The school was organized by a committee of Quakers prominent in abolitionist and women's rights movement, notably the activist Lucretia Mott.

After the adoption of the Prostitution Reform Act 2003, several members of a United Nations women's committee that was looking at how New Zealand was keeping its commitment to the Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women ( CEDAW ) criticised the government of New Zealand for decriminalising brothels and pimping and asked it to repeal the new law.

However, the Georgia legislative committee did not pass the debated women's suffrage bill.

We set up a women's committee, an ethnic minorities committee ".

These conventions include meetings for CDA's standing committees ( like the constitution committee ) and CDA's national caucuses ( like the women's caucus ) as well as the elections for CDA's National Executive Board.

A parallel committee sets rules for college women's play.

By removing the women's ability to make the decision and giving it to a committee would be a clear violation of their liberty and security of person.

At the plant she was involved in the women's committee of Local 112.

The sub committees are made up of various departments within the organization, including a technical committee and representative committees of games, women's, legislative, financial, medical, athletic and PR areas.

Many delegates were ex officio delegates, i. e., they received delegate status as a result of their positions on the national executive committee of the party, the executives of its affiliated provincial parties, and the party's national women's and youth organizations.

Out of her concern for women's working conditions, she helped to found the Women's Trade Union League in 1903 and later served as a member of the executive committee of the New York City League.

After a heated debate, the House of Representatives created a committee to deal with women's suffrage in September 1917.

However, the submission failed because committee members felt IRB needed to improve promotion of the women's game.

Although his wife remained the chief of the state DAP women's wing, she was not included in the committee.

In 1905, the 25 member committee was reduced to five, which blocked women's opportunities for direct participation in school policies.

The PCJSS sought to unify and represent all the tribes of the Hill Tracts and also organised a committee of villages, a students and youth wing and a women's wing of the party.

In protest, the women's strike committee headed by Galina Andreeva blocked the Moscow-Chişinău railway line at a waypoint between Bender and Tiraspol, until the arrested were freed by the president of Moldova Mircea Snegur in an attempt to quell the spirits.

In 2009-11, Keohane chaired a committee on undergraduate women's leadership at Princeton University, appointed by President Shirley M. Tilghman.

Western remained an independent women's college until 1970 when it formed a " committee of cooperation " with the adjacent Miami University, which opened enrollment between the colleges on a limited basis.

According to her relatives, Idris served on the Am ' ari refugee camp's women's committee during the first intifada, where she assisted in food distribution at times of curfew, provided social support and helped prisoners ' families.

As technical secretary to the civil and political rights committee of President Kennedy's Commission on the Status of Women ( PCSW ), Eastwood researched decisions involving women and the Fourteenth Amendment, and became increasingly interested in the women's movement.

Among early supporters and members of the first coordinating committee were Kevin Jennings of the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network ( GLSEN ); Kevin Boyer of Gerber / Hart Gay and Lesbian Library and Archives in Chicago ; Paul Varnell, writer for the Windy City Times ; Torey Wilson, Chicago area teacher ; Johnda Boyce, women's studies major at Columbus State University and Jessea Greenman of UC-Berkeley.

Ninotchka Rosca ( born in the Philippines in 1946 ) is a Filipina feminist, author, journalist and human rights activist who is active in AF3IRM, the Mariposa Center for Change, Sisterhood is Global and the initiating committee of the MARIPOSA ALLIANCE ( Ma-Al ), a multi-racial, multi-ethnic women's activist center for understanding the intersectionality of class, race and gender oppressions, toward a more comprehensive practice of women's liberation.

The Beguines were mainly a women's movement and had previously been recognized by the Church since their foundation in the thirteenth century as mystics.

In the meantime, a conservative group broke away from the Presbyterian Church in the United States in 1973, mainly over the issues of women's ordination and a perceived drift toward theological liberalism.

The palatinate, including the male convent, was in the valley, where nowadays the Roman Catholic Church of St Wiperti is situated, while the women's convent was located on the castle hill.

The United Methodist Church, along with some other Protestant churches, holds that when the historical contexts involved are understood, a coherent Biblical argument can be made in favor of women's ordination.

* March 17 – The Relief Society, a philanthropic and educational women's organization of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS ) was founded.

Lois Roden, whom the original Branch Davidian Seventh-Day Adventist Church acknowledged as their teacher / prophet from 1978 to 1986, laid heavy emphasis on women's spirituality and the feminine aspect of God.

Next door to the schoolhouse is the Irvington Methodist Church ; its parsonage is now a women's clothing store, The Dandelion.

The U. S. Congress passed the Edmunds-Tucker Act in 1887, which abolished women's suffrage, forced wives to testify against their husbands, disincorporated the LDS Church, dismantled the Perpetual Emigrating Fund Company, abolished the Nauvoo Legion, and provided that LDS Church property in excess of $ 50, 000 would be forfeited to the United States.

He spent most of his adult life as minister of Newington Green Unitarian Church, where possibly the congregant he most influenced was early feminist Mary Wollstonecraft, who extended his ideas on the egalitarianism inherent in the spirit of the French Revolution to encompass women's rights as well.

In the Early Church, the bishop administered all three sacraments of initiation ( Baptism, Confirmation and Eucharist ), assisted by the priests and deacons and, where they existed, by deaconesses for women's Baptism.

" Church mothers have historically served as the leader of the women's ministries in the local congregations.

In 1962, two women's auxiliary organizations, Woman's Association and Woman's Missionary Society, join together to form the United Church Women ( UCW ).

By 1980, the General Synod of the Reformed Church in America had amended the Book of Church Discipline to clarify their position on women's ordination, including amending the language of Part I, Article 1, Section 3 of the BCO from " persons " to " men and women.

* Relief Society, a philanthropic and educational women's organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

In the United States, the first orphanage was in New Orleans — then French Territory — in 1727 — by the Ursulines, a women's order of the Catholic Church that spun off the work of St. Vincent DePaul, whose fame for the care of orphans is unparalleled in history.

The Relief Society ( RS ) is a philanthropic and educational women's organization and an official auxiliary of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints ( LDS Church ).

A flagship women's college of the Church of England, it was the first college of higher education in the UK to admit women.

The Orthodox Churches follow a similar line of reasoning as the Roman Catholic Church with respect to ordination of priests, and does not allow women's ordination.

* 1957: In 1957 the Unity Synod of the Moravian Church declared of women's ordination " in principle such ordination is permissible " and that each province is at liberty to " take such steps as seem essential for the maintenance of the ministry of the Word and Sacraments ;” however, while this was approved by the Unity Synod in 1957, the Northern Province of the Moravian Church did not approve women for ordination until 1970 at the Provincial Synod, and it was not until 1975 that the Rev.

The women's ordinations were not, however, recognised as being valid by the Roman Catholic Church.