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The Center for Women's Global Leadership, [1] [2] [3] based at Rutgers University, was founded in 1989 by Charlotte Bunch, [4] the former executive director and an internationally renowned activist for women's human rights.
Charlotte Anne Bunch (born October 13, 1944) is an American feminist author and organizer in women's rights and human rights movements. [1] [2] [3] Bunch is currently the founding director and senior scholar at the Center for Women's Global Leadership at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, New Jersey. [3]
Girls Leadership Academy of Arizona is an all-girls public charter high school in central Phoenix, Arizona. It is the second all-girls, non-boarding school in the state (the other is private Xavier College Preparatory) and the first public all-girls school in the state. Its facility is shared with the Florence Crittenton of Arizona nonprofit.
Joan C. Williams (born 1952) is an American feminist legal scholar whose work focuses on issues faced by women in the workplace. She currently serves as the Founding Director at the Center for WorkLife Law.
Originally called the "16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence" campaign, it was initiated in 1991 by the first Women's Global Leadership Institute, held by the Center for Women's Global Leadership (CWGL), at Rutgers University. [2] [3] Since 1991, more than 6,000 organizations from approximately 187 countries have participated in the ...
CWGCS, founded in 1978, is the first university-affiliated research center dedicated to women's issues in the United States. [4] Linda Tarr-Whelan, former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Commission on the Status of Women and former deputy assistant to United States President Jimmy Carter, co-founded CWGCS with Nancy Perlman, CWGCS' first executive director.
In 1973, women's studies pioneer Catharine R. Stimpson called for the founding of a national women's studies organization. [9] Discussions took place over the next three years in women’s studies spaces. In 1976, Sybil Weir from San Jose State University called an official meeting for people interested in creating plans for a national ...
Mary Fletcher Benton Scranton (December 9, 1832 – October 8, 1909) was an American Methodist Episcopal Church missionary.She was the first Woman's Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist Episcopal Church representative to Korea [1] and the founder of the Ewha Girls School (Pear Blossom Academy) under Emperor Gojong.