https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Women%27s_rights
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 century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others

https://www.amnesty.org/en/what-we-do/discrimination/womens-rights/
Women's rights are human rights! We are all entitled to human rights. These include the right to live free from violence and discrimination; to enjoy the highest attainable standard of physical and mental health; to be educated; to own property; to vote; and to earn an equal wage. But across the globe many women and girls still face

https://www.ohchr.org/en/topic/gender-equality-and-womens-rights
We promote women and girls' equal enjoyment of all human rights, including freedom from violence, sexual and reproductive rights, access to justice, socio-economic equality, and participation in decision-making. We do this by monitoring and advocating for women's rights, building capacity of stakeholders, and providing technical advice.

https://www.britannica.com/event/womens-movement
Women's rights movement, diverse social movement, largely based in the United States, that in the 1960s and '70s sought equal rights and opportunities and greater personal freedom for women. It coincided with and is recognized as part of the 'second wave' of feminism.

https://www.hrw.org/topic/womens-rights
Despite great strides made by the international women's rights movement over many years, women and girls around the world are still married as children or trafficked into forced labor and sex

https://ourworldindata.org/women-rights
Women's rights are human rights that all women have. But in practice, these rights are often not protected to the same extent as the rights of men. Among others, women's rights include: physical integrity rights, such as being free from violence and making choices over their own body; social rights, such as going to school and participating

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/feature-story/2023/09/the-11-biggest-hurdles-for-womens-equality-by-2030
There are only seven years left for the world to fulfil the promises made to girls and women in the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, and a new report highlights the biggest challenges remaining for global gender equality.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news/stories/2021/10/feature-what-does-gender-equality-look-like-today
A new global analysis of progress on gender equality and women's rights shows women and girls remain disproportionately affected by the socioeconomic fallout from the COVID-19 pandemic, struggling with disproportionately high job and livelihood losses, education disruptions and increased burdens of unpaid care work. Women's health services, poorly funded even before the pandemic, faced

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/03/1147462
The UN Secretary-General on Monday highlighted the urgent need to defend women's rights which are under threat, citing a reversal in hard-won progress, increasing violence against women and a growing digital gender divide.

https://www.unwomen.org/en/news-stories/statement/2022/12/statement-womens-and-girls-human-rights-universal-and-indivisible
In a statement for Human Rights Day on 10 December, UN Women Executive Director Sima Bahous calls to reassert the universality and indivisibility of women's human rights and the human rights of all people.

https://www.globalfundforwomen.org/womens-human-rights/
Global Fund for Women focuses on winning rights for women, girls, and marginalized people. Learn more about what women's human rights are and more, today.

https://www.history.com/topics/womens-history/womens-history-us-timeline
From a plea to a founding father, to the suffragists to Title IX, to the first female political figures, women have blazed a steady trail towards equality in the United States. Explore famous

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_women%27s_legal_rights_in_the_United_States_(other_than_voting)
The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights. It includes actual law reforms as well as other formal changes, such as reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents.

https://www.aclu.org/issues/womens-rights
Today, gender bias continues to create huge barriers for many women. Ongoing struggles include ensuring equal economic opportunities, educational equity, and an end to gender-based violence.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2023/03/1134132
CSW: Advancing women's rights since 1946. Women from a village in the state of Bihar, India, get together for a community meeting. The annual UN Commission on the Status of Women (CSW) meets in March each year to address the widespread inequalities, violence and discrimination women continue to face, all around the world.

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/womens-rights-human-rights-25-years-later
Women's rights advocates have long argued that gender equality should be a human right—but were thwarted for years by those who claimed their rights were subordinate to those of men. During

https://www.archives.gov/women/1964-civil-rights-act
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibited discrimination based on race, religion, color, or national origin in public places, schools, and employment. However, discrimination based on sex was not initially included in the proposed bill, and was only added as an amendment in Title VII in an attempt to prevent its passage.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/05/27/us/abortion-women-tfmr.html
The end of Roe has turned women who terminated pregnancies for medical reasons into a political force.

https://19thnews.org/2024/06/this-cartoonist-wants-to-tell-the-complicated-history-of-womens-voting-rights/
When cartoonist Caitlin Cass started drawing a history of the women's suffrage movement — a project that began in 2019 and eventually turned into her new nonfiction graphic book, "Suffrage Song: The Haunted History of Gender, Race and Voting Rights in the U.S." — she felt the need to acknowledge her "deep and growing anxiety" about White women in this history.

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9xxklr0070o
After the Taliban restricted Afghan women's ability to work, learn and go out in public, some women initially defied these new rules, taking to the streets to protest.

https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2024/06/egypt-release-protesters-and-activists-detained-over-palestine-solidarity/
On 23 April, a group of women's rights defenders took the risk of organizing a peaceful protest in solidarity with women in Palestine and Sudan and chose to hold it in front of the office of UN Women in Cairo. Around 20 women, including human rights defenders, journalists and lawyers, had gathered when minutes later, policemen in plainclothes

https://www.unwomen.org/en/digital-library/multimedia/2021/7/infographic-womens-rights-and-the-law
Infographic: Women's rights and the law. Over 2.5 billion women and girls around the world are affected by discriminatory laws and the lack of legal protections, often in multiple ways. Strong legal frameworks must be put in place to advance gender equality in all areas, and priority must be given to implementing those laws and monitoring their

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/melinda-french-gates-hints-at-presidential-endorsement-urges-women-to-vote/
In an exclusive interview, Melinda French Gates stresses the critical role of women in the 2024 presidential election, revealing her likely endorsement.

https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_gradthes/3324/
Sports historians have demonstrated that the early twentieth century, particularly the 1920s and the 1930s, was a period of both increasing and decreasing opportunities of women to participate in skilled and competitive athletics. Most would agree that a philosophy of anti-competition and universal participation as advocated by the Women's Division of the National Amateur Athletic Federation

https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_graddiss/4260/
The dearth of research on women's female friendships might suggest that a woman's relationships with her girlfriends are less important than her relationships with her partner, children, or parents. Few researchers have focused on the closeness of female friendships despite the fact that those studies that have been conducted have found those friendships to be significant, and over the course

https://www.loc.gov/folklife/civilrights/survey/view_collection.php?coll_id=1418
These clips address a wide range of topics and particularly are focused on civil rights and race relations in Tennessee. There is extensive coverage of the civil rights movement in Knoxville, including the 1960 sit-ins at the lunch counter and 1963 protests at the movie theater.

https://patryan.house.gov/media/press-releases/congressman-pat-ryan-votes-against-extreme-house-bill-would-rip-abortion
WASHINGTON, DC - Today, Congressman Pat Ryan continued his fight to protect the reproductive freedom of women service members, voting against yet another extreme bill that would rip away abortion rights from female soldiers. For the second year in a row, House Republicans added amendments to the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), the

https://www.ohchr.org/en/press-releases/2024/06/israeli-authorities-palestinian-armed-groups-are-responsible-war-crimes
GENEVA (12 June 2024) - Israeli authorities are responsible for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed during the military operations and attacks in Gaza since 7 October 2023, the UN Independent International Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, said in a new

http://elizabethton-gfwc.weebly.com/
The website of the GFWC of Tennessee Elizabethton Women's Club. Here you can find information about membership and our annual crafts show.