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Women in World War I & the Interwar Period

  1. 1907

    • First International Conference of Socialist Women (Germany)

  2. 1910s

    • Margaret Cousins organized Women’s India Association (Ireland & India)

    • Aleksandra Mikhaylovna Kollontay (USSR)

    • Soldaderas (Mexican Revolution)

    • Juliet Lanteri (National Feminist Party, Argentina

  3. 1915 

  4. 1916

    • First Pan-American Child Congress in Buenos Aires

  5. 1919

  6. 1920s

    1. Clara González (Panama)

    2. Violet McNaughton 

    3. Agrarian feminist from Saskatchewan

    4. Elena Torres (Mexico)

  7. 1920:

    • International Women’s Suffrage Association meeting in Geneva, Switzerland

      • Huda Sharawi (Egypt)

    • Japan

    • Ichikawe Fusae

    • Shizue Kato​

  8. 1922: 

    1. Pan-American Women’s Conference(USA)

  9. 1928: 

    • 6th Pan-American Conference (Cuba)

    • Doris Stevens called for equal rights in the Americas

  10. 1930s

    1. Popular Front movement (Spain)

    2. anti-fascist, partnership between communists & Social Democrats

    3. Pan-American feminists

      • Victoria Ocampo (Argentina)​

      • Alicia Moreau (Argentina)

      • Petrona Eyle (Argentina)

  11. League of Nations

    • Marta Vergara (Chile)

    • Paulina Luisi (Uruguay)

    • Halide Edip (Turkish feminist & novelist)

    • Kamaladevi Chattopadhyay (India)

    • Mattel Mogannam (Palestine)

  12. Equal Rights Treaty

    • Drafted by Alice Paul, international version of the Equal Rights Amendment proposed in the USA, 1920s

World War II, Decolonization & the Cold War

  1. 1940s    

  2. 1945

  3. Imperialism & Resistance​

  4. 1950s

    1. International Women’s Day

      1. May 8, 1950

      2. Alimotu Pelewura (Nigeria)

  5. 1960s

    1. ​​Maria Carolina de Jesus (Brazil)

    2. Golda Meir (Israel)

  6. 1970s

    1. Right wing women (Chile)

    2. Sima Walk in the USSR-Afghan War

  7. Women in the non-aligned movement/decolonization

    1. Women’s International Democratic Federation (Asia & Africa)

    2. Djamila Bouhired (Algeria)​

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