National Organization for Women

The baby friendly initiative is a global program started in 1991 by the World Health Organization (WHO) and UNICEF focused on improving the role of maternity services to encourage mothers to breastfeed to help babies get the best start in life. These health agencies recommend that babies are breastfed exclusively for their first six months of life. The primary goal is to improve prenatal care of mothers, mother/baby care after delivery, and provide services and care that promote and support…

of responsibility to make sure foreigners would not control our land and make sure it stays ours. Before the war started women did not have the right to vote, but after a time of peacefully protesting they got their right to vote. It was a difficult struggle for women to attain their right to vote, they had to keep fighting the discrimination against them. In addition the women…

Motherhood were prominent ideas in the 18th and early 19th centuries that encouraged women to stay home and perform menial tasks. This notion of separate spheres between men and women began to be contested as the 19th century progressed. Beginning with the Seneca Falls convention in 1848 and continuing throughout the Gilded Age, society’s views on women were challenged. Culminating with the Progressive Era, women gained various political rights, most notably gaining the right to vote. Despite…

Gomez was a primary school teacher and community leader in El Salvador A member of Emmanuel Baptist church in El Salvador, Gómez was a national leader both of Baptist women and in the teachers union She was also a founder of the National Coordination of Salvadoran Women CONAMUS an organization founded in 1986 which worked on issues directly affecting poor women in…

I was introduced to afterschool clubs such as Mu Alpha Theta and National Honor Society. Additionally, my engineering teachers encouraged me to take challenging math and science courses. Through the academy’s efficacious efforts, I was prepared for college. Before coming to high school, I did not consider my future career…

rights advocate. She was also the other founder of the National Women Suffrage Association in 1869. The ways she fought for Women’s Rights were by making petitions that people signed, saying speeches, and creating organizations. Elizabeth Cady Stanton was an abolitionist for the Women’s Rights and led the Women’s Suffragist. She fought for women’s rights to vote, for education, having the right to own property, and more. Stanton also found the National…

Abstract The push for diversity has been somewhat captivating when it comes to minorities acquiring senior and executive positions in corporate America. An array of studies have proven that organizations implementing movements of exercising the promotion of minorities have outperformed their competitors from a profitability perspective. So far, minorities are failing in achieving these high-level positions, thus it is imperative for Human Resources to truly have an understanding of the role…

from Trust for Public Land (2008) article stating that, The City of Santa Ana has a childhood obesity rate of 34.8%, which is the second to only one other city in the state of California (pg.13). Santa Ana’s local agencies and some of their organizations have setup and developed many programs and interventions…

takes you, they make you do things against your will. YOU are their slave. The Polaris Project is here to help. The Polaris Project is a nonprofit, non-governmental organization that works to prevent modern-day slavery, also known as human trafficking. They operate the National Human Trafficking Resource Center which serves as a national hotline on human trafficking. The Polaris Project estimates that about 20.9 million victims of human-trafficking globally. Let’s bring that number down. You…

shaped US history and changed America was the World War 2 home front and women in the work force. There was a huge shift in the workforce because of the staggering amount of men who were serving in the military at the time. Influential propaganda posters like “Rosie the Riveter” contributed to the increase of women in the workforce because she displayed strength and she represented women unlike anyone else. Despite how women contributed to society in a huge way by working, when the soldiers…