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WHYY - PBS - NJ Spotlight, Sadaf Jaffer, First Muslim Woman to serve as US Mayor, NJ Spotlight, May-19

From her website: Sadaf Jaffer is a scholar, activist, and elected official. Dr. Jaffer is a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Princeton University…

Tags: Islam, Mayor, New Jersey, Pakistani-American, South Asia, Women

US House of Representatives, Judy Chu, US House of Representatives, Jan-14

From Wikipedia: Judy Chu is an American politician and the U.S. Representative for California's 27th congressional district, serving in Congress since…

Tags: California, Chinese-American, Education, House of Representatives, Women

Chris McAndrew, Tanni Grey-Thompson, Athlete and Charity Patron, UK Parliament, Mar-18

From Wikipedia: Tanni Grey-Thompson is a Welsh politician, television presenter and former wheelchair racer. Grey-Thompson was born with spina bifida…

Tags: Athletes, Charity, Disabled, Parliament, UK, United Kingdom, Women

US Congress, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, First Cuban-American to serve in US Congress (House of Reps.), US Congress, 2017

From Biography: Born in Cuba in 1952 and later immigrating to the United States at age eight, Ros-Lehtinen grew up with an anti-Castro activist father…

Tags: Cuba, Florida, Hispanic-American, House of Representatives, LGBT, Women

US House Office of Photography, Kyrsten Sinema, First Openly Bisexual Person elected to US Senate, US Congress, August of 2018

From Wikipedia: Kyrsten Sinema is an American politician serving as the senior United States Senator from Arizona since 2019. A member of the…

Tags: Arizona, House of Representatives, LGBT, US Senator, Women

National Museum of American History, For Your Country's Sake Today – For Your Own Sake Tomorrow, National Museum of American History., 1944

This poster, created by Steele Savage in 1944, appealed to the patriotism of women aged 20 to 35 to prompt them to enlist in the Women's Army Corps,…

Tags: Campaign, Patriotism, Posters, War, Women, World War II

The Straus Historical Society, Lina Gutherz Straus (1854-1930), The Straus Historical Society, Circa 1900s

Lina Gutherz Straus (1854-1930) was the wife of Nathan Straus and his true partner, who championed his life's work, supported him through his bouts of…

Tags: Jerusalem, Lina Straus, Milk, Milk Pasteur, Palestine, Straus Family, Women, Zionism

UN Women, UN Women, UN Women, 2015

In July 2010, the United Nations General Assembly created UN Women, the United Nations Entity for Gender Equality and the Empowerment of Women. In…

Tags: Empowerment, Gender Equality, Guidelines, UN Women, United Nations, Women

Salem News, Unsung Heroine Program, Salem News, 2012

Victoria Budson, left, chairwoman of the Massachusetts Commission on the Status of Women, meets with Kimberly Flynn at the end of the Unsung Heroines…

Tags: Massachusetts, Mental Illness, Safety, Unsung Heroines, Victoria Budson, Women, Workers

Library of Congress, YWCA Building for Health: Bureau of Social Education, Library of Congress, 1918

Poster showing a woman, full-length, seated, holding a baby, blue triangle with caduceus in the background. The YWCA (Young Women's Christian…

Tags: Anti-Racism, Domestic Violence, Nonprofits, UK, Women, Women's Growth, Young Women's Christian Association, YWCA