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The Women's Joint Congressional Committee was an American coalition of existing women's rights organizations formed after women gained the right to vote...

A congressional committee is a legislative sub-organization in the United States Congress that handles a specific duty (rather than the general duties...

This is a list of Philippine congressional committees (standing committees and special committees) that are currently operating in the Senate of the Philippines...

The Joint Committee on Reconstruction, also known as the Joint Committee of Fifteen, was a joint committee of the 39th United States Congress that played...

29, 1925). "Women working for new laws" (PDF). The New York Times. Retrieved October 4, 2022. The Women's Joint Congressional Committee is a well set...

influence of the Children's Bureau and the newly formed Women's Joint Congressional Committee. Before its passage, most of the expansion in public health...

This is a complete list of U.S. congressional committees (standing committees and select or special committees) that are operating in the United States...

Daughters of the Republic of Texas and chair the De Zavala fund raising committee to negotiate the purchase of the long barracks (convento) that was owned...

the amendment, such as the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, believed that the loss of these benefits to women would not be worth the supposed gain...

through protective legislation, some groups like the Women's Joint Congressional Committee and the Women's Bureau believed the loss of benefits relating to...

Joint Action Committee for Political Affairs (JAC) is a national political action committee that contributes to candidates for the United States Congress...

before women's history and public history emerged as fields of inquiry and action, the UDC, with other women's associations, strove to etch women's accomplishments...

Palace (Hānaiakamalama). The organization was established in 1903 by seven women who were daughters of American Protestant missionaries. Born in Hawaiʻi...

of El Paso Women's City Club of New York (WCC) Woman's Health Protective Association Women's Joint Congressional Committee Young Women's Christian Association...

Constitution giving all women the right to vote. In the beginning, the CU worked within NAWSA to strengthen the declining Congressional Committee. In March 1913...

Young Women's Christian Association (YWCA) is a nonprofit organization with a focus on empowerment, leadership, and rights of women, young women, and girls...

The District of Columbia has no home rule; it is controlled by congressional committees, and Congress at the time was overwhelmingly Democratic. It was...

work and women's suffrage. Two years after its founding, the American WCTU sponsored an international conference at which the International Women's Christian...

admission of the National Association of Colored Women as members of the Women's Joint Congressional Committee, which formed in 1920. She succeeded by January...

Cincinnati is a historical, hereditary lineage organization founded in 1894 by women whose ancestors were officers in George Washington’s army and navy during...