Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi
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Fatima bint Mubarak Al Ketbi, or Sheikha Fatima, is the widow of the former Sheikh Zayed, the founder and first president of the United Arab Emirates. Sheikha Fatima is affectionately known as the “Mother of the UAE” among the country’s citizens. She is best known for her lifelong promotion of women’s rights, both in her own country and around the Arab world. In 1975, Sheikha Fatima formed the UAE Women’s Federation, of which she still heads. This council focused on civil rights and education for women and girls throughout the UAE.
In the early 1990’s Sheikha Fatima pushed for the inclusion of women into the Federal National Council of the Emirates (the UAE’s parliamentary council). While she is less in the public eye nowadays, she still finds ways to aid women in the region. One such example is the Sheikha Fatima Award for Excellence which offers tuition rewards to phenomenally successful girls in the Arab world and India. Sheikha Fatima has spent her entire life both in service of her country and even more so in service of women everywhere.
Gulf News
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UAE
2016
Gulf News
UAE
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fatima_bint_Mubarak_Al_Ketbi">Wikipedia</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://wil.insightsme.net/2015/10/05/hh-sheikha-fatima-bint-mubarak/">Women in Leadership</a> <br /><br /><a href="https://gulfnews.com/uae/government/book-celebrates-shaikha-fatima-bint-mubaraks-achievements-1.1697147">Gulf News</a>
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English & Arabic
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Women, International, UAE, Women's Rights, Education, Arab World
United Arab Emirates
Masuda Sultan, Advocate and Entrepreneur
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From Wikipedia: Masuda Sultan is an Afghan American entrepreneur and international human rights advocate. She is the author of My War at Home, a memoir reflecting on her life as an Afghan American, in which she speaks of conflicts arising from her need for independence in the scheme of Afghan traditional culture, for example, her arranged marriage with an Afghan man. She is one of the founders of Women for Afghan Women. Masuda returned to Afghanistan in December 2001 and learned that 19 members of her family were killed in an October 2001 US air raid. Working with the families of 9/11 victims including Rita Lasar, the sister of Abe Zelmanowitz, Masuda lobbied the U.S government to appropriate aid for civilian victims of bombings in Afghanistan. In 2002, Senator Leahy championed the "Afghan Civilian Assistance Program", a USAID program to assist families and communities mistakenly bombed during US military operations in Afghanistan. The program set a historical precedent for civilian casualties inflicted due to errors in war. (from SALT): Masuda Sultan is founder and CEO of Symbio Services. Her business ventures include projects in education, media, defense, manufacturing, and telecommunications in Afghanistan and real estate in the United Arab Emirates.
SALT
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SALT
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SALT
<a href="https://www.salt.org/bio-sultan-masuda">SALT</a>
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masuda_Sultan">Wikipedia</a>
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English
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Afghan-American. Entrepreneur. Women. War, Advocacy.
United States
Frances Willard, Women's Suffragist
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Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left.<br /> <br />Frances Elizabeth Caroline Willard (1839 – 1898) was an American educator, temperance reformer, and women's suffragist. Her influence was instrumental in the passage of the Eighteenth (Prohibition) and Nineteenth (Women Suffrage) Amendments to the United States Constitution. Willard became the national president of the World's Woman's Christian Temperance Union, or WWCTU, in 1879, and remained president for 19 years. She developed the slogan "Do everything" for the women of the WCTU to incite lobbying, petitioning, preaching, publication, and education. Her vision progressed to include federal aid to education, free school lunches, unions for workers, the eight-hour work day, work relief for the poor, municipal sanitation and boards of health, national transportation, strong anti-rape laws, and protections against child abuse
Library of Congress
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Library of Congress
Source: Frances Willard (suffragist). (2012, October 9). In Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Retrieved 17:25, October 12, 2012, from <a href="http://bit.ly/SV7Kfi">http://bit.ly/SV7Kfi</a>
For further exploration please visit <a href="http://www.franceswillardhouse.org/">http://www.franceswillardhouse.org/</a><br /><br />Link: <a href="http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/ggbain.02864">Library of Congress</a>
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English
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Frances Willard, Women, Women's Rights, Women's Suffrage, Education, Unions, Consumer Protection
Historic
Mary Eliza Mahoney, First African American Nurse 1845-1926
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Mary Mahoney was the first African-American woman to study and work as professionally trained nurse. Born in Massachusetts, she was a hospital worker before entering training and receiving a diploma in 1879 from the nursing school of the New England Hospital for Women and Children. Trained nurses were a relatively new institution then, but standards were rigorous, and only four of 18 women who started the course with Mahoney graduated. Her high level of performance thwarted racial bias and paved the way for other African-American women to enter the profession. Mahoney developed a successful career as a private duty nurse and as one of the few early African-American members of the American Nurses Association, she was an active member of the National Association of Colored Graduate Nurses. A longtime advocate of woman suffrage, Mahoney is believed to be one of the first women to register and vote in Boston following passage of the 19th Amendment. The Mary Mahoney Award of the American Nurses Association honors significant contributions to race relations.
Honored by the National Womens Hall of Fame 1993
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HCR Home Care
Late 1800s
HCR Home Care
Source: <a href="http://www.womenofthehall.org/inductee/mary-mahoney/">National Women's Hall of Fame</a>, Retrieved Oct 15, 2012
<a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Eliza_Mahoney">Wikipedia</a>
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Mary Mahoney, African-Americans, Nursing, Women, Women's Rights
Historic