Women in Society: Achievements, Risks, and ChallengesThe path of women to achieve equal rights has been and remains a deeply uphill climb. The recent Martha Stewart case is a prime example of unfair treatment of women. Here is a women who could lose her business and go to prison for lying. The same act Clinton, Bush and Blair practice on a global scale. If all the Wall Street titans and soliticians went to jail for lying, we would have to build a prison on every street. Women are moving upward in rockets against great resistance. This book presents some of the achievements, risk and challenges women are trying to deal with at the beginning of the 21st century. |
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Working from Within A Comparison of Feminist Intervention in the Bureaucracy in Australia Canada and the United Kingdom Louise Chappell | 81 |
PostCommunism ProNatalism or ProChoice? The Political Context of Womens Reproductive Lives in Central and Eastern Europe Rachel Alsop and J... | 109 |
A Place at the Table? The Representation of Feminist Thought in Contemporary Masculinity Theory Victoria Robinson | 119 |
Womens Achievement in Social Work Academia The Changing Landscape for Deans and Directors Sunday L Di Palma | 135 |
Penetrating the Culture Reflections from a Woman Academic in Engineering Sandra Ingram | 151 |
Nongovernmental Organisations and the Struggle for a New Status for Rural Women in the North western Cameroon Lotsmart N Fonjong | 159 |
Cardiovascular Risk Profile of Menopausal Women Analysis from the Canadian National Population Health Survey Julia Wong and Shirley Wong | 191 |
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Page 2 - June 30, 1925, to fill the vacancy caused by the death of her husband, John Jacob Rogers; sworn in and seated December 7, 1925; reelected to the 70th86Ul Congresses; died in office September 10, 1960.
Page 2 - Reps. Rankin (R-MT) and Patsy Mink (D-HI.) are the only female Members to have served non-consecutive terms Rep Rankin served from 1917-1919 and from 1941-1943. Rep Rankin was also the only Member of Congress to vote against America's entry into both World Wars. Rep. Mink served from 1965-1977. She is also a Member of the 107"1 Congress, having served since September 1990.