Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
This is a historical list dealing with women scientists in the 20th century. During this time period, women working in scientific fields were rare. Women at this time faced barriers in higher education and often denied access to scientific institutions; in the Western world, the first-wave feminist movement began to break down many of these ...
1880. Abolitionist and women's rights campaigner. [ 39] 1700–1799. Judith Sargent Murray. United States. 1751. 1820. Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes.
Subcategories. This category has the following 23 subcategories, out of 23 total. Women by occupation (95 C, 10 P) Women's history (15 C, 38 P) Women by period (12 C, 7 P)
v. t. e. Women's history is the study of the role that women have played in history and the methods required to do so. It includes the study of the history of the growth of woman's rights throughout recorded history, personal achievements over a period of time, the examination of individual and groups of women of historical significance, and ...
Women's history is much more than chronicling a string of "firsts." Female pioneers have long fought for equal rights and demanded to be treated equally as they chartered new territory in fields ...
Although often overlooked in mainstream historiography, women have engaged in philosophy throughout the field's history. [ 1][ 2] Some notable philosophers include Maitreyi [ 3] (1000 BCE), Gargi Vachaknavi (900 BCE), Ghosha (800 BCE), Hypatia of Alexandria (c. 370–415 CE), Anne Conway (1631–1679), Mary Wollstonecraft (1759–1797), Harriet ...
2. The day became Women's History Week in 1978. An education task force in Sonoma County, California kicked off Women's History Week in 1978 on March 8, International Women's Day, according to the ...
Neo Ntsoma (born 1972), known for being the first woman recipient of the Mohamed Amin Award, the CNN African Journalist of the Year Prize Photography; Jo Ractliffe (born 1961), photographer and teacher; Lesley Rochat (fl 2000s), conservationist and underwater photographer; Colla Swart (born 1930), photographs of people, landscapes and flowers ...