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feminism
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......N.Y., issued a declaration of independence for women, demanding full legal equality, full educational...movement spread rapidly and soon extended to Europe.Little by little, women's demands for higher education, entrance into trades......
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osteoporosis
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......as a preventive measure for women at high risk. Treatment can...replacement therapy for postmenopausal women is effective but has potential...study of more than 36,000 women over 50 that was released in...found that supplements conferred little benefit. Exercise, including......
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Byron, George Gordon Noel Byron, 6th Baron
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......linked with those of several women, notably Viscount Melbourne...young woman with whom he had little in common. She gave birth...Although his many attachments to women are notorious, Byron was actually ambivalent toward women. There is considerable evidence......
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fertility drug
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......from the urine of menopausal women. It contains FSH and LH...from the urine of pregnant women. Its action is similar to...It is used especially in women with polycystic ovary syndrome, who tend to have too little FSH and too much LH. A frequent......
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progressivism
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......most acute. Dedicated men and women of middle-class background...established settlement houses. Led by women such as Jane Addams in Chicago...legislation (especially for women workers), and widows' pensions...turned to national politics. Little headway was made, however......
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Triangle Waist Company
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......Shirtwaist Co., manufacturers of women's cotton and linen blouses...Clothes and hair ablaze, many women jumped to their deaths. Fire companies could do little, as neither water from their...minutes 146 died, nearly all women. The company's owners were......
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Hepburn, Katharine
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......and began playing more interesting women who were also more evenly matched...Among her other outstanding films are Little Women (1933), Alice Adams (1935...into Night (1962), and The Trojan Women (1970). For television she did......
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hockey, field
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......continues to appeal very little to American males. In Olympic...high school and collegiate women in the United States since...the East, it has been a women's Olympic event only since 1980. Rules for men and women are essentially the same......
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Khatami, Mohammad
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......moderates, intellectuals, students, and women. As president, he appointed a relatively...democratization and the advancement of women. He also advocated rapprochement between...and social freedom. His second term was little different from the first, as he generally......
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Alcott, Louisa May
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......achieved wide fame and wealth with Little Women (1868), one of the most popular...Jo March. Good Wives (1869), Little Men (1871), and Jo's Boys...examination of the relationship between two women artists. Another adult volume......