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The Seneca Falls Convention was arranged by Lucretia Mott and Elizabeth Cady, who, as abolitionists, had wanted to attend a similar convention for the World Anti-Slavery Convention, London, 1840, but were barred from it as women.
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California is the first state to give property rights to women.
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Constitution giving free voting rights to “all citizens,” but for the first time defining “citizens” and “voters” as any male, despite their race. However, women were still excluded from this.
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A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed; when the 19th Amendment passes 41 years later, it is worded exactly the same.
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The National Association of Colored Women is formed, bringing together more than 100 black women's clubs.
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The 19th Amendment is added to the Constitution, granting all women the right to vote
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Caroline O’Day was elected to congress.
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The U.S. Supreme Court upholds Washington state’s minimum wage laws for women.
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1940’s and 50's: Women’s movement fought for a welfare state to help the most vulnerable and families.
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Millions of women enter work force during WWII.
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The women's liberation movement began after World War II, as 16 million American men went off to fight, women pretty much took over maintenance of the U.S. economy (1942, Rosie the Riveter) link
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Planned Parenthood is started by Margaret Sanger after going to court over a lawsuit; first birth control clinic available for medical purposes. link
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The Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
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The feminist movement of the 1960s and '70s originally focused on dismantling workplace inequality, like denial of access to better jobs and salary inequity.
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In the 1960’s, major goals of feminists were equal pay for equal work, ending sexual harassment and domestic violence, more job opportunities in various fields, and sharing responsibility in child rearing and domestic work.
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John F Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act. Before that, women made 58￠ for every dollar a man would make.
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Sex segregated want-ads made illegal.
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Supreme Court decision in the case of Baird v. Eisenstadt made birth control pills accessible to anyone, with or without marital status.
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Ban on sex discrimination in publicly funded schools. Caused increase in number of women in athletic schools and professional programs.
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Housing discrimination on the basis of sex and credit discrimination against women are outlawed by Congress.
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act outlaws firing due to a woman becoming pregnant.
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EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast) is established as a financial network for pro-choice Democratic women running for national political office.
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Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, the Supreme Court finds that sexual harassment is a form of illegal job discrimination.
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Women's pay reached 70% of men’s and the Equal Pay act slowed down in effectiveness as employers found excuses for pay differences.
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In Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court reaffirms the validity of a woman's right to abortion under Roe v. Wade
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The Violence Against Women Act tightens federal penalties for sex offenders, funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence, and provides for special training of police officers.
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In United States v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that the all-male Virginia Military School has to admit women in order to continue to receive public funding.
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The Supreme Court rules in Kolstad v. American Dental Association that a woman can sue for punitive damages for sex discrimination if the anti-discrimination law was violated with malice or indifference to the law, even if that conduct was not especially severe.
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Fair Pay Restoration Act passed so that victims of pay discrimination can file a complaint within 180 days of their last paycheck (instead of how it used to be since a woman got her first unfair paycheck).
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Even in the 10 top paying jobs for women, females earn less than men; only one career, speech pathology, pays the same regardless of gender.
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Full-time working women still aren’t pulling down the same amount of income as full-time working men.
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