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And some more for #IWD2025.
You can these posters in our current exhibition: www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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Who did you update?
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Wow!
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Find out more in our new exhibition:
www.lse.ac.uk/library/what...
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The conferences were huge and brought many issues relating to women to the world stage including migration, peace, decolonisation, nuclear disarmament, racism, Zionism, and neocolonialism.
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The UN proclaimed 1975 to 1985 the Decade for Women. Further conferences were held in Copenhagen in 1980 and Nairobi in 1985, with a follow up conference in Beijing in 1995.
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Campaigning groups in the UK used International Women’s Year to push the government for legislative changes which saw the Sex Discrimination Act and the Equal Pay 1970 come into force on 29 December 1975.
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It’s 50 years since the United Nations declared 1975 International Women’s Year and held an International Conference on Women in Mexico City. 6,000 women of the 8,000 registered attended a parallel meeting of representatives of women’s organisations.
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Glad we could have helped. It's a lovely photograph.
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I would have a look at 'Woman at Home', 'Vanity Fair' and 'Lady's Realm'.
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Should have known!
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Wow! No I haven't seen these before but read about them in the minutes.