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Important dates in women's rights history

By terhart1

  • Philadelphia committee

    Led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • 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

  • Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution

    Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution

    The federal women's suffrage amendment is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. Sent to the states for ratification.
  • First Women Elected to the US Senate

    First Women Elected to the US Senate

    Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas becomes the first woman elected to the US Senate.

  • Rachel Carson published Silent Spring

  • The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress

    The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress

    Promising equitable wages for the same work; regardless of origin of sex of the worker.

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • Earth Day

    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
  • Prohibition of Sex Discrimination

    Prohibition of Sex Discrimination

    President Nixon signed the Education Amendments of 1972 which included Title IX, which prohibits discrimination in academic activities based on sex.
  • Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade makes abortion legal

    Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade makes abortion legal

    File consists of civil cases, this plaintiff was seeking to obtain an abortion in Dallas, Texas.
  • First Woman to serve on Supreme Court

    First Woman to serve on Supreme Court

    Sandra Day O'Connor
  • First American Woman in space

    First American Woman in space

    Sally Ride, flying on Space Shuttle Challenger

  • Montreal Protocol

    on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol

    negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide and five other greenhouse gasses
  • The Nation’s First Female Secretary of State.

    The Nation’s First Female Secretary of State.

    nominated by Clinton, Madeleine Albright is sworn in.

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • The U.S. military Removes a Ban

    The U.S. military Removes a Ban

    The ban against women serving in combat positions.

  • 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
  • First Woman & of color to be Vice President of the United States

    First Woman & of color to be Vice President of the United States

    Kamala Harris is sworn in.