The American Dream

By bachorn

  • 1972

    1972
    Ms. Magazine was first published as a sample for New York Magazine but sold 300,000 copies in 8 days becoming the major voice of females.

  • 1972

    1972
    Equal Rights Amendment passes congress but ends up failing.

  • 1973

    1973
    Established a women’s right to safe and legal abortion and over rides anti-abortion in many states

  • 1976

    1976
    The first marital rape law enacted in Nebraska. Making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife

  • 1981

    1981
    President Ronald Reagan nominates Sandra Day O’Connor to become the first women to serve on the United States Supreme court

  • 1994

    1994
    The Violence Against Women Act tightens federal penalities for sex offenders, funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence, provides special training of police officers.

  • 1995

    1995
    Lt. Col. Eileen Collins becomes the first american women to pilot a space shuttle

  • 2000

    2000
    Hillary Rodham Clinton becomes the only first lady ever elected to the U.S Senate

  • 2005

    2005
    Condoleezza Rice becomes the first African American women appointed secretary of state

  • 2007

    2007
    Nancy Pelosi becomes the first woman speaker of the U.S House of Representatives.