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Women's Rights & Issues

niyad

(113,306 posts) Thu Feb 7, 2013, 12:09 PM Feb 2013

today in women's herstory

February 7
This Day in Women's History

1832: Hannah Whitall Smith born

1859: Emma Nevada born

1867: Laura Ingalls Wilder born

1871: Ethel Perrin born

1888: Dame Edith Evans born (actress)

1898: Frances Willard died (reformer, WCTU president, suffragist)

1918: Ruth Sager born

1926: Negro History Week celebrated for the first time — forerunner of Black History Month

1931: Amelia Earhart and George Putnam married

1971: Women win voting rights in Switzerland ( story)

http://womenshistory.about.com/od/02calendar/a/0207calendar.htm

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today in women's herstory (Original Post) niyad Feb 2013 OP

Wow, Had no idea that Swiss women's suffrage was so late in the game. n/t Gormy Cuss Feb 2013 #1

astonishing, isn't it? niyad Feb 2013 #2

"kinder, kirche und kuche' (children, church and kitchen) Gormy Cuss Feb 2013 #3

Gormy Cuss

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1. Wow, Had no idea that Swiss women's suffrage was so late in the game. n/t

Reply to niyad (Original post)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 02:05 PM

Feb 2013

niyad

(113,306 posts)

2. astonishing, isn't it?

Reply to Gormy Cuss (Reply #1)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 08:55 PM

Feb 2013

Gormy Cuss

(30,884 posts)

3. "kinder, kirche und kuche' (children, church and kitchen)

Reply to niyad (Reply #2)

Thu Feb 7, 2013, 09:30 PM

Feb 2013

defined the roles for women --in 1971!!!!

The article is interesting. Seems like some of the German-speaking cantons were the conservatives who voted against it even when the majority of the country voted in favor.

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