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The Changing Role of Women Around the World in the 19th & 20th Century

By historyhenchmen

  • Primary & High Schools for Females

    Primary and high schools for girls are established in Russia.

  • The first Co-Ed University

    In Ohio, the first co-ed university is established. Oberlin College is a private college.

  • The Married Women's Propert Act

    In Mississipi the Married Women's Property Act enabled married women to own, (but not control) property in their name.

  • Formation of the National Women's Sufferage Association (USA)

    Having been excluded from the 15th Amendment to the Constitution which inhibited disinfranchisement on the basis of race, led prominent activist, Susan B. Anthony to form the National Women's Sufferage Association. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWQKYmg_0R0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWQKYmg_0R0

  • Japan - The first all-female University is founded.

    Japan, 1900, the first female university is founded.

  • Japan's first co-ed university

  • Women granted vote in Denmark

    This is one of the earliest examples of women's suffrage being granted.
  • UN established the equal rights of men and women

    UN established the equal rights of men and women

    The United Nations established the equal rights of men and women in its charter as well as in its Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948.

  • Women granted mortgages

    Up until the 1960's it was a very rare thing that a woman would be granted a mortgage. “It wasn’t until about 1960 that single women earned enough to get a mortgage in their own right.
    ”Today the story is different and twice as many women are making mortgage decisions as men.One in four women with partners make the financial decisions in the relationship and only 7% of women say their men take control of the financial issues." Anna Bennett http://www.mortgagestrategy.co.uk/the-female-factor/11

  • 1971/1972 Policy Change in St. Patrick's College Drumcondra

    Between 1971 and 1972 a policy was implemented to allow women to study in St. Patrick's College Drumcondra. 180 female students enrolled in the college within 2 years of this.

  • Stand up for Malala

    Malala Yousafazi, an astonishingly brave 15 year old girl who survived an assassination attempt for her determined efforts to defend girls’ education in Paskistan, after the Taliban outlawed schools for girls in her native Swat Valley. The human rights to education and gender equality were both violated by this action. http://www.unesco.org/new/en/unesco/resources/malala-symbolizing-the-right-of-girls-to-education/

  • Saudi Arabia - Women's right to vote

    This year women in Saudi will be allowed to vote for the first time. Today, women still cannot vote in the Vatican City.