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This project addresses the under-representation of content on Wikipedia about women (both real and fictional) and covering women's perspectives. According to Humaniki only 19.66% of English Wikipedia biographies are about women as of 9 October 2023. WikiProject Women also addresses women's works, such as the paintings they created, books they ...
Sister projects. Wikipedia is written by volunteer editors and hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation, a non-profit organization that also hosts a range of other volunteer projects : The above list of the current English language sister projects can be easily duplicated using the { { Wikipedia's sister projects }} template.
The National Organization for Women ( NOW) is an American feminist organization. Founded in 1966, it is legally a 501 (c) (4) social welfare organization. The organization consists of 550 chapters in all 50 U.S. states and in Washington, D.C. [5] It is the largest feminist organization in the United States with around 500,000 members. [6]
Joan Daugherty Chittister, O.S.B. (born April 26, 1936 [1] ), is an American Benedictine nun, theologian, author, [2] and speaker. She has served as Benedictine prioress and Benedictine federation president, president of the Leadership Conference of Women Religious, and co-chair of the Global Peace Initiative of Women .
Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches is a collection of essential essays and speeches written by Audre Lorde, a writer who focuses on the particulars of her identity: Black woman, lesbian, poet, activist, cancer survivor, mother, and feminist. This collection, now considered a classic volume of Lorde's most influential works of non-fiction ...
On May 12, 1857, the 37th Birthday of her friend Florence Nightingale, she opened the New York Infirmary for Indigent Women and Children (the first hospital staffed by women serving women) with her sister, Dr. Emily Blackwell, and Dr. Marie Zakrzewska. In 1868, she founded the Women's Medical College of the New York Infirmary to train other women.
The NCWHS was created in October 2001 by representatives of more than twenty historical sites linked to American women and some twenty others from organizations devoted to preserving women's history; noting that only about 4% of the nation's historic sites interpreted topics in women's history, the founding members aimed to support the efforts ...
Women for Women International (WfWI) is a nonprofit humanitarian organization that provides practical and moral support to female survivors of war.WfWI helps such women rebuild their lives after war's devastation through a year-long tiered program that begins with direct financial aid and emotional counseling and includes life skills (e.g., literacy, numeracy) training if necessary, rights ...