Conferences advance women through education and policy
The article notes efforts to publicize women’s achievements and add women’s history to curricula, with the Beijing conference aiming to build support for policies expanding education and opportunities for women. It highlights student Katie Adams’s calls for equality in sports and campus safety, and cites global progress and backlash observed by Dr. Leslie Wolfe.
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Mexico City
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Center For Women Policy Studies
United Nations
Vienna
Cairo
Egypt
Copenhagen
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United States
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Francine Levinson
Senate
House
U.S Department of State
Maryland lagged on women’s rights 75 years ago
Annapolis reports that Maryland did not ratify the 19th amendment until 1941, decades after its national adoption in 1920. The piece highlights a active suffrage movement, noting figures such as Margaret Brent, Frederick Douglass, and Lavinia Engle, and contrasts with Maryland’s later 1972 ERA effort.
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Vention
Seneca Falls
N.Y
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