The Inter-Allied Women's Conference opened in Paris on 10 February 1919, several weeks after the start of the Paris Peace Conference, the meeting of the victorious Allies of World War I to set peace terms for the Central Powers. The women's conference was convened after the war to introduce women's issues to the process. On 18 January Marguerite de Witt-Schlumberger, vice-president of the International Woman Suffrage Alliance, asked Woodrow Wilson, the U.S. president, to allow women to participate in the discussions that would inform the treaty negotiations. After first being rebuffed, suffragists were allowed to make a presentation before the Commission on International Labour Legislation, and on 10 April a resolution was presented to the League of Nations Commission. Though the women failed to achieve many of their aims, they gained the right for women to serve in the League of Nations organisation.
Read more: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inter-Allied_Women%27s_Conference> _______________________________ Today's selected anniversaries: 1655: The court of Northampton County, Virginia, issued a ruling that made John Casor the first person of African descent in the Thirteen Colonies to be declared a slave for life as a result of a civil suit. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Casor> 1963: The Ba'ath Party came to power in a coup d'état by a clique of quasi-leftist Syrian Army officers calling themselves the National Council for the Revolutionary Command. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1963_Syrian_coup_d%27%C3%A9tat> 1978: BBC Radio 4 began broadcasting Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, a science fiction radio series that was later adapted into novels, a television series, and other formats. <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Hitchhiker%27s_Guide_to_the_Galaxy_%28radio_series%29> _____________________________ Wiktionary's word of the day: muliebrity: 1. (literary) The state or quality of being a woman; the features of a woman's nature; femininity, womanhood. 2. (literary) The state of attainment of womanhood following maidenhood. 3. (physiology) The state of puberty in a female. <https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/muliebrity> ___________________________ Wikiquote quote of the day: The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience. --Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. <https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Oliver_Wendell_Holmes,_Jr.> _______________________________________________ Wikipedia Daily Article mailing list. To unsubscribe, visit: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/daily-article-l Questions or comments? Contact [email protected]
