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The Food Riot of 1917
On the morning of February 20, 1917, an army of some 400 angry mothers climbed the steps of New York City’s City Hall.
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The First Ladies of Game Shows
Female television game show hosts have been few and far between.
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Billie Jean King and the Battle of the Sexes
On September 20, 1973, Bobby Riggs faced off against Billie Jean King in a battle of the sexes.
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Take Our Daughters and Sons to Work Day
Gloria Steinam created Take Our Daughters to Work Day to help show girls that they could do anything.
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Colonial American Fast Food
Let's adventure back to Colonial America—a time of exploration, revolution, taverns and….fast food?
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Divided Legacy
As the South confronted the so-called “woman question” in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the most bitterly contested issue was woman suffrage.
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Coverture: The Word You Probably Don't Know But Should
Coverture is a long-standing legal practice that holds that no female person has a legal identity.
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Votes for Women
The social conventions which bound women exclusively to home and hearth, kept them away from the ballot box prevailed for decades.
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The Evolution of Nursing
Nursing may be the oldest known profession, as some nurses were paid for their services from the beginning.
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