Women history month

Important Dates in Women’s Rights History

By sarahworleyy

  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • First Women to Earn Degrees

    First Women to Earn Degrees

    Mississippi College became the first college to grant degrees to two women, Alice Robinson and Catherine Hall.
  • "Ain't I a Women?" Speech

    "Ain't I a Women?" Speech

    At the Women's Rights Convention held in Akron, Ohio, Sojourner Truth delivered her speech called "Ain't I a Women?" speech about abolitionist and women's rights.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • "Silent Sentinels" March on White House

    "Silent Sentinels" March on White House

    Alice Paul's National Woman's Party dispatches "silent sentinels" to the White House gates to pressure President Woodrow Wilson to support women's suffrage.
  • Women Have The Right to Vote

    Women Have The Right to Vote

    The 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The congress passed this June 4, 1919, and ratified it on August 18, 1920.
  • First Women Elected for The U.S. Senate

    First Women Elected for The U.S. Senate

    Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.
  • Women Can Join The Military

    Women Can Join The Military

    President Truman's determination to make changes within the military led to the Women's Armed Services Integration Act signed into law June 12, 1948.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • Equal Pay Act in 1963

    Equal Pay Act in 1963

    The act was signed into law by President John F. Kennedy. The act was one of the first federal anti-discrimination laws that addressed wage differences based on gender. But today there are still wage gabs between male ad female.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • Women Can No Longer Be Forced Into Marriage

    Women Can No Longer Be Forced Into Marriage

    1969 – California adopts the nation's first "no fault" divorce law, allowing divorce by mutual consent.

  • Earth Day – April 22., millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day organized by Gaylord Nelson, former senator of Wisconsin, and Denis Hayes, Harvard graduate student. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • Reed v. Reed

    Reed v. Reed

    The Supreme Court ruled that this violated the Equal Protection Clause of the 14th Amendment, according to this ACLU summary.

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gases

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • Congress Full of Women

    Congress Full of Women

    Congress has a record number of women, with 104 female House members and 21 female Senators, including the chamber's first Latina, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation