and the women in South Australia achieved the same right in 1895 but became the first to obtain also the right to stand (run) for Parliament...

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...

American Propaganda During World War II ... Ancient China All-China Women's Federation In 1949, All-China Women's Federation was founded to "represent and to protect women’s rights and interests, and to promote equality between men and women." It was a multi-tier GONGO organization "with local women’s federations and group members at every divisional level of government." Progress in promoting equality "In 1949, when the PRC was founded, employed women accounted for only 7% of the workforce; in 1992, however, the figure was 38%... In 1982, Chinese working women made up 43% of the total population, higher than the percentages enjoyed by American women (35.3%) or Japanese women (36%)." Gender disparity Mainland China has a highly masculine sex ratio...

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

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...

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"...