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  • 71Women's Little 500 — The Women s Little 500 is a bicycle race held annually at Bill Armstrong Stadium on the campus of Indiana University Bloomington. The race is modelled after the men s Little 500. The race has been run the Friday before the men s race, since its… …

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  • 72Women in the United States Navy — Pre World War I= Women worked as nurses for the Navy as early as the Civil War. The United States Navy Nurse Corps was officially established in 1908. See United States Navy Nurse Corps for the evolution of the Navy Nurse Corps. World War IThe… …

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  • 73Women's Rest Tour Association — The Women s Rest Tour Association of Boston, Massachusetts comprised a network of middle class members who collected information about travel abroad and shared it among like minded American women who required trustworthy non commercial and… …

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  • 74women’s work — Social concept While the CCP defined women’s liberation as participation in public, productive labour, ‘women’s work’ includes paid and unpaid activities associated with femaleness and women’s roles in homes, factories, state and non state… …

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  • 75women in parliament —    The female suffrage struggle before the First World War led to important reforms in 1918. Among the provisions of the Representation of the People Act was the grant of the vote in Parliamentary elections to all women over thirty (the franchise …

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  • 76Women's Auxiliary Air Force — The Women s Auxiliary Air Force (WAAF), whose members were invariably referred to as Waafs (pronEng|ˈwæfs), was the female auxiliary of the Royal Air Force during World War II, established in 1939. At its peak strength, in 1943, WAAF numbers… …

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  • 77Women and animal advocacy — Several writers have argued that the animal advocacy movement mdash; embracing animal rights, animal welfare, and anti vivisectionism mdash; has been disproportionately initiated and led by women.Many of the major animal advocacy groups, all… …

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  • 78women —    The social position of women has undergone a remarkable change in post Franco Spain. Women hold public office as judges, ambassadors, mayors, government ministers, and university rectors, as well as obtaining jobs in sectors from which they… …

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  • 79women's writing —    Changing social roles and the expanding publishing industry have transformed women s writing and its critical reception in the democratic period. Under Franco, virtually the only woman to feature in post war literary overviews was Carmen… …

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  • 80women’s press —    Over the last forty years, women’s magazines have changed from offering advice to wives and mothers about their families and homes, through the singlegirl sexual revolution of the 1970s, to catering for diverse consumer markets in the 1990s.… …

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