Topic: Women's Health
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1970s
“A very small number of men control all the money and the ideas”: Women Revolutionize Population Programs in the 1970s
Women and technocratic elites clashed at the 1974 World Population Conference. At stake was women’s control over their own bodies.
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1990s
Centering Women’s Rights in the Population Field: The Ford Foundation and Sexual Health in the 1990s
A 1994 meeting moved women’s empowerment front and center for grantmaking in global population.
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1910s
1920s
Legitimizing the Social Sciences: The Laura Spelman Rockefeller Memorial in the 1920s
What began as a philanthropic fund to honor its namesake became an early force in the social sciences.
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![Black-and-white image of an American Red Cross sanitation vehicle](https://s30471.pcdn.co/wp-content/uploads/2019/12/RF_WWI_RedCross-500x500.jpg)
Timeline: American Foundations and the History of Public Health
Key points in the history of American foundations’ engagement with public health.
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1940s
1950s
Funding a Sexual Revolution: The Kinsey Reports
The inside story of the study that first questioned binary sexuality and spurred outcry and controversy.