The Women's Political Council (WPC), founded in Montgomery, Alabama, was an organization that formed in 1946 that was an early force active in the civil...

Union Women's Political Council, formed 1946, active in the 1950s Women's Refugee Commission Women's Trade Union League, 1903–1950, encouraging women to...

Civil Rights Movement from Montgomery, Alabama. Burks founded the Women’s Political Council in 1946, which helped initiate the Montgomery Bus Boycott following...

: 9  It was in Montgomery, Alabama, where Robinson joined the Women's Political Council, which Mary Fair Burks had founded three years earlier. The WPC...

decision-making process, political activism, political consciousness, etc. Women in India participate in voting, run for public offices and political parties at lower...

Lebanese Women's Union and the Christian Women's Solidarity Association created the Lebanese Council of Women in 1952 to campaign for women's suffrage...

women's political ambition. Alternatively, framing women's underrepresentation as due to supply factors depresses white and Asian women's political ambition...

was elected its treasurer. On the night of Parks' arrest, the Women's Political Council, led by Jo Ann Robinson, printed and circulated a flyer throughout...

The National Council of Negro Women, Inc. (NCNW) is a nonprofit organization founded in 1935 with the mission to advance the opportunities and the quality...

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The Women's suffrage movement in India fought for Indian women's right to political enfranchisement in Colonial India under British rule. Beyond suffrage...

founded the Women's Political Council (WPC) as a response to discrimination in the Montgomery League of Women Voters, who refused to allow Black women to join...

The Electoral Commission's Register of Political Parties lists the details of political parties registered to contest elections in the United Kingdom,...

postulate the introduction of women's suffrage, because important women's political issues were close to the political agenda of the day: old age and...

female candidates as an organizational and political goal, women are still significantly underrepresented in politics compared to the general population. Canada...

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The Women's Equality Party (WEP) is a feminist political party set up in the United Kingdom in 2015. The idea was conceived by Catherine Mayer and Sandi...

international women's cricket. One of ten teams competing in the ICC Women's Championship (the highest level of international women's cricket), the team...

National Council for Women in Egypt (NCW) is an Egyptian National Council. It is the only national, independent women's machinery in Egypt. The Council was...

Women face widespread discrimination within Bahraini society and the country's political institutions. Women's rights have been a cornerstone of the political...

the Sultanate of Women, women had no chance to serve in any official political post in the Ottoman era. One notable female political activist in the first...

Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th...

The Guardian Council (also called Council of Guardians or Constitutional Council, Persian: شورای نگهبان, romanized: Shourā-ye Negahbān) is an appointed...

Traditionally, women in Singapore played a small role in the country's political scene. Since 1984, Singapore has seen an increase in female representation...

setting up women's committees, 'zhensoviets,' which campaigned for women's emancipation and intervened in cases of violence against women. Alpern-Engel...

headed by women. Women's formal political participation began with the Turkish Republic. A group of women attempted to establish a women's party after...

white passenger on a Montgomery city bus, Jo Ann Robinson of the Women's Political Council and E. D. Nixon of the National Association for the Advancement...

women's status in the UAE and achieving progress on women's rights. Emirati women live under male guardianship. Whereas men can marry multiple women and...

demonstrations by liberal and leftist women, and thousands of women participated in a women's march on International Women's Day, 8 March 1979, in protest against...

inductive power standard Women's Political Council, an Alabama-based organization that was part of the Civil Rights Movement Women's Press Collective, an...