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  2. List of women's organizations - Wikipedia

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    Arab Feminist Union – founded 1945. Associated Country Women of the World – international organization formed in 1933. The Association of Junior League International – Women's development organization founded in 1901. Beta Sigma Phi – founded 1931. Communist Women's International (1920–1930) – established to advance communist ideas ...

  3. Feminist geography - Wikipedia

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    Feminism portal. v. t. e. Feminist geography is a sub-discipline of human geography that applies the theories, methods, and critiques of feminism to the study of the human environment, society, and geographical space. [1] Feminist geography emerged in the 1970s, when members of the women's movement called on academia to include women as both ...

  4. Women in the United States - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. The legal status of women in the United States is, in comparison to other countries, equal to that of men, and women are generally viewed as having equal social standing as well. In the early history of the U.S., women were largely relegated to the home. However, the role of women was revolutionized over the course of the 20th century.

  5. Demographics of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Meanwhile, Black and Asian women saw the number of births decline by 2.4% and 2.5%, respectively, over the same period, while American Indian/Alaskan Native women saw their numbers fall by 3.2%. [57] It also marks the first rise in births since 2014. Prior to this report, the total number of births had been decreasing by an average of 2% per ...

  6. List of Dewey Decimal classes - Wikipedia

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    The Dewey Decimal Classification (DDC) is structured around ten main classes covering the entire world of knowledge; each main class is further structured into ten hierarchical divisions, each having ten divisions of increasing specificity. [1] As a system of library classification the DDC is "arranged by discipline, not subject", so a topic ...

  7. Native Americans in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Of the 3.2 million Americans who identified as American Indian or Alaska Native alone in 2022, around 45% are of Hispanic or Latino ethnicity, with this number growing as increasing numbers of Indigenous people from Latin American countries immigrate to the US and more Latinos self-identify with indigenous heritage. [192]

  8. Mississippian culture - Wikipedia

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    The Mississippian culture was a Native American civilization that flourished in what is now the Midwestern, Eastern, and Southeastern United States from approximately 800 to 1600, varying regionally. It was known for building large, earthen platform mounds, and often other shaped mounds as well. [1] [2] It was composed of a series of urban ...

  9. Piedmont (United States) - Wikipedia

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    The Piedmont / ˈpiːdmɒnt / [1] is a plateau region located in the Eastern United States. It is situated between the Atlantic Plain and the Blue Ridge Mountains, stretching from New York in the north to central Alabama in the south. The Piedmont Province is a physiographic province of the larger Appalachian Highlands physiographic division ...