Women's Health Initiative

Elizabeth Cady Stanton: The Women’s Right Fighter Elizabeth Cady Stanton was one of the earliest American women’s rights activists in the 19th century. However, Stanton was also an active abolitionist with her husband and cousin. During her time, Stanton was a well-educated woman, who wanted to attend a college that only admitted males. It was common that colleges would restrict women from attending there. When it came to Stanton, she focused mainly on the issues pertaining to women’s right…

The top three reform movements from the period between 1880-1990 based on impact and social significance to society would be 1) Progressivism, 2) Civil Rights, and 3) Women’s suffrage. Those three reform movements were selected are because each of them created conditions of conflict that affected the results of other movements and in many respects still influence Americans today. The following provides insight into why those three reform movements had the most importance to the U.S. The…

Nations are not the only entities capable of providing aid, and much of the individual work done in foreign countries comes from the private sector of society. Military aid will almost always require a government presence, but smaller expeditions, such as volunteers sent to teach, or distribute medicine, or provide service, act independently from the government. These organizations often provide a large amount of disaster relief as well, collecting and distributing donations of food, clean water…

In 1910, Alice Paul introduced the idea of militancy to the women’s movement. She was exasperated by the conservative methods being used and decided to take matters into her own hands. Paul organized a march of 5,000 women on Pennsylvania Avenue the day before Woodrow Wilson’s inauguration in 1913. The crowds were outraged by the women’s public display of defiance and showered the marchers with burning cigarette butts and harsh comments. This upset the NAWSA, National American Women Suffrage…

conceptualized to study the gaps or deficiencies of prevailing in our society, particularly in employment, education, health care, women literacy and so forth. Gender budgeting in Indian context emphasizes women centric development covering mainly gender equality and development. Development of women is central to any country's progress. As per Government of India, Gender Budgeting initiatives which allocate money to implement policies and programs were supposed to change the existing gender…

Through research and my own knowledge, I am well aware that India is pushing towards more Open Data initiatives. There have been several conferences and platforms that have been developed to support these objectives. Despite this, however, government agencies are not all on board and lack the understanding as to why they need to open up data about their activities…

I. Introduction – Women Wifmann. Wimmann. Wumman. And finally, it became woman in modern English. Woman is not just define by having and raising the children, although it is one of the key points. Terminologically, a female human is said to be in the womanhood stage when she had passed through the two (2) stages before it which are the childhood and adolescence, and generally it is after at the age of 18. But the definition of “woman/women” does not end there. It might be a five-letter word, but…

Body Project: An Intimate History of American Girls, she examines the familial, cultural, and institutional forces that played a significant role in shaping women’s bodies and attitudes and uses historical evidence to illustrate them. In the nineteenth-century, one’s morality was the hub of adolescence. (Brumberg xx). Mothers took initiative into instructing their daughters on how to properly groom and dress themselves. Society also discouraged women from discussing bodily concerns with anybody,…

Perkins was hesitant to accept, wanting to keep her husband and her teenage daughter’s mental health conditions out of the media (The Kansas City Library, 2013) and aware that there would be pushback to becoming the first woman to serve as a cabinet member in the United States. Additionally, by becoming secretary of labor the administration would…

She created the first African-American kindergarten in her community and fought for women's suffrage. In 1930, Wells made an unsuccessful bid for the state senate. Health problems plagued her the following year. Ida B. Wells- Barnett died of kidney disease on March 25, 1931, at the age of 69, in Chicago, Illinois. She left behind an impressive legacy of social and political heroism…