SEC Launches Probe of Pre-IPO Tech Stock Sales Transactions. What started as an action against a single company in late June has evolved into a probe of an entire industry.
Women's Rights Movements. The American women's rights movement is usually dated from the convention held in Seneca Falls, New York, in 1848 to discuss the Social, Civil, and Religious Condition of Woman..
The effort by women to achieve the right to vote is known as the womenâs suffrage movement. Its founder in Canada was Dr. Emily Stowe, the first Canadian woman to practise medicine in Canada. In 1916, Manitoba became the first province to grant voting rights to women.