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Feminism has altered predominant perspectives in a wide range of areas within Western society, ranging from culture to law. Feminist activists have campaigned for women's legal rights (rights of contract, property rights, voting rights); for rights to bodily integrity and autonomy, for abortion rights, and for reproductive rights (including access to contraception and quality prenatal care); for protection from domestic violence, sexual harassment and rape; for workplace rights, including maternity leave and equal pay; and against other forms of discrimination.
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An actual "Rosie the Riveter" operating a hand drill in 1943 at Vultee-Nashville, Tennessee, working on an A-31 Vengeance bomber. Rosie the Riveter has been an important cultural icon in the United States since World War II, when many women assisted the war effort by entering the workforce to perform jobs left behind by men enlisted in the armed forces. It was during World War II that women contributed significantly to factory and construction jobs—typically associated with men—across the United States.
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- 2 November 1938 – First woman awarded the Hero of the Soviet Union, Marina Raskova (pictured) was a Soviet aviator known as the "Russian Amelia Earhart" who helped found three female air regiments for World War II
- 2 November 2004 – Theo van Gogh murdered by Mohammed Bouyeri over the movie Submission, written by the feminist Ayaan Hirsi Ali, which attacked Koranic verses allowing the abuse of Muslim women.
- 3 November 1793 – Guillotining of Olympe de Gouge, playwright and journalist who demanded equal rights for women during the French Revolution in her Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
- 18 November 1872 – Susan B. Anthony was arrested and fined for voting in a presidential election—a fine she refused to pay for the rest of her life
- 28 November 1893 – Women voted for the first time in New Zealand
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- ...that Elsa Eschelsson, the first woman both to finish a doctorate in Law and to teach in a university in Sweden, was denied the right to serve even as acting professor because of her sex?
- ...that in March 2007, Agnes Devanadera (pictured) became the 41st and first woman Solicitor General of the Philippines?
- ...that Cecilia Krieger, who translated the work of Sierpiński into English, was the first woman to receive a Ph.D in mathematics in Canada?
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