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The Feminist Five were five Chinese women – Li Maizi (birth name Li Tingting), Wu Rongrong, Zheng Churan, Wei Tingting and Wang Man [101] [102] [103] – who were detained for 37 days after planning to hand out anti-sexual harassment stickers on the subway ahead of International Women's Day 2015 and became known following their arrest.
The Lucy Stone League is a women's rights organization founded in 1921. [1] Its motto is "A wife should no more take her husband's name than he should hers. My name is my identity and must not be lost." [2] It was the first group to fight for women to be allowed to keep their maiden name after marriage—and to use it legally. [3]
v. t. e. Women's empowerment (or female empowerment) may be defined in several method, including accepting women's viewpoints, making an effort to seek them and raising the status of women through education, awareness, literacy, equal status in society, better livelihood and training. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] Women's empowerment equips and allows women ...
The origins of “say her name” comes from campaigns to break the silence around Black women, girls, and femmes whose […] The post How Black women coined the ‘say her name’ rallying cry ...
HeForShe, often referred to as He for She, is a solidarity movement for the advancement of gender equality initiated by the United Nations.Grounded in the idea that gender inequality is an issue that affects all people, socially, economically and politically, HeForShe is a global effort that seeks to involve men and boys in achieving equality by taking action against negative gender ...
Arab Feminist Union – founded 1945. Associated Country Women of the World – international organization formed in 1933. The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901. Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931. Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas ...
UN Women is charged with advocating for the rights of women and girls, and focusing on a number of issues, including violence against women and violence against LGBT people. UN Women was established by a merger of the UN Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM, established in 1976) and other entities and became operational in 2011. [ 3 ]
It was the "first women's liberation group in New York City", [52] and followed a radical feminist ideology that declared that "the personal is political" and "sisterhood is powerful"—formulations that arose from these consciousness-raising sessions. [53] [54] Within the year, women's liberation groups sprang up all over America. [55]