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all-women shortlist — Intended as a temporary expedient, the policy of all women shortlists was introduced by the Labour Party to guarantee the selection of women as parliamentary candidates and thereby boost female representation in the House of Commons. The… … Glossary of UK Government and Politics
All female band — All female bands (commonly known as all women bands, all girl bands or girl bands) are musical groups in which females sing and play all the instruments. They are distinct from girl groups,Dubious|Terminology|date=March 2008 in which the females… … Wikipedia
Women's suffrage in the United Kingdom — Women were not formally prohibited from voting until the 1832 Reform Act and the 1835 Municipal Corporations Act. Both before and after 1832 establishing women s suffrage on some level was a political topic, although it would not be until 1872… … Wikipedia
Women's Institutes — Women s Institute serving refreshments at a Saint George s Day event in Rochester, Kent The Women’s Institute is a British, community based organisation for women. It was formed in 1915 with two clear aims: to revitalise rural communities and to… … Wikipedia
Women's music — (or womyn s music, wimmin s music) is the music by women, for women, and about women (Garofalo 1992:242). The genre emerged as a musical expression of the second wave feminist movement (Peraino 2001:693) as well as the labor, civil rights, and… … Wikipedia
Women in Cuba — have equal constitutional rights as men in the economic, political, cultural and social fields, as well as in the family. According to article 44 of the Cuban Constitution, the state guarantees women the same opportunities and possibilities as… … Wikipedia
Women's colleges in the Southern United States — refers to undergraduate, bachelor s degree granting institutions, often liberal arts colleges, whose student populations consist exclusively or almost exclusively of women. Salem College is the oldest female educational institution in the South… … Wikipedia
Women — Women have played a vital role in the economic life of Brussels since the origins of the city. They provided a core element of the workforce in the cloth trade, and, later, in other luxury industries, notably lace production. In the 19th… … Historical Dictionary of Brussels
Women in Uganda — Women s roles were clearly subordinate to those of men, despite the substantial economic and social responsibilities of women in Uganda s many traditional societies. Women were taught to accede to the wishes of their fathers, brothers, husbands,… … Wikipedia
Women Pleased — is a late Jacobean era stage play, a tragicomedy by John Fletcher that was originally published in the first Beaumont and Fletcher folio of 1647.Date and performanceThe play s date is uncertain; it is usually assigned to the 1619 ndash;23 period… … Wikipedia
