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The Food and Drug Administration approved the first oral contraceptive, commonly known as "the Pill," for sale as birth control in the United States.
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Women Strike for Peace, founded by Bella Abzug and Dagmar Wilson, drew 50,000 women nationwide to protest nuclear weapons and U.S. involvement in war in southeast Asia.
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President John F. Kennedy issued an executive order establishing the President's Commission on the Status of Women. He appointed former First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt to chair the commission.
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The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was published.
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Anne Moody, who later wrote Coming of Age in Mississippi, participated in a Woolworth's lunch counter sit-in.
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The Equal Pay Act of 1963 was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy.
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Valentina Tereshkova became the first woman in outer space, another Soviet first in the U.S.-U.S.S.R. "space race."
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U.S. President Lyndon B. Johnson signed the Civil Rights Act of 1964, including the Title VII prohibition of discrimination based on sex by private employers including employment agencies and unions.
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The Newark Museum exhibit "Women Artists of America: 1707-1964" looked at women's art, often neglected in the art world.
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The National Organization for Women, known as NOW, was founded.
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The EEOC ruled that being female was not a bona fide occupational qualification of being a flight attendant.
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The "Miss America Protest" by New York Radical Women at the Miss America pageant brought widespread media attention to women's liberation.
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Condoleezza Rice becomes the first female US national security adviser
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March for Women's Lives in Washington, DC; an estimated one million people march to support women's reproductive rights
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The Society for the Psychology of Women Special Committee on Violence Against Women publishes a report on the trafficking of women and girls.
