Word: clubwomen
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...from the beginning, there were clubwomen with a more ambitious agenda -- to reform not only themselves but society. Over the years they provided the leadership for the suffragist movement, child-labor reform, conservation, temperance and civil rights. "You have to remember," says Karen Blair, assistant professor of history at Central Washington University, "that until 1920 women didn't have the vote, and this was their only way to have a public voice outside the home...
...game. But now many players stay away, criticizing the operation of the tournament and complaining that they are not taken care of in the grand style to which they are accustomed. Longwood, these tanned young athletes say, seems more like a "project of the month" put on by clubwomen than a serious sporting event...