First International Congress of Working Women (ICWW), convened by the Women's Trade Union League of America from October 28 to November 6, 1919, was a...
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This is a listing of noteworthy historical events relating to the international women's movement which occurred in 1919. January 1919: Czechoslovakia —...
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Berne International (est. 1919), socialist International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP), aka 2½ International or Vienna International (1921-1923)...
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International (1889–1916): Berne International (est. 1919), socialist International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP), aka 2½ International or...
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Conference 1919 International Congress of Working Women, Washington, D.C., 28 delegates from 11 countries International Conference of Communist Women, 1920...
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The Communist International (Comintern), also known as the Third International, was an international organization founded in 1919 that advocated world...
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141. Du Bois 1919. Farmer, Ashley (3 July 2016). "Black Women Organize for the Future of Pan-Africanism: the Sixth Pan-African Congress". AAIHS. Retrieved...
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Communist International could only adopt a very brief "Resolution on the Role of Working Women" submitted by Alexandra Kollontai on 6 March 1919, which made...
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The Women's International League for Peace and Freedom (WILPF) is a non-profit non-governmental organization working "to bring together women of different...
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1855) Zonta International – founded 1919, a global organization of executives and professionals working together to advance the status of women worldwide...
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excluded from men's trade unions, to form Working Women's Associations. As a delegate to the National Labor Congress in 1868, Anthony persuaded the committee...
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National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party or simply the Congress, is a political party in India with deep roots in most regions of India....
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Carrie Chapman Catt (category International Alliance of Women people)
the International Woman Suffrage Alliance in 1904, which was later named International Alliance of Women. She "led an army of voteless women in 1919 to...
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legal aid, humane working conditions and maternity relief, rights to work and education, and raising the standard of living. Women were substantially...
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first International Conference of Socialist Women came from a congress of German women in 1906, which suggested that a conference of Socialist women should...
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International relations (1919–1939) covers the main interactions shaping world history in this era, known as the interwar period, with emphasis on diplomacy...
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Berne International (est. 1919), socialist International Working Union of Socialist Parties (IWUSP), aka 2½ International or Vienna International, founded...
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representation of working women on government bodies. Macarthur attended the Women's International Labour Conference in 1919, and also the founding conference of the...
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The Paris Peace Conference was a set of formal and informal diplomatic meetings in 1919 and 1920 after the end of World War I, in which the victorious...
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educational levels. Between 1919 and 1929, all of the British Provinces, as well as most of the Princely states granted women the right to vote and in some...
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Working time or laboring time is the period of time that a person spends at paid labor. Unpaid labor such as personal housework or caring for children...
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Laura Vapnek, "The 1919 International Congress of Working Women: Transnational Debates on the Woman Worker". Journal of Women's History. (2014), pp....
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World Congress of the Comintern to discuss participating in the Comintern. Whilst Däumig and Stoecker agreed with the International's 21 conditions of entry...
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commitments to promote the equality of men and women. Many early Russian feminists and ordinary Russian working women actively participated in the Revolution...
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Canadian Labour Revolt (category Revolutions of 1917–1923)
Trades and Labour Congress leadership argued that the purpose of unionism should be to negotiate only for material gains such as working hours and wages...
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labour Second International (1889–1916), socialist and labour Berne International (est. 1919), socialist International Working Union of Socialist Parties...
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Surendranath Banerjee (category Presidents of the Indian National Congress)
many liberal leaders he left Congress and founded a new organisation named Indian National Liberation Federation in 1919. Surendranath Banerjee was born...
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Eight-hour day movement (redirect from 40-hour working week)
eight-hour working day, under the government of José Batlle y Ordóñez. Nevertheless, the law was not effective on all type of works. On 3 April 1919, Spain...
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The International Ladies' Garment Workers' Union (ILGWU), whose members were employed in the women's clothing industry, was once one of the largest labor...
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Clara Ragaz (category Women's International League for Peace and Freedom people)
same year, she published Women in Peace from a talk she had given. In 1919 she played a key role in bringing the Congress of Zurich to the city, which...
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