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Important dates in women's rights history

By Kiley C

  • Philadelphia Committee attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • Henry David publishes Walden

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

  • Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton found the National Woman Suffrage Association

    Two women come together to help fight harder to gain women's right to vote.

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

  • First women to receive the Nobel Prize

    First women to receive the Nobel Prize

    Marie Curie is the first women to get a Nobel Prize for her work in the radioactivity field.

  • 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

  • Women's right to vote

    Women's right to vote

    After a long fight women finally gained the right to vote.
  • First women to fly solo across the Atlantic

    First women to fly solo across the Atlantic

    Amelia Earhart is the first women to fly solo across the Atlantic ocean.
  • Women serve in the armed forces

    Women serve in the armed forces

    At this time women were allowed to serve in the armed forces during World War 2. Around 150,000 women were recruited.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Equal Pay Act passes

    The Equal Pay Act passes

    This act aimed to abolish the wage discrimination against men and women doing the same work.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day

  • Roe v. Wade

    Roe v. Wade

    One of the most controversial court rulings in women's history is whether or not women should get the right to decide if they want to end their pregnancy or not.
  • First women in space

    First women in space

    Sally Ride becomes the first women in space. After answering a newspaper ad looking for applicants Ride joined and since then about 41 women have been in orbit.

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

  • Congress passes the Violence Against Women Act

    Congress passes the Violence Against Women Act

    This act is a huge part of legislation that's meant to improve criminal justice an community responses to domestic violence, relationship violence, and sexual assault.

  • 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 gasses

  • U.S rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • First women speaker of the House of Representatives

    First women speaker of the House of Representatives

    In January of 2007 Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of House of Representatives.

  • 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