Journal articles: 'Women's Commission'

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ALLAN, ELIZABETH. "Constructing Women's Status: Policy Discourses of University Women's Commission Reports." Harvard Educational Review 73, no. 1 (April 1, 2003): 44–72. http://dx.doi.org/10.17763/haer.73.1.f61t41j83025vwh7.

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In this article, Elizabeth J. Allan explores how discourses embedded in university women's commission reports position women as victims, outsiders to the structure and culture of the institution, and as being in need of professional development. Using policy discourse analysis, Allan examines discourses generated by university women's commissions, which are policy-focused groups advocating for gender equity in higher education. Allan analyzes the text of twenty-one commission reports issued at four research universities from 1971 to 1996, and illustrates how dominant discourses of femininity, access, and professionalism contribute to constructing women's status in complex ways and may have the unintended consequence of undermining the achievement of gender equity. She also explores how a caregiving discourse is drawn on and challenges institutional norms of the academic workplace. Allan provides four suggestions for improving university women's commissions, including promoting awareness of policy as discourse; analyzing frameworks and assumptions of policy reports; examining implications of policy recommendations; and looking at how policy discourses construct images of women.

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Watson, Joy. "Prioritising Women's Rights: The Commission on Gender Equality." Agenda, no. 34 (1997): 94. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/4066247.

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Greenberg, Jaclyn. "The Limits of Legislation: Katherine Philips Edson, Practical Politics, and the Minimum-Wage Law in California, 1913–1922." Journal of Policy History 5, no. 2 (April 1993): 207–30. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898030600006710.

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In 1913 the California legislature took a momentous step to improve the wages and working conditions of its women workers by passing a controversial new form of social welfare legislation, a minimum-wage bill, which established the Industrial Welfare Commission. The mandate gave the commission extensive power: not only to establish a minimum wage for each industry employing women, but to regulate hours and working conditions as well. Although reformers had been building an edifice of protective legislation for women for three decades, the creation of a government body with such wide-ranging authority over virtually every aspect of women's wage work was unprecedented. A handful of states passed similar legislation, but few rose above the challenges by opponents to actually implement the law in a meaningful way. The California Industrial Welfare Commission, in contrast, established wage, hour, and sanitary standards in women's occupations from canneries to movie studios. Responsibility for the success of the California law rested on the administrative brilliance of one woman, Katherine Philips Edson, the law's chief sponsor and then leading commission member. Under her guidance the commission slowly and judiciously improved working women's conditions and won public acceptance of the innovative form of state intervention.

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Duhaime, Bernard. "Women's Rights in Recent Inter-American Human Rights Jurisprudence." Proceedings of the ASIL Annual Meeting 111 (2017): 258–60. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/amp.2017.38.

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While certain aspects of women's rights had been addressed in earlier OAS instruments and more generally in the American Declaration on the Rights and Duties of Man and in the American Convention on Human Rights, many consider that the issue of women's rights was first incorporated in the normative corpus of the Inter-American Human Rights System (IAHRS) with the 1994 adoption of the Belém do Pará Convention on the Prevention, Punishment, and Eradication of Violence Against Women. This treaty obliges states to prevent, punish, and eradicate violence against women, taking special account of vulnerabilities due to race, ethnic background, migrant status, age, pregnancy, socioeconomic situation, etc. It defines the concept of violence against women and forces states to ensure that women live free of violence in the public and private sphere. It also grants the Commission and the Court the ability to process individual complaints regarding alleged violations of the treaty. Since 1994, the Commission has also established a Rapporteurship on the rights of women, which assists the IACHR in its thematic or country reports and visits, as well as in the processing of women's rights–related petitions. In recent years, the jurisprudence of the Commission and the Court has addressed several fundamental issues related to women's rights, in particular regarding violence against women, women's right to equality, and reproductive health.

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Thane, Pat. "Aspects of Women's History." Contemporary European History 3, no. 2 (July 1994): 231–34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777300000795.

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The first volume under review is the outcome of a five-day conference held in Italy in July 1989. It was the first gathering of representatives of national historians’ associations affiliated to the International Federation for Research in Women's History/Federation International pour la Recherche de l'Histoire des Femmes (IFR WH/FIRHF), or rather of those associations which could afford to send representatives. IFR WH/FIRHF is an Internal Commission of the International Committee of the Historical Sciences. Its purpose, obviously, is to promote the serious study of women in history and the role of women within the profession.

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Bhagwat, Vidyut. "Women's Studies in the University." Indian Journal of Gender Studies 9, no. 2 (September 2002): 235–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/097152150200900207.

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This paper charts the institutional history of the Centre for Women's Studies in Poona, which was established in 1987 by the University Grants Commission. It does so both from the macro perspective of the impact of changes in the policies of the state since the time of its establishment and from the perspective of the micro-politics of everyday life within the university system. The paper provides important glimpses of how a particular centre has been able to grow and survive in spite of severe problems and an uncertain future.

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Morris, J. "Women's Experiences of the Justice System." Victoria University of Wellington Law Review 27, no. 4 (December 1, 1997): 649. http://dx.doi.org/10.26686/vuwlr.v27i4.6096.

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This article considers the impact of gender upon women's experiences of the New Zealand justice system, as lawyers and clients. As well as summarising study and survey material, it draws upon information provided to the Law Commission in the course of its project on Women's Acces to Justice: He Putanga mo nga Wahine ki te Tika. It concludes that women are still significantly disadvantaged by the justice system as a result of their gender and that there is an ongoing need for debate and consideration of these issues if women's access to justice is to be improved.

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Kessler-Harris, Alice. "Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Sears, Roebuck and Company: A Personal Account." Feminist Review 25, no. 1 (March 1987): 46–69. http://dx.doi.org/10.1057/fr.1987.4.

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This article was first published in Radical History Review No. 25, 1986. Since then the controversy has escalated dramatically, with articles in the New York Times and Ms magazine and editorials in the Washington Post. Most of the media have used the controversy as a vehicle to attack women's history and women's studies in general. Had I known the direction that this publicity would take I would have written a much stronger piece. Feminist Studies is planning to publish a piece by Ruth Milkman outlining the issues involved in the case, and Signs will publish some of the written testimony in forthcoming issues.

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TOWNS, ANN. "The Inter-American Commission of Women and Women's Suffrage, 1920–1945." Journal of Latin American Studies 42, no. 4 (November 2010): 779–807. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0022216x10001367.

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AbstractIn studies of the international dimensions of women's suffrage, the role of international organisations has been overlooked. This article examines the suffrage activities of the Pan-American Union (PAU), and in particular those of the Inter-American Commission of Women (IACW), between 1920 and 1945. Attentive to historical context, the examination suggests that international organisations can be both bearers of state interests and platforms for social movement interests. The article also argues that while not independent bureaucracies, the PAU and IACW nevertheless had some importance for suffrage that cannot be attributed either to their state members or to the suffragist movements.

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Wagle, Samjhana. "Women's Representation in Bureaucracy: Reservation Policy in Nepali Civil Service." Journal of Education and Research 9, no. 2 (December 31, 2019): 27–48. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jer.v9i2.30461.

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This paper analyses women's representation in Nepali bureaucracy after the implementation of the reservation policy in 2007. The motivation behind the reservation was that people from marginalized and weaker section of the society should be uplifted. Moreover, representative bureaucracy refers to a bureaucracy that embodies the demographic structure of the society. Following descriptive research method, I collected data from secondary sources such as annual reports and other publications of Public Service Commission, Nepal. The amendment of Civil Service Act-1993 in 2007 with the provision of 45 per cent reservation of civil service seats for women along with indigenous community, Madhesi, Dalit, disabled people and people from backward areas has resulted in the growing number of women’s participation. The growing number of women civil servants in the recent years is expected to change the landscape of civil service in near future. Implications for public administration research and practice are discussed.

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Scraton, Phil, and Linda Moore. "Degradation, Harm and Survival in a Women's Prison." Social Policy and Society 5, no. 1 (January 2006): 67–78. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s1474746405002757.

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Based on primary research for the Northern Ireland Human Rights Commission this article focuses on the conditions and regimes under which women and girls are imprisoned in the North of Ireland. Extensive interviews with women place their experiences and reflections at the heart of the analysis and are supported by full observational access to the daily routines in operation at the Mourne House Unit at Maghaberry Prison. Of particular concern are institutionalised practices regarding self-harm, suicide prevention and the pathologisation of girls and women with mental health needs.

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Zachs, Fruma, and Yuval Ben-Bassat. "WOMEN'S VISIBILITY IN PETITIONS FROM GREATER SYRIA DURING THE LATE OTTOMAN PERIOD." International Journal of Middle East Studies 47, no. 4 (October 14, 2015): 765–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743815000975.

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AbstractThis article focuses on petitions by Ottoman women from Greater Syria during the late Ottoman era. After offering a general overview of women's petitions in the Ottoman Empire, it explores changes in women's petitions between 1865 and 1919 through several case studies. The article then discusses women's “double-voiced” petitions following the empire's defeat in World War I, particularly those submitted to the King-Crane Commission. The concept of “double-voiced” petitions, or speaking in a voice that reflects both a dominant and a muted discourse, is extended here from the genre of literary fiction to Ottoman women's petitions. We argue that in Greater Syria double-voiced petitions only began to appear with the empire's collapse, when women both participated in national struggles and strove to protect their rights as women in their own societies.

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Gallman, J. Matthew, and Judith Ann Giesberg. "Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition." Journal of American History 88, no. 1 (June 2001): 209. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2674969.

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Waugh, Joan, and Judith Ann Giesberg. "Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition." American Historical Review 106, no. 3 (June 2001): 987. http://dx.doi.org/10.2307/2692401.

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DONERT, CELIA. "From Communist Internationalism to Human Rights: Gender, Violence and International Law in the Women's International Democratic Federation Mission to North Korea, 1951." Contemporary European History 25, no. 2 (April 12, 2016): 313–33. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0960777316000096.

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AbstractIn May 1951 the Women's International Democratic Federation – a communist-sponsored non-governmental organisation – sent an all-female international commission to investigate the war crimes and atrocities allegedly committed by United Nations forces against civilians during the military occupation of North Korea in late 1950. Communist internationalism has been relatively marginalised in the recent wave of scholarship on internationalism and international organisations. This article uses the Women's International Democratic Federation mission to Korea to analyse how the shifting relationship between communist internationalism, human rights and feminism played out in the ‘Third World’ during the early Cold War.

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Shrestha, Amrit Kumar. "TRENDS OF WOMEN'S CANDIDACY IN NATIONAL ELECTIONS OF NEPAL." Researcher: A Research Journal of Culture and Society 3, no. 3 (October 31, 2018): 47–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/researcher.v3i3.21549.

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The study area of this article is women's candidacy in national elections of Nepal. It focuses on five national elections held from 1991 to 2013. It is based on secondary source of data. The Election Commission of Nepal publishes a report after every election. Data are extracted from the reports published by the Election Commission and analyzed with the help of the software SPSS. This article analyzes only facts regarding the first-past-the-post (FPTP) electoral system. Such a study is important in order to lead to new affirmative action policies that will enhance gender mainstreaming and effective participation in all leadership and development processes. The findings will also be resourceful to scholars who are working in this field. The findings from this investigation provide evidence that the number of women candidates in national elections seems almost invisible in an overwhelming crowd of men candidates. The number of elected women candidates is very few. Similarly, distribution of women candidates is unequal in geographical regions. Where the human development rate is high the number of women candidates is greater. The roles of political parties of Nepal are not profoundly positive to increase women's candidacy. Likewise, electoral systems are responsible to influence women‟s chances of being elected. FPTP electoral system is not more favorable for women candidates. This article recommends that if a constituency would reserve only for women among three through FPTP then the chances of 33 percent to win the elections by women would be secured. Researcher: A Research Journal of Culture and SocietyVol. 3, No. 3, January 2018, Page: 47-62

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Campbell, Jacqueline G. "Civil War Sisterhood: The U.S. Sanitary Commission and Women's Politics in Transition (review)." Civil War History 47, no. 2 (2001): 168–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1353/cwh.2001.0021.

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Shrestha, Amrit Kumar, and Shyam Prasad Phuyel. "Women's Candidacy in Local Level Elections, 2017." Dristikon: A Multidisciplinary Journal 9, no. 1 (December 31, 2019): 1–19. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/dristikon.v9i1.31153.

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Local levels have emerged as an epicenter of national politics. They influence the province and federal levels. Nepal has 753 local levels; among them 293 are municipalities and 460 are rural municipalities (RM). Women's candidacy in electoral politics is a key issue of political discourse. After the people's movement of 2006, Nepal has made several constitutional and legal reformations in regarding of inclusion of women in politics, particularly at local levels. This article focuses on women candidacy at the local level election of Nepal that held in 2017. It is based on data published by the Election Commission of Nepal. The election result indicates a positive change in terms of women's participation at the local level. Although most of the women are cast at the post of deputy mayor or vice-president of RM, 718 women are entertaining the executive post of the local level. This article analyzes women's participation as a candidate and elected candidate in various posts and positions of local level comparing to their counter partner men candidates.

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Baker, Jeannine. "“Once a typist always a typist”." Feminist Media Histories 4, no. 4 (2018): 160–84. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2018.4.4.160.

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This article discusses the Australian Women's Broadcasting Co-operative (AWBC), formed by women working at the Australian Broadcasting Commission in response to the United Nations' declaration that 1975 would be International Women's Year. It examines the AWBC's attempts to challenge entrenched structural inequalities and sexual discrimination, improve opportunities for women in the organization, and change dominant representations of women's lives in the media. It analyzes the significance of the AWBC's key interventions, including the production of a national weekly radio show for women, The Coming Out Show; the provision of production training for women; pushing for a formal inquiry into the status of women; lobbying for staff childcare facilities; and representing women employees in industrial relations matters. The article concludes with a discussion of the long-term impact of the AWBC and the Coming Out Show, which, despite its genesis as a “bold experiment,” endured for twenty-three years.

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Beniuk, Jodi. "Indigenous Women as the Other: An Analysis of the Missing Women's Commission of Inquiry." Arbutus Review 3, no. 2 (December 5, 2012): 80–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.18357/tar32201211643.

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In this paper, I discuss the ways in which Indigenous women are Othered by the proceedings of the Missing Women‘s Commission of Inquiry (MWCI). First, I give a basic overview of Beauvoir‘s theory of women as Others, followed by Memmi‘s analysis of the relationship between the colonized and the colonizer. I use these two theories to describe the way Indigenous women are Othered both as Indigenous peoples and as women, focusing on the context of the twenty-six who were murdered in Vancouver‘s Downtown Eastside (DTES). The original murders were the result of the cultural reduction of Indigenous Women to their bodies. The negligent police investigations, as well as the misogynistic attitudes of the police, also demonstrate how Othering can operate within these institutions. I claim that the violence against women in the DTES was due to their status as Other. Notably, the MWCI, which is supposed to be a process that addresses the Othering-based negligence of the police, also includes instances of Othering in its structure and practice. From this, I conclude that we cannot rely on Othering institutions or legal processes to correct Othering as a practice. In the context of the MWCI, I suggest building alliances that support those who face this Othering as violence in their everyday lives.

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Fetscherin, Marc, and Mark Toncar. "Viewpoint - Visual Puffery in Advertising." International Journal of Market Research 51, no. 2 (January 2009): 1–4. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/147078530905100217.

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This Viewpoint piece discusses “puffery”, what the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) defines as a ‘term frequently used to denote the exaggerations reasonably to be expected of a seller as to the degree of quality of his product, the truth or falsity of which cannot be precisely determined'’. The authors discuss their own use of semiotic analysis to investigate the existence of visual puffery in magazine advertising of women's fragrances.

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Lloyd, Justine. "“A Girdle of Thought Thrown around the World”." Feminist Media Histories 5, no. 3 (2019): 168–94. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/fmh.2019.5.3.168.

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This article outlines impulses toward internationalism in women's programming during the twentieth century at two public service broadcasters: the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada and the Australian Broadcasting Commission (ABC) in Australia. These case studies show common patterns as well as key differences in the establishment of an international frame for the modern domestic sphere. Research conducted in paper and audio recording archives relating to nonfiction programming for women demonstrates pervasive tensions between women's international versus national solidarities. The article argues that these contradictions must be highlighted—rather than papered over in a simplistic understanding of such programming as reflecting a binary domestic ideology of private versus public, home versus world—to fully understand media history and cultural memory from a gendered perspective.

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O'Malley, Michelle. "A Pair of Little Gilded Shoes: Commission, Cost, and Meaning in Renaissance Footwear*." Renaissance Quarterly 63, no. 1 (2010): 45–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/652533.

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AbstractThis article focuses on women's luxury footwear to examine issues of economic, material, and familial life in Renaissance Italy. It uses graphic work by Albrecht Dürer to explore footwear design, and draws from disparate sources to propose a new method for evaluating its cost. The article argues that sumptuous footwear was available for a range of prices that are not reflected in surviving payment records, and that it was largely less expensive than moralists and legislators implied. In conclusion, it employs Minerbetti documentation to consider the role particular shoes may have played in developing personal subjectivity.

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Galistya, Theresia Mutiara. "KEKERASAN TERHADAP PEREMPUAN DAN PERCERAIAN DALAM PERSPEKTIF PEMBERDAYAAN PEREMPUAN." Jurnal Dinamika Sosial Budaya 21, no. 1 (July 22, 2019): 19. http://dx.doi.org/10.26623/jdsb.v21i1.1500.

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The achievement of Indonesian’s women empowerment through Gender Empowerment Measure (GEM) shows an increase in the last eight years. On the other hand, the increasing trend is also seen in the percentage of violence against women. Ideally, the increase in GDI is followed by a decrease in acts of violence. A study of the 2017 Indonesian Demographic and Health Survey’s data and also on the Annual Note of The Women's National Commission in 2018 is conduct to illustrate the conditions of women's empowerment, violence against women, and divorce as a result of violence. This study used a qualitative approach with descriptive and comparative analysis. The results indicate that the two indicators of women's empowerment, that is women's participation in household decision making and women's control of her income were related to disagreement towards domestic violence. In general, the higher the participation and control that women have, the more women disagree with all reasons to justify beating husbands to wives. This shows that in the future this attitude can reduce domestic violence as a cause of divorce. However, this study needs a more comprehensive analysis. This study also recommends the need for strengthening gender-based legislation to eliminate violence against women and will have an impact on women welfare and family resilience.

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Eckenwiler, Lisa A. "Pursuing Reform in Clinical Research: Lessons from Women's Experience." Journal of Law, Medicine & Ethics 27, no. 2 (1999): 158–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1748-720x.1999.tb01448.x.

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In a White House ceremony on May 16, 1997, President Clinton issued an apology on behalf of the nation for the Tuskegee Syphilis Study, a forty-year research project in which African-American men were deceived and denied treatment in order to document the natural course of syphilis. Reflection on this occasion can give us pause to take pride in the progress made toward more ethical research with humans. The President's apology is perhaps the most public of a number of recent events representing a renewed attention to ethics in research with human participants. Alongside it stand the efforts of treatment activists for people with acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS) and the revelations of the human radiation experiments. In 1995, President Clinton called for the creation of the National Bioethics Advisory Commission, which was charged with a host of projects aimed at investigating the organization and function of the federal system for overseeing human subjects research in the United States, and giving guidance on specific forms of research.

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Mehran, Roxana, Birgit Vogel, Rebecca Ortega, Rebecca Cooney, and Richard Horton. "The Lancet Commission on women and cardiovascular disease: time for a shift in women's health." Lancet 393, no. 10175 (March 2019): 967–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0140-6736(19)30315-0.

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Driver, Dorothy. "Truth, Reconciliation, Gender: the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission and Black Women's Intellectual History1." Australian Feminist Studies 20, no. 47 (July 2005): 219–29. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/0816464500090384.

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Donovan, Mary Sudman. "Anglican Women: Empowering Each other to Further God's Kingdom." Journal of Anglican Studies 5, no. 1 (June 2007): 39–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/1740355307077932.

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ABSTRACTIn February 2006, women from every province of the Anglican Communion gathered in New York for the annual meeting of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women. Once assembled, they established an organizational structure to perpetuate their gathering and called for an expanded women's presence on all Anglican Communion governing bodies. This article traces the development of the group, showing how a few women used the political structures of the Anglican Communion–the Anglican Observer at the United Nations, the Anglican Consultative Council and the International Anglican Women's Network–to assemble Anglican women. It demonstrates that the experience of meeting together became a source of empowerment for the participants and analyzes the factors contributing to the venture's success so that they might serve as models for the Anglican Communion as it struggles to maintain unity while embracing diversity.

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PRICE, DEBORA. "Closing the Gender Gap in Retirement Income: What Difference Will Recent UK Pension Reforms Make?" Journal of Social Policy 36, no. 4 (August 8, 2007): 561–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0047279407001183.

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AbstractThe second report of the Pensions Commission sought to establish a framework for a sustainable pension system for future generations of pensioners in the UK. The framework has been largely accepted by government in their recent White Paper, Security in Retirement: Towards a New Pension System (2006). Legislation will follow. The Commission and the government have made a number of claims about how their proposals will benefit women. Reforms have been welcomed by women's lobby groups. This article presents a gendered analysis of the Pensions Commission proposals using unpublished data generated by Pensim2, a pensions' simulator developed by the Department for Work and Pensions. Substantial improvements for women will be in the long term only, and will depend heavily on the extent to which gendered patterns of work and family life change in future. For women who follow traditional paths of combining part-time work with looking after children and kin, outcomes will depend on partnering arrangements. If they are married or cohabiting, they will be better off; but if they live alone in later life, the principal advantage of the proposals will be a reduction in means testing rather than an improvement in levels of income.

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Bass, Rosalyn. "The royal commission on historical manuscripts and the national register of archives: sources for women's history." Women's History Review 10, no. 1 (March 2001): 99–104. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09612020100200271.

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Reckelhoff, Jane F., and Licy L. Yanes Cordozo. "As precision medicine becomes more important, is it finally time for increased emphasis on gender medicine?" Biochemist 39, no. 1 (February 1, 2017): 4–5. http://dx.doi.org/10.1042/bio03901004.

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Gender medicine is the topic of this issue of The Biochemist. In 2014, Francis Collins, Director of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), and Janine Clayton, Director of the Office of Research on Women's Health (ORWH) at NIH, announced that NIH would begin requiring all preclinical grant proposals to address sex as a biological variable1. The ORWH was set up in 1990 with the specific mandate to promote the inclusion of women and minority individuals in all clinical trials going forward2. Similar guidelines are imposed by the European Commission and the Canadian Institutes of Health Research.

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Graybill, Lyn. "The contribution of the truth and reconciliation commission toward the promotion of women's rights in south africa." Women's Studies International Forum 24, no. 1 (January 2001): 1–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0277-5395(00)00160-6.

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van Doorn‐Harder, Nelly. "Purifying Indonesia, Purifying Women: The National Commission for Women's Rights and the 1965–1968 anti‐Communist violence." CrossCurrents 69, no. 3 (September 2019): 301–18. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/cros.12380.

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Kostiuchenko, Olena Y., Olha V. Hots-Yakovlieva, and Julia O. Sayenko. "GENDER INEQUALITY IN HEALTHCARE IN TERMS OF EMPLOYMENT AND REMUNERATION: LEGAL MEANS OF OVERCOMING THE PROBLEM." Wiadomości Lekarskie 73, no. 12 (2020): 2810–15. http://dx.doi.org/10.36740/wlek202012218.

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The aim: To determine the nature of gender inequalities in the field of healthcare according to the criteria of employment and remuneration and to outline legal means to overcome this problem. Materials and methods: Reports of international organizations (World Health Organization, International Labour Organization, Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development); Ukrainian non-governmental organizations' reports and statistics of the State Statistics Service of Ukraine. The study is based on theoretical and empirical methods. Conclusions: To overcome the problems associated with gender inequality in healthcare, we need to use legal means intended to implement the concept of decent work for women who work in the medical profession. This concept should include: removing barriers of women's employment in healthcare, support to women's careers and gender parity on management positions at healthcare facilities; establishing the minimum wage of healthcare employees at the level of the average wage in the country; creation of a specific entity (e.g. commission) to consider cases of gender discrimination against women in the healthcare sector; establishing salary bonuses for women-healthcare employees who have children, and other legal mechanisms.

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Zinaida, Rahma Santhi, and Siti Lady Havivi. "Understanding the Communication Strategy of Women's Rights Protection in the Digital Era through Website." Jurnal The Messenger 11, no. 2 (July 30, 2019): 244. http://dx.doi.org/10.26623/themessenger.v11i2.1194.

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The National Commission on Violence Against Women in Indonesia through their website, release that there are three women who become victims of sexual violence every two hours. Kalyanamitra was chosen as the subject of the study because there are not many NGO’s committed in protecting women's rights in Indonesia that have survived for more than 33 years. This study aims to explain how the communication strategy has been done in this organization through their official website. The important of doing this study is that can inspire other NGO’s to optimize the use of online media. The theories used in this study are Media Rich Theory (MRT). This study use interpretative paradigm with the type of research is qualitative descriptive. Data were collected by using content analysis from website https://www.kalyanamitra.or.id/#. As the result, Kalyanamitra has done effective communication strategy by using techniques such as canalizing, informative, persuasive, and also educative.

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Charitou, Irini. "Three Plays by Deborah Levy: a Brief Introduction." New Theatre Quarterly 9, no. 35 (August 1993): 230–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0266464x00007958.

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DEBORAH LEVY wrote Pax as the result of a commission from the Women's Theatre Group to write an ‘anti-nuclear’ play. In her own words, she detests ‘those last-two-minutes-in-a-bunker-type scenarios’, so she decided to write an epic play with Europe in the twentieth century as a focal point. Pax takes on board Europe's past, present, and future. There are four women characters in the play, The Keeper, The Hidden Daughter, The Mourner, and The Domesticated Woman. In the published edition of Pax (Plays by Women, Vol. VI, ed. Mary Remnant, Methuen, 1987), Levy describes how she envisaged these characters:I found four archetypes, who represented twentieth-century Europe for me.

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Sissons, Crystal. "Engineer and Feminist: Elsie Gregory MacGill and the Royal Commission on the Status of Women, 1967-1970." Scientia Canadensis 29, no. 2 (June 23, 2009): 74–97. http://dx.doi.org/10.7202/800520ar.

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Abstract Can a woman engineer by a feminist? This article argues in the affirmative using a case study of Elsie Gregory MacGill. Elsie Gregory MacGill was Canada's first woman electrical engineer, graduating in 1927 from The University of Toronto. She then became the first woman to earn a degree in aeronautical engineering from the University of Michigan in 1929. While establishing herself in a predominantly masculine profession, MacGill, also a third generation feminist, actively worked for women's equal rights and opportunities in Canadian society. A case study of her role in the Royal Commission of the Status of Women (RCSW), 1967-1970, is used to illustrate that not only can a woman engineering be a feminist, but more importantly that her dual background allowed her to effectively bridge the worlds of the engineering and feminism in engineering the RCSW.

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Macdonald, Heidi. "Transforming Catholic women's education in the sixties: Sister Catherine Wallace's feminist leadership at Mount Saint Vincent University." Encounters in Theory and History of Education 18 (December 2, 2017): 53–77. http://dx.doi.org/10.24908/eoe-ese-rse.v18i0.6910.

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Sister Catherine Wallace (1917-91) was president of Mount Saint Vincent University (MSVU), Canada’s only degree-granting women’s post-secondary institution, from 1965 to 1974. Wallace’s appointment coincided with a transformative era not only in the North American post-secondary landscape, but also in the Roman Catholic Church and the women’s movement. Wallace was acutely aware that this combination of factors would require a transformation of MSVU itself for the institution to survive the next decade. Wallace ultimately strengthened MSVU’s identity and gave it a more outward-looking vision by embedding many of the goals of second-wave feminism, including the recommendations of the Report of the Royal Commission on the Status of Women in Canada (1970), in the University’s renewal. She also gave the university a more national profile through her work on the executive of the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC), including in 1973 as their first woman president.

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Barrera, Magdalena L. "“Doing the Impossible”." California History 93, no. 4 (2016): 20–41. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/ch.2016.93.4.20.

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In 1915, the California Commission of Immigration and Housing (CCIH) unveiled a bold new experiment: the Home Teacher Program. In Los Angeles, this program sent volunteers into Mexican communities to teach immigrant women new, more “American” ways of homemaking and childrearing. The lesson plans, sample dialogues, teacher testimonies, and photographs featured in CCIH publications provide a fascinating window on to the tense interactions between home teachers and immigrant women. Scholars have long explored different ways of mining institutional records and other forms of writing by Americanization advocates for insights into the experiences of those who participated in the programs. This essay contributes to the discussion of California's Americanization curricula in two ways: First, I provide a close reading of CCIH texts in order to uncover and analyze three layers of recorded experience: (1) teacher biases confronted by immigrant women; (2) immigrant women's difficult material realities; and (3) immigrant women's complex responses to Americanization. Second, I provide further evidence for the view that Mexican immigrant women responded to Americanization efforts in a variety of ways, from outright resistance to milder forms of pushback and, at times, conditional acceptance of the “American” customs presented to them. In light of the evidence, I argue that Mexican immigrant women were “doing the impossible” by laying claim to a piece of California through the complex relationship they negotiated with the home teachers. Although Americanization programs intended to flatten Mexican women's ethnic affiliations, the immigrant women found subtle ways to assert their agency, survive hardship and prejudice, and forge a new Mexican American ethnic community in the process.

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Stolts, V. I. "Meeting of obstetric and gynecological societies. Protocol No. X. Administrative meeting on February 16, 1895." Journal of obstetrics and women's diseases 9, no. 3 (September 22, 2020): 261–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.17816/jowd93261-262.

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It was chaired by V. I. Stolts.1) Protocols Nos. VIII and IX were read and approved.2) The revision committee of the members of Goraiskaya, Zamshin and Frank reported to the Company that during the revision of the cash desk, the last one was found by them in full order.3) Revision commission from members of Eberman, Vasten and A.R. Fisher reported to the Society that the receipts and expenditures and, in general, all the bookkeeping of the editorial office of the "Journal of Obstetrics and Women's Diseases", for the expired 1894, were kept correctly. The reporting financial year, concluded with a cash balance in the size of two hundred sixty seven rubles 32 kopecks (267 rub. 32 kop.).

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Sánchez-López, Maria Pilar, Isabel Cuellar Flores, Virginia Dresch, and Marta Aparicio-Garciá. "Conformity to Feminine Gender Norms in the Spanish Population." Social Behavior and Personality: an international journal 37, no. 9 (October 1, 2009): 1171–85. http://dx.doi.org/10.2224/sbp.2009.37.9.1171.

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In this study, the aim was to describe the adaptation of the Conformity to Feminine Norms Inventory (CFNI; Mahalik et al., 2005) for the Spanish population. The CFNI is used to assess women's conformity to feminine norms in the United States of America, from a multidimensional perspective. The protocol of the International Test Commission was followed when adapting the inventory. The questionnaire was administered to 780 Spanish women between 18 and 59 years of age. Factor analysis revealed a similar profile to that obtained in the USA and, although it is different in some aspects, it supports the structure proposed by the authors. The reliability data (alpha coefficient of the total scale of .87) also confirm the validity of the CFNI for use in the Spanish population.

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Dutta, Dipmala, and Polly Vauquline. "Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies Research Centre, Gauhati University: A Struggle for Space and Identity." Space and Culture, India 6, no. 1 (June 28, 2018): 16–28. http://dx.doi.org/10.20896/saci.v6i1.321.

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Institutionalisation of Women’s Studies (WS) in India although started in the 1970s, it took a decade further to cross the threshold of Northeastern States. The isolation which the Northeast of India has always faced in the social, economic and political spheres was also reflected in the case of establishment of the Women’s Studies Centres as the then Vice Chancellor Dr. Deba Prasad Barooah had to struggle against the University Grants Commission for establishing it in Gauhati University. Again, the narrative of WSRC, GU do not find mention in the book Narratives from Women's Studies Family: Recreating Knowledge where experiences of 17 centres from across the country are illustrated. This paper investigates all such structural difficulties, negligence and struggle faced by one of the first Women’s Studies Centre of Northeast India, established in Gauhati University (GU), since its conceptualisation to inception in 1989 till the present. It attempts in revealing the experiences of the Directors, yielding the efforts behind the setting up of the centre, the role played by different individuals both internal and external of the University towards the establishment of the Centre, the catalysts that prevented the premature decay of the Centre and most importantly the struggle for space, identity and recognition the constraints faced to obtain them. To achieve these goals oral history method was applied to explore the experiences of the previous directors and the author (2nd author) herself. The narratives illustrate the history of struggles, challenges and the subsequent development over a span of more than twenty five years. The paper documents the support the University provided despite being a patriarchal institution for fostering of the WSRC, which in gradual years took steps to produce the Department of Women’s Studies. It will also look into the progressive role Women’s Studies played not only in the varsity internally but also at the external front through research and advocacy by inducing new panoramic view towards and discussion of women’s issues in a multidimensional framework.

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Saeed, Ahmad, Khan Bakhtiar, and Khalid Ijaz. "Encouraging Trends of Women’s Politics in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa." Global Social Sciences Review I, no. II (December 30, 2016): 59–73. http://dx.doi.org/10.31703/gssr.2016(i-ii).05.

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Modern democratic age is based on the philosophy of |ONE-MAN ONEVOTE". Women constitute more than 50% of the world population. Pakistan's Constitution of 1973 has guaranteed women's political rights, equally with men. The general elections of 2002 and 2008 witnessed greater women political participations compared to the elections of 20th Century. The 9/11 incident and un-natural death of Benazir Bhutto left society plagued with extremism, fundamentalism and terrorism. In many instances, the war on terror crossed 'Durand-Line' and affected Pakistan, especially Khyber Pakhtunkhwa and FATA, where every second family faced causality. Vested interests and international media focused on the region and sketched it from darkness to table of discussion. The reports of FAFEN, IDEA, PILDAT, European Union Observation Mission and Election Commission of Pakistan also acknowledged the truth that political participation of women has accelerated in Pakistan tremendously by means of casting votes, launching elections campaigns and contesting elections on general seats.

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Robinson, Nova. "Arab Internationalism and Gender: Perspectives from the Third Session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women, 1949." International Journal of Middle East Studies 48, no. 3 (July 6, 2016): 578–83. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0020743816000544.

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Historians of the Middle East have used gender to explore a range of topics, from how crises around gendered practices have contributed to the construction of national identities to women's roles in nationalist movements. Whereas early gender histories focused on single nation-states, recent scholarship has turned to regional and transnational connections. Yet the international sphere, the domain of nation-states and nongovernmental organizations in relation to each other, has yet to be examined through the lens of gender. In this essay, I argue that doing so yields new insights into the relationship between the national and the international in the Middle East, and into the process of rights claiming in postcolonial nation-states. I make this argument through a discussion of the third session of the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women (UNCSW).

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Hemsworth, M. C. "Life Assurance and the Cohabitant: The Law Commission's Reforms on Privity." Cambridge Law Journal 57, no. 1 (March 1998): 55–62. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0008197300134385.

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In its recent report on privity of contract the Law Commission considered, inter alia, whether reform of section 11 of the Married Women's Property Act 1882 should be entertained at this time. The title of that Act is somewhat misleading but in essence section 11 provides that a life assurance policy on the life of a man or woman for the expressed benefit of his/her spouse and or children, creates a trust in favour of the named spouse or child. Thus the beneficial interest in the policy never forms part of the assured's estate, which result may be of particular importance to the beneficiary in the event of the assured's insolvency because by section 283 of the Insolvency Act 1986 trust assets are expressly excluded from the bankrupt's estate capable of vesting in the trustee in bankruptey and thereafter being available for distribution to creditors.

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Destemi, Sutri, and Hartati Hartati. "Pendidikan politik perempuan dalam menghadapi pemilihan kepala daerah Provinsi Jambi tahun 2020." Unri Conference Series: Community Engagement 2 (December 30, 2020): 265–68. http://dx.doi.org/10.31258/unricsce.2.265-268.

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We continue to pursue various breakthroughs through affirmative policies and strengthening the role of women in politics. One of these efforts can be seen through the application of the Election Law which requires the involvement of women at least 30 percent as legislative candidates for political parties. This policy is explicitly translated by the General Election Commission (KPU) in KPU regulation Number 7/2013 which states that political parties that cannot meet these requirements cannot qualify as election participants. However, at the implementation stage the level of women's participation in politics is still low. Political parties have not been able to produce reliable female cadres. The basic assumption behind this is that political education for women in Indonesia is not sufficient to open political awareness. The method used in this service is community empowerment through political education for women's groups / organizations / communities in Pijoan Village. The function of political education is not only the role of Political Parties but also transfers to all levels of society, especially the educational environment and academics. Therefore, this service is expected to be able to increase public awareness, especially women, to actively participate in the upcoming regional head elections for Jambi province. Based on the results of the survey carried out after the service, the participants received motivation to be more active in various activities such as organizations and in government and political activities.

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Price, Alison, and Lisa McMullan. "We don't need no education: the role of mentoring in the wider enterprise eco‐system." International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship 4, no. 2 (June 22, 2012): 196–205. http://dx.doi.org/10.1108/17566261211234670.

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PurposeThe purpose of this paper is to explore the role of mentoring in the wider enterprise eco‐system, with a specific focus on the potential of on‐line mentoring for women's enterprise.Design/methodology/approachThe paper offers insights into the approach adopted in taking mentoring experience and practice into a new field as part of a European Commission‐funded project.FindingsFindings to date highlight the need for support amongst women entrepreneurs, across a range of business sectors, in planning for and pursuing business growth. More specifically, the need for bespoke support and advice is highlighted, given that entrepreneurs are not a homogenous group and in light of the additional barriers that women encounter in business start‐up and growth.Originality/valueThe paper describes what is considered to be a unique programme being delivered in the UK, with findings holding wider applicability for policy makers, business support organisations and practitioners across jurisdictions.

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Sijapati, Dipendra Bikram. "Local Election of Nepal 2017: An Overview of Gender Inclusion Prospective." Journal of Population and Development 1, no. 1 (November 27, 2020): 22–32. http://dx.doi.org/10.3126/jpd.v1i1.33101.

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Gender refers to the socially constituted relations between men and women. It focuses on power relations, roles and challenges along with the existing women's subordination in the society. Gender Inclusiveness is additional diverse activity and process of local governments, local institutions like Ward, Rural Municipality, District Coordination Committee and Municipality with self-reliant local governance and sustainable and effective service providing agencies. This article based on the objective to highlight the existing variation of women's inclusion in local governments among developed and developing countries. It analyses the provisions regarding inclusion addressed in the federal Constitution of Nepal in local elections. This paper widely covers concept, definition, theories, practice, situation, laws, policies and program at all levels. The paper is based on secondary sources of information, data published by Election Commission 2017, in Nepal. The raw data are analysed using the Excel spread program on computer and are calculated in frequency distribution and percentage to make its meaningful analysis. Data are carefully analysed and interpreted for generalization. The gender inclusion in local government is gradually increasing. As in national election 2017, the female elected members in local government are almost 40 percent in the districts of Nepal and the data is more than allocated (33%) by the Constitution of Nepal 2015 and election manifestos of different political parties. All the acts, policies and constitutions also emphasized the gender inclusion in all sector of Nepalese government.

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Laville, Helen. "Protecting difference or promoting equality? US Government approaches to women's rights and the UN Commission on the Status of Women, 1945–50." Comparative American Studies An International Journal 5, no. 3 (September 2007): 291–305. http://dx.doi.org/10.1179/147757007x228190.

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Miroff, Bruce. "Movement Activists and Partisan Insurgents." Studies in American Political Development 21, no. 1 (March 2007): 92–109. http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0898588x07000132.

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On the opening day of the 1972 Democratic convention, the women's caucus gave George McGovern a standing ovation. Its first meeting was packed, with 700 female delegates in attendance, exuberant over their numbers at the convention—triple the representation from four years earlier—and their new clout in presidential politics. Of all of the presidential candidates appearing, only Shirley Chisholm, the first African-American woman to run for president, was greeted with enthusiasm comparable to the warm reception for McGovern. Most of the women at the meeting were fervently anti-war and respected McGovern for his early and courageous stance on Vietnam. However, the size of the gathering attested to another of McGovern's achievements: his chairing of the reform commission that had rewritten the Democratic Party's rules on delegate selection, leading to the huge leap in the representation of women. As Liz Carpenter, a former White House aide to LBJ, put it when introducing McGovern, “We know we wouldn't be here if it hadn't been for you.”

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