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    Addie Viola Smith (1893–1975) was an American attorney who served as the U.S. trade commissioner to Shanghai from 1928 to 1939, the first female Foreign Service officer in the U.S. Foreign Service to work under the Commerce Department, and the first woman to serve as trade commissioner.

  3. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    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.

  4. Lesbian feminism - Wikipedia

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    Lesbian feminist literary critic Bonnie Zimmerman frequently analyzes the language used by writers from within the movement, often drawing from autobiographical narratives and the use of personal testimony. According to Zimmerman, lesbian feminist texts tend to be expressly non-linear, poetic and even obscure. [9]

  5. Elizabeth Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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    Zimmermann immigrated to the United States from England in 1937 with her new husband, German brewery master Arnold Zimmermann. [5] The Zimmermanns initially settled in New York and eventually moved across country, finally settling in Wisconsin in a converted schoolhouse which would become home to Schoolhouse Press, a mail-order knitting business still based in the schoolhouse and run by her ...

  6. Social construction of gender - Wikipedia

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    Gender is used as a means of describing the distinction between the biological sex and socialized aspects of femininity and masculinity. [7] According to West and Zimmerman, is not a personal trait; it is "an emergent feature of social situations: both as an outcome of and a rationale for various social arrangements, and as a means of legitimating one of the most fundamental divisions of society."

  7. Walter Max Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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    Walter Max Zimmermann (May 9, 1892 – June 30, 1980) was a German botanist and systematist.Zimmernann’s notions of classifying life objectively based on phylogenetic methods and on evolutionarily important characters were foundational for modern phylogenetics.

  8. Charles H. Zimmerman - Wikipedia

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    In the 1940s, Zimmerman and the Navy began researching this idea, which led to the Vought XF5U, nicknamed the "flying pancake". In 1953, Hiller Aircraft contracted with the Office of Naval Research to combine several research ideas, including Zimmerman's "kinesthetic" theory, to produce an airworthy "flying platform". The project was classified ...

  9. Erich Zimmermann - Wikipedia

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    Erich Walter Zimmermann (July 31, 1888 – February 16, 1961) was a resource economist.He was an economist at the University of North Carolina and later the University of Texas.