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Albert Cashier

Albert D. J Cashier lived from December 25, 1843 to October 10, 1915. Cashier was a , born Jennie Irene Hodgers in Ireland.Spalding, Peg. “Union Maid”. http://history.alliancelibrarysystem.com/IllinoisAlive/files/iv/htm2/ivtxt018.cfm. Retrieved 2007-12-13. Table of Contents 1 Early Life 2 Army 3 Post-Army 4 Death 5 References 6 See Also Early Life Cashier was born in Clogherhead, County Louth, […]

Alfred Kinsey

Alfred Kinsey (June 23, 1894-August 25 1956) was an American biologist whose research on human sexuality revolutionised popular understanding of sexual desire and impulse in both men and women. Table of Contents 1 Education and Early Career 2 ‘Father of Sexology’ 3 Controversy 4 Sources Education and Early Career Kinsey was born in New Jersey, […]

All India Democratic Women’s Association

The All India Democratic Women’s Association (AIDWA) is an independent left oriented women’s organisation with stated aims of achieving democracy, equality and women’s emancipation. It has an organizational presence in 22 states in India, with a current membership of more than 9 million. About two-thirds of the organisation’s strength is derived from poor rural and […]

All-Women Colleges

Women’s colleges were founded in the nineteenth-century when efforts were made to expand educational opportunities for women. Universities were not open to women, thus creating a glass ceiling for young women who wanted to pursue higher studies. Many women’s colleges in the nineteenth-century were private foundations or established through religious institutions (notably the Catholic Church […]

Alysa Stanton

Alysa Stanton (born c. 1964) is an African-American Jew. On June 6, 2009, she was ordained the first African-American female rabbi. Education Stanton was raised a Pentecostal Christian. She grew up in Cleveland, Ohio, and Denver, Colorado. In her first career, Stanton was a psychotherapist She specialized in grief counseling, and was asked to speak […]

Amartya Sen

Amartya Kumar Sen CH (Hon) (born 3 November 1933), is a Bengali Indian economist, philosopher, and a winner of the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1998, “for his contributions to welfare economics” for his work on famine, human development theory, welfare economics, the underlying mechanisms of poverty, and political liberalism. Table of Contents […]

Amelie Noether

Amalie Emmy Noether was born on 23 March 1882 in Erlangen, . She was a mathematician known for her groundbreaking contributions to abstract algebra and theoretical physics, and was described by Albert Einstein and others as the most important woman in the history of mathematics. Table of Contents 1 Education 2 Career 1908-1920 3 Work […]

América Latina Genera. A commitment to knowledge as driving force for change.

Table of Contents 1 Background 2 Entering the city of knowledge 3 Newsletters 3.1 2012 3.2 2011 3.3 2010 4 Contact details Background Information and knowledge. Connecting, sharing, exchanging, showing, developing new skills and knowledge to promote gender equality in Latin America and the Caribbean. The “América Latina Genera, knowledge management for gender equality” regional […]

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Amnesty International

Amnesty International is a worldwide movement of people who campaign for internationally recognized human rights for all.  A , Amnesty works to improve through campaigning and international solidarity. Amnesty has more than 2.2 million members and subscribers in more than 150 countries and regions which are coordinated to act for justice on a wide range […]

Angela Davis

Table of Contents 1 Angela Davis 2 Early Life, Education, and Teaching 2.1 Birmingham and “Dynamite Hill” 2.2 Educational and Philosophical Influences 2.3 Time as a teacher at the University of California, Los Angeles 3 Activism and Imprisonment 3.1 The Soledad Brothers and the Marin County Courthouse incident 3.2 “Free Angela Davis” 4 Current Activism […]

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