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Long-run intergenerational health benefits of women empowerment: Evidence from suffrage movements in the US. [PDF]

open access: yesHealth Econ, 2023
An ongoing body of research documents that women empowerment is associated with improved outcomes for children. However, little is known about the long-run effects on health outcomes. This paper adds to this literature and studies the association between
Noghanibehambari H, Noghani F.
europepmc   +2 more sources

‘Going on with our little movement in the hum drum-way which alone is possible in a land like this’: Olive Schreiner and suffrage networks in Britain and South Africa, 1905–1913 [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
This article explores the letters of South African feminist writer Olive Schreiner (1855–1920) to illuminate connections and tensions between suffrage movements in the imperial metropole and on the colonial periphery. Schreiner's letters shed fascinating
Helen Dampier
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

Women's Enfranchisement and Children's Education: The Long-Run Impact of the U.S. Suffrage Movement

open access: yesSocial Science Research Network, 2016
While a growing literature has shown that empowering women leads to increased short-term investments in children, little is known about its long-term effects.
Esra Kose, Elira Kuka, N. Shenhav
semanticscholar   +3 more sources

ABSENTEEISM IN MODERN LAW: CAUSES AND METHODS OF OVERCOMING IT [PDF]

open access: yesJournal of International Legal Communication, 2023
prism of democracy and legitimacy of parliamentary activity is considered. The relationship between the political and legal culture of the population and the process of forming a clear civic position, civic activism and social responsibility has been ...
Tetiana Frantsuz-Yakovets
doaj   +1 more source

Suffrage scrapbooks and emotional histories of women’s activism

open access: yesWomen's History Review, 2022
This article draws on the scrapbooks made by two suffrage activists: Jane Cobden-Unwin (1851-1947) and Alice Maud Mary Arncliffe Sennett (1862-1936).
Cherish Watton
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Women’s Suffrage and Children’s Education

open access: yesAmerican Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021
While a growing literature shows that women, relative to men, prefer greater investment in children, it is unclear whether empowering women produces better economic outcomes.
Esra Kose, Elira Kuka, N. Shenhav
semanticscholar   +1 more source

“Now Will Someone Kindly Tell Me What Is Her Proper Sphere?” Woman Suffrage, Women’s Political Participation, and the Populist Movement

open access: yesTransatlantica, 2022
This article is a political and cultural history of the role of the Farmers’ Alliance and Populism in the crusade for woman suffrage in the 1880s and 1890s. Women were actively involved in the agrarian insurgency.
Jean-Louis Marin-Lamellet
doaj   +1 more source

Wpływ zmian ustrojowych w Niemczech po I wojnie światowej na skład osobowy sejmów prowincjonalnych na Śląsku

open access: yesOpolskie Studia Administracyjno-Prawne, 2020
The author presents the rules of suffrage that were binding in Zweites Reich (The Second Reich), that is the German Empire, during elections to provincial self-government in Prussia and then compares them with the new election law implemented in the ...
Tomasz Kruszewski
doaj   +1 more source

The Electoral Impact of Newly Enfranchised Groups: The Case of Women’s Suffrage in the United States

open access: yesJournal of Politics, 2020
How do newly enfranchised groups achieve representation of shared interests? I theorize that while suffrage expansion has the potential to sway electoral tides in favor of the newly enfranchised, such effects are conditional on the strength of a social ...
Mona Morgan-Collins
semanticscholar   +1 more source

The Life and Times of Karola Szilvássy, Transylvanian Aristocrat and Modern Woman

open access: yesHungarian Cultural Studies, 2019
In this study Cristian surveys the life and work of Baroness Elemérné Bornemissza, née Karola Szilvássy (1876 – 1948), an internationalist Transylvanian aristocrat, primarily known as the famous literary patron of Erdélyi Helikon and lifelong muse of ...
Réka M. Cristian
doaj   +1 more source

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