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1777 |
Abigail Smith Adams,
wife of the second president
(John Adams) and mother of
the sixth president (John
Quincy Adams) writes that
women "will not hold
ourselves bound by any laws
which we have no voice." |
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1784 |
Hannah Adams is first
American woman to support
herself by writing. |
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1819 |
Emma Hart Willard
writes her "Plan for
Improving Female Education,"
which although unsuccessful,
defines the issue of women's
education at that time. |
|
1826 |
The first
public high schools for
girls open in
New York and
Boston. |
|
1828 |
Former
slave, abolitionist, and
feminist
Isabella van Wagener
is freed and takes the name
Sojourner Truth. She begins
to preach against slavery
throughout
New York and
New England. |
|
1833 |
Oberlin College in Ohio,
is the first co-educational
college in the
U.S. |
|
1838 |
Mount Holyoke College
is established in
Massachusetts as
first college for women. |
|
1840 |
Elizabeth Cady Stanton,
feminist, dress reformer,
and editor, omits the word
"obey" from her marriage
vows. |
|
1840 |
Lucretia Mott is one
of several women delegates
to attend the
World's Anti-Slavery
Convention in London.
As a woman, she is forced to
sit in the gallery and
cannot participate. |
|
1848 |
The first Women's Rights
Convention is held in
Seneca Falls, NY. |
|
1849 |
Elizabeth Blackwell
becomes the first woman to
receive a medical degree in
U.S. |
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Women
doctors are permitted to
legally practice medicine
for the first time. |
|
1850 |
Women are
granted the right to own
land in a state (Oregon). |
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The
Female (later Women's)
Medical College is
founded in
Pennsylvania. |
|
1852 |
Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Stanton
form the
Women's NY Temperance
Society. |
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1860-65 |
American Civil War |
|
1866 |
The
American Equal Rights
Association is founded by
Susan B. Anthony, Elizabeth
Stanton, Martha Coffin
Pelham Wright, and
Ernestine Rose. |
|
1868 |
The 14th Amendment
denying women the right to
vote is ratified. |
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Women
lawyers are licensed in U.S. |
|
1869 |
The National Woman Suffrage
Association (NWSA)
and the
American Woman Suffrage
Association (AWSA)
are formed. |
|
1870 |
The 15th Amendment
enfranchising black men is
ratified. |
|
1872 |
Susan B. Anthony is
arrested for attempting to
vote. |
|
1874 |
The Women's Christian
Temperance Union (WCTU)
is founded. |
|
1878 |
For the
first time, a
Women's Suffrage Amendment
is introduced to Congress. |
|
1890 |
Wyoming is first
state to allow women to
vote. |
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The NWSA
and the AWSA reunite to form
the
National American Woman
Suffrage Association (NAWSA). |
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Women begin
to wear knickerbockers
instead of skirts for
bicycle riding. |
|
1903 |
The Women's Trade Union
Leage of New York is
formed to unionize working
women. This group later
becomes the nucleus for the
International Ladies'
Garment Workers' Union
(ILGWU). |
|
1913 |
5,000
suffragists march in
Washington, D.C. for
the women's rights movement. |
|
1915 |
A petition
with 500,000 signatures in
support of women's suffrage
amendment is given to
President Woodrow Wilson. |
|
1920 |
The 19th Amendment is
ratified, allowing women the
right to vote in federal
elections. |
|
1923 |
Alice Paul and the
National Women's Party
first proposes the
Equal Rights Amendment
to eliminate discrimination
on the basis of sex. It has
never been ratified. |
|
1934 |
Florence Ellinwood Allen
becomes first woman on US
Court of Appeals. |
|
1939-45 |
World War
II And Rosie the Riveter
went to work in the
Factory's to support the
war. |
|
1961 |
Eleanor Roosevelt is
appointed to chair the
Commission on the Status of
Women. |
|
1966 |
The National Organization
for Women (NOW) is
founded by
Betty Goldstein Friedan. |
|
1970 |
50,000 people march in
New York City for the
first
Women's Strike for Equality. |
|
1971 |
U.S. Supreme Court
rule ends sex discrimination
in hiring. |
|
1972 |
U.S. Congress passes the
Equal Employment Opportunity
Act. |
|
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Equal Rights Amendment
passes Congress but fails to
be ratified. |
|
1975 |
Ella Grasso is first
woman Governor (CT) to be
re-elected. |
|
1977 |
3,000 women march in
Washington, D.C. on
Women's Equality Day to
support the E.R.A. |
|
1981 |
Sandra Day O'Connor
becomes first woman
appointed to the
U.S. Supreme Court. |
|
1995 |
Lt. Col. Eileen Collins
becomes the first American
woman to pilot a
Space Shuttle. |
|
1997 |
Madeleine K. Albright
becomes first woman
U.S. Secretary of State. |
|
2000 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton
becomes the only First Lady
ever elected to the
United States Senate. |
|
2005 |
Condoleezza Rice
becomes the first
African-American woman to be
appointed
Secretary of State. |
|
2007 |
January 4, 2007, Nancy
Pelosi was the First Women
to be elected Speaker of the
United States House of
Representatives. |
|
2008 |
Hillary Rodham Clinton
becomes the only
First Lady ever to run for
president. |
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