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  2. Women's studies - Wikipedia

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    The National Women's Studies Association (of the United States) was established in 1977. [20] In 1977, there were 276 women's studies programs nationwide in the United States. The number of programs increased in the following decade, growing up to 530 programs in 1989, [21] which included the program at the University of Puerto Rico founded by ...

  3. Female education - Wikipedia

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    Female education is a catch-all term for a complex set of issues and debates surrounding education (primary education, secondary education, tertiary education, and health education in particular) for girls and women. [1][2] It is frequently called girls' education or women's education. It includes areas of gender equality and access to education.

  4. Jigsaw (teaching technique) - Wikipedia

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    Jigsaw (teaching technique) The jigsaw technique is a method of organizing classroom activity that makes students dependent on each other to succeed. It breaks classes into groups that each assemble a piece of an assignment and synthesize their work when finished. It was designed by social psychologist Elliot Aronson to help weaken racial ...

  5. Intersectionality - Wikipedia

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    Intersectionality is a sociological analytical framework for understanding how groups' and individuals' social and political identities result in unique combinations of discrimination and privilege. Examples of these factors include gender, caste, sex, race, ethnicity, class, sexuality, religion, disability, height, age, and weight. [1]

  6. Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female - Wikipedia

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    White women's class and race aids in their privilege ultimately. The troubled relationship between black women and white women's movement was also seen in feminist organizations such as the Student Non-violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC) as around 1965, white women were moving from SNCC to a more upper-middle-class Students for Democratic ...

  7. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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    The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.

  8. Women's empowerment - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  9. Women's liberation movement - Wikipedia

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    The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism. It emerged in the late 1960s and continued into the 1980s, primarily in the industrialized nations of the Western world, which effected great change (political, intellectual, cultural) throughout the world. The WLM branch of radical feminism ...