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Women's Rights
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Women's voting rights
New York takes away women's right to vote. -
Women's voting rights
Massachusetts takes away women's right to vote. -
Constitution Ratified
Constitution is ratified without granting women right to vote. -
Hartford Female Seminary
Opened by Catharine Beecher as the first major educational institute for women. -
First National Women's Rights Convention
Heald in Brinley Hall, Worchester, MA, Over 1000 viewers and participants. Important leaders such as Frederick Dougless attend. -
American Womans Educational Association
Founded by Catharine Beecher to spread the important of domestic education to women in America. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Sady Stanton form this association to achieve voting rights of women through a constitutional amendment. -
NA WSA
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). State by state campaigns to obtain womens voting rights. -
Congressional Union formed by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul (later changed to NWP)
To work towards the goal of granting women the right to vote. -
The Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor
Collected info about women in the work force and insured safe working conditions for women. -
"Rosie the Riveter" Phenomenon
During WWII, this phenomenon occured. It was where women flooded to factories to temporarily replac the men who were sent to war. -
WASP
Women Airforce Service Pilots: the significance of this union and others created during WWII shows the determination and power women had to support society. -
Women Strike for Peace
50, 000 women strike through 60 major cities in the Women Strike for Peace to help secure the signing of a Nuclear Test Treaty and other nuclear disarmament at the height of the cold war. During this time women played a large role in bringing down HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). The group consisted mainly of married-with-children middle-class white women. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Prohibited wage differences based on sex. This was a huge accomplishment for the women working for equality because even if they had done the same job they most likely would've been paid less than a man. -
Headstart Act
This act was included in Johnsons 'Great Society'. It provded poor people with preschool education and prenatal care to pregnant women. It included women to get abortions. This act was significant for it focused on the health and safety needs of women. -
NOW National Organization for Women
NOW was founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C., by 28 women and men attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women, the successor to the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. It was founded by the author of the Feminist Mystique, Betty Friedman. It is now the largest feminist organization in the US.