Embracing the Language of Human Rights: International Women's Organisations, Feminism and Campaigns Against the Marriage Bar, <i>c</i> .1919–1960

This article considers four international women's organisations – the International Council of Women, Alliance Women for Suffrage and Equal Citizenship, Federation University Open Door their campaigns right married women to undertake paid work. It examines how each organisation adopted engaged with language human rights in late 1920s 1930s. is argued that after 1948, precisely because its formal adoption by UN, became less usable as a way make point still faced inequalities, so other framings more significant. contributes historiographies on organisations, offers detailed discussion activism against marriage bar, challenges conventional chronology concept rights.