Overlooked for decades, the house where the women’s suffrage campaign was launched finally becomes a public landmark.
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Mink, the first woman of color in Congress, brought a racially and historically aware brand of feminism into lawmaking and ran for president in 1972. But women’s history largely overlooks her.
A biography about suffragist Vida Goldstein seeks to reveal her strength and endurance. Sadly, it also reveals how little progress women who seek political power on their terms have made.
More than a fifth of US children were working in 1900, and many Americans saw nothing wrong with that. It took decades of activism and court battles plus economic upheaval to change course.
We now know how the father of New Zealand’s suffrage pioneer died, and it raises fascinating questions about what drove her morally and politically.
A scholar explains why the players are having so much trouble with their equal pay claim.
In 1911, lesbians led the nation’s largest feminist organization. They promoted a diverse and inclusive women’s rights movement.
A passionate crusader for the rights of women and children, Catherine Hay Thomson went undercover to investigate their treatment in public institutions and testified before a Royal Commission.
New Zealand was the first nation to grant women the vote in 1893, but during the pre-war years enduring prejudice against women in politics outweighed any support for women to stand for parliament
Does having children make the goal of fairly dividing work at home more elusive?
In 1921 and now in 2019, the respective resignations of Mary Ellen Smith from B.C. cabinet and Jody Wilson-Raybould and Jane Philpott from federal cabinet have exposed the limits of Canadian liberalism.
Being the media-savvy women that they were, suffragists realized they needed to come up with a meaningful, recognizable brand.
The early suffragists would be rolling in their graves to know that women joining the ranks of parliamentarians barely changed their male colleagues’ outlook and demeanour at all.
The kind of climate action outlined by the ubiquitous climate checklists won’t be enough.
125 years ago today women in New Zealand were the first to win the right to vote. Why did this global first happen in a small and isolated corner of the South Pacific?
Emmeline Pankhurst’s youngest daughter fought for women’s right to vote, but she’s more problematic to commemorate.
With many men ‘missing’ from the population in the aftermath of the 1918 flu, women stepped into public roles that hadn’t previously been open to them.
Ireland was quick to elect a woman member of parliament, but it’s been slow going thereafter.
It’s been 100 years since women over 30 won the right to vote in Britain. But that didn’t solve gender injustice – and young people today need feminism more than ever.
A top class female footballer and tragic young soldier who was shot for ‘desertion’ despite fighting in some of WW1’s bloodiest battle fields are two hidden stories of The Great War.
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Professor of History, University of Canterbury
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Professor of History and Professor of Public Engagement, La Trobe University
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Senior Lecturer in Modern Irish History, Queen's University Belfast
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Research Associate, King's College London
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Lecturer in Fine Art, Printmaking, RMIT University
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Associate Dean For Global One Health, College of Veterinary Medicine & Biomedical Sciences; and Director, Pandemic and Biosecurity Policy Program, Scowcroft Institute for International Affairs, Bush School of Government and Public Service, Texas A&M University
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Professor of English and former Academic Director of the Public Humanities Hub, University of British Columbia
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PhD candidate, Durham University
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Senior Research Fellow, Leverhulme Trust Rethinking Petitions project, Durham University
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Director, Vice-Chancellor's Centre of Public Ideas (CoPI) and Donald Horne Professor of History and Public Ideas, University of Canberra
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Professor of Film and Media Arts, Principal Lecturer in Film and Media Production, Sheffield Hallam University
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Barrister and Human Rights Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University
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Research Fellow, American University School of Public Affairs
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Professor of Politics and Director of the Gender Research Centre, University of Bristol, University of Bristol
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Professor of Social Justice, University of Liverpool