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Timeline of women's education
Timeline of women's education: from 1835 coeducational US colleges and 1848 Seneca Falls, through Title IX (1972) and the 1995 Beijing Declaration, to 2009 global school parity, women's tertiary majority, and the Afghan ban since 2021.
Vilma Espín
Vilma Espín Guillois (1930–2007), Cuban revolutionary and chemical engineer, Frank País's lieutenant in the July 26 Movement underground, founder and lifelong president of the Federation of Cuban Women, and Raúl Castro's wife.
Weinstein effect
Weinstein effect: wave of sexual misconduct accusations, dismissals, and legal action following the October 2017 Harvey Weinstein exposés and viral #MeToo movement, distinct from Tarana Burke's earlier 2006 Me Too campaign.
Women Against State Pension Inequality
WASPI (Women Against State Pension Inequality) is a UK campaign group founded in 2015 seeking compensation for 3.6 million 1950s-born women over inadequate notice of State Pension age increases; the 2024 Ombudsman report found maladministration, but the government rejected compensation.
Women in India
Women in India: status, history, and rights of Indian women. Covers the century-old women's movement, the 2023 one-third parliamentary seat reservation, female LFPR rising to 40% in 2025, the 2025 Labour Codes, and STEM participation gains.
Women in Pakistan
Women in Pakistan: 48% of the population, 49% female literacy, 21–25% labour-force participation, WBL score 42.5. Covers law, education, economy, politics, Benazir Bhutto, WAF, and child marriage.
Women in Russia
Women in Russia: their legal status, work, political representation, domestic violence, and reproductive rights under Soviet legacy and current restrictive laws, with key statistics.
Women in Vietnam
Women in Vietnam make up 50.1% of the population. They benefit from strong legal frameworks, but they still face challenges like son preference and underrepresentation in leadership.
Women's empowerment
Women's empowerment, or the empowerment of women, is the process by which women gain agency over their lives, resources, and opportunities, a goal of UN policy since the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action.
Women's Equality Party
The Women's Equality Party (WEP) was a British feminist party founded in 2015 by Catherine Mayer and Sandi Toksvig, led by Sophie Walker then Mandu Reid, peaking near 60,000 members, and voluntarily deregistered on 31 December 2024.
Women's History Month
Women's History Month is the annual U.S. March observance honoring women's contributions, begun as Women's History Week under President Carter in 1980, expanded by Congress in 1987, and proclaimed annually since 1995.
Women's liberation movement
The women's liberation movement was the radical grassroots wing of second-wave feminism from the late 1960s, known for consciousness-raising groups, the 1968 Miss America protest, the 1970 Women's Strike for Equality, and Black, lesbian, and socialist feminist currents.
Women's movement literature
Women's movement literature (Frauenliteratur, Emanzipationsliteratur) is the body of texts produced by and for the second-wave women's movement in German-speaking Europe from the late 1960s through the 1980s.
Women's rights
Women's rights: human rights and legal entitlements of women and girls, grounded in the 1948 UDHR and CEDAW (1979, 189 states parties), plus regional instruments, tracked by indices such as the Global Gender Gap Index.
Women's rights in Iran
Women's rights in Iran cover the legal status of Iranian women, whose advocacy spans the Pahlavi era and Islamic Republic, including the 2022 "Woman, Life, Freedom" protests.
YesAllWomen
YesAllWomen (#YesAllWomen) is a feminist Twitter hashtag created May 24, 2014, by @gildedspine after the Isla Vista killings, countering #NotAllMen; over one million tweets in days made it a 2014 top-ten hashtag and a precursor to #MeToo.