When Reagan was elected president in 1980, Smeal analyzed in the National NOW Times the difference between women's and men's votes—making her the first person to define and name the "gender gap." That January, ... Throughout 1992, NOW's "Elect Women For A Change" campaign had projects running full force in Connecticut,
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As a woman of non-U.S. ... I feel very fortunate to be exposed to so many intelligent, strong, and supportive women everyday that I've met through the task force, my local NOW chapter, ... I am the President of the Capital chapter of NOW, the Secretary of the Columbus chapter, and the Young Feminist Task Force Chair for Ohio,
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In 2000 this was carried out by Kathy Sernak, who was chair of task force until 2003. ... been chaired by three woman of color, and the current chair (2005-06) is an ... Each year the task force reaches out to women of color to publicize RWE ... the SIG and the Committee on Gender Equality (now called SAGE) and now ...
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The "Woman Question" is raised for the first time at a Student's for Democratic Society (SDS) conference. ... First national women's liberation conference held in Lake Villa, IL. ... CWLU members organize the Abortion Task Force (ATF) to assist low-income and minority women gain access to abortions in the wake of Roe vrs. Wade.
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he Office of Research on Women’s Health; (ORWH) of the National Institutes of Health; (NIH), U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; (DHHS), and the Task Force on the Recruitment and; Retention of Women in Clinical Research are pleased to present the results of the scientific workshop “Science;
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by Roberta W. Francis, Co-Chair, ERA Task Force, National Council of Women's Organizations ... The 15th Amendment declared that "the right of citizens . . . to vote shall not be denied or abridged . . . on account of race, color, or previous condition of servitude" – but women of all races were still denied the ballot.
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As Chair of the Assembly Task Force on Women’s Issues, I am proud of the Assembly Majority’s commitment to the advancement of a woman-friendly agenda. ... requires insurers to pay for annual breast cancer-detecting mammograms for women beginning at age 40. New York is now the first state that requires this.
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Leila Ahmed was appointed to the Women's Studies in Religion professorship in 1999 at Harvard Divinity School; she is the first person to occupy that chair. Since 1981, she had been Professor of Women's Studies and Near Eastern Studies at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst.
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Associate Career Services Director Nikki Love has just been invited to serve as Co-Chair of the Diverse Women's Task Force Committee of the Lawyers Club of San Diego! ... The purpose of the Diverse Women's Task Force is to identify, work to resolve and raise awareness regarding the particular challenges which women of color,
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The National Organization for Women ( NOW ) is the largest feminist organization in the United States. It was founded in 1966 and has a membership of 500,000 contributing members and 5987 chapters...
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