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 * 19th Century Seneca Falls Convention
 * July 19-20, 1848
 * Seneca Falls, New York
 * meeting organized by Quaker women group
 * influenced women's rights
 * lecture on law
 * women in society
 * Presented the Declaration of Sentiments
 * 100 of 300 attendants signed in the convention
 * 1975 Mexico City Conference
 * First World conference on the Status of Women
 * Called for by the United Nations General Assembly
 * Objectives:
 * full gender equality (no gender discrimination)
 * full participation of women in developement
 * Increase contributions of women in the strengthening of world peace
 * 1995 Beijing Conference
 * September 4-15, 1995
 * more thean 5,000 representitives from 2,100 organizations and 189 governments attended
 * Principal themes:
 * advancement and empowerment of women
 * poverty
 * women and desicion making
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">violence against women
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">The Beijing Declaration and Platform for Action was a resulting document
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">(CEDAW) Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">adopted in 1979 by UN
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">"international bill of rights for women"
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">30 articles and preamble
 * <span style="background-color: #fbf9f6; color: #ff0052; font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;">only treaty that affirms reproductive rights of women

* Dr. Mae Jemison ---first African American woman in space * Amelia Earhart--- first woman to receive Distinguished Flying Cross, first pilot to fly alone across Atlantic * Rosa Parks--- "first lady of civil rights" "mother of the freedom movement" ;sparked Montgomery Bus Boycott * Sally Ride--- first American woman in space * Susan B. Anthony--- fought strongly against slavery and for women * Marie Curie--- first woman to win the Nobel Prize * Elizabeth I--- Queen of England *Joan of Arc--- National France hero; led resistance to english invasion of France *Margaret Abbot--- Born in India, first American woman Olympian winner
 * Important women in history: **