International Federation of University Women
The International Federation of University Women (IFUW) is an international organization that aims to promote the education of women. Since 2015 the name is Graduate Women International .
IFUW was founded in 1919 by Virginia Gildersleeve , Caroline Spurgeon and Rose Sidgwick .
It has national organizations in many countries such as Australia, Canada and in Germany the German Association of Women Academics .
During the time of National Socialism, foreign members provided numerous female academics with decisive assistance in legal emigration and illegal flight from Germany and the occupied territories to free foreign countries by providing them with financial means to leave the country, guaranteeing their livelihood in the host country, providing them with jobs, for guaranteed their political harmlessness and facilitated social integration in exile . These beneficiaries included, for example, Charlotte Leubuscher , Alice Masaryková , Lise Meitner , Käte Pariser , Alice Salomon , Georgette Schüler , Hertha Sponer and Frieda Wunderlich .
Web links
- International Federation of University Women (IFUW)
- Australian Federation of University Women (AFUW)
- Canadian Federation of University Women (CFUW)
- German Association of Women Academics
- Database of international networks of women academics
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Max Planck Institute for the History of Science Berlin: List of 241 biographies ( Memento of the original from March 11, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Christine von Oertzen 2012: Strategy Understanding: On the transnational networking of female academics 1917-1955 . Wallstein Verlag, ISBN 9783835309210
