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Women's voting rights
New York takes away womens rights to vote -
Women's voting rights
Massachusetts takes away women's right to vote -
Women's voting rights
New Hampshire takes away women's right to vote -
Constitution ratified
Constitution is ratified without granting women right to vote -
Hartford Female Seminary
Opened by Catharine Beecher as the first major educational institutie for women. -
A Treatise on Domestic Economy by Catherine Beecher
Written by Catharine Beecher to advocate the cult of domesticity. Women should be the moral structure in the household, and educate intellegent republican children. -
Seneca Falls Convention
Womens rights convention in Seneca Falls, NY. Organized by Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. Drafted the Declaration of Sentiments, which stated: "He has made her, if married, in the eye of the law, civilly dead". The declaration demanded for womens civil rights. It soon became a foundational document of the Womans Suffrage Movement. -
First National Women's Rights Convention
Heald in Brinley Hall, (shown in picture) Worchester, MA. Over 1000 viewers and participants. These meetings are heald anually here on. Important leaders such as Frederick Douglass attend. -
American Womans Educational Association
Founded by Catharine Beecher to spread the importance of domestic education to women in America. -
The National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA)
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Sady Stanton form this association to achieve voting rights of women through a constitutional amendment. -
American Woman Suffrage Association
Founded by Lucy Stone and Henry Blackwell. Advoated womens voting rights via state constitutions. -
Wyoming passes first suffrage law
The state of Wyoming pases it's frst suffrage law, allowing women to work on juries. -
Helen Hunt Jackson
Wrote "A Century of Dishonor", which described the mistreatment of Native Americans from Americans troops in the West. -
Hull House, Chicago
Founded by Jane Adams & Ellen Gates Star. Had innovated education, social, and artistic programs. -
Mary Lease
Activist/Populist. Despised large businesses in American (especially Wall Street), for they turned citizens in to 'wage slaves'. Strongly supported the womans suffrage movement. -
NAWSA
The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). State by state campaigns to obtain womens voting rights. -
Ida B Wells
African-American journalist who advocated blacks rights and womans suffrage. -
Colorado grants women right to vote
Colorado becomes the first state in U.S history to grant women voting rights. -
Idaho and Utah grant women voting rights
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Carrie Chapman Catt takes over NAWSA
Catt served as president of the NAWSA and was the founder of the League of Women Voters. -
The National Womens Trade Union League established
Wanted improved wages and working conditions for women -
Washington (state) grants women sufferage
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California grants womens sufferage
California state referendum approves full voting rights for women. -
Congressional Union formed by Lucy Burns and Alice Paul (later changed to NWP)
To work towards the goal of granting women the right to vote -
Womens Sufferage parade (the eve of Wilson's inauguration) attacked by a mob
Many injured, but no arrests made -
Formation of the National Women's Party
Formed by Alice Paul, Lucy Burns, and their colleagues. -
3 women vote in NYC
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Picketers Arrested in DC
National Women's party picketers were arrested for 'obstructing traffic' -
Susan B. Anthony's written amendment (introduced in 1878) passed by the H.O.R. and Senate
Then sent to the states for ratification -
19th Amendment
The ratification of this amendment gave females the right to vote. -
The Womens Bureau of Department of Labor is formed
Formed in order to collect information about working women and make sure the work place is safe for them -
The Womens Bureau of the Department of Labor
collected info about women in the work force and insured safe working conditions for women. -
Amelia Earhart
Earhart has her first flying lession from Neta Snook. This event is significant because it marks the origin of this future celebrity's hobby. -
Margaret Salenger
Margaret Salenger creates birth control to control the growing population and unwanted pregnancys. -
Sheppard-towner maternity act
provided federal financing in maternal and infant health care for women. It also gave funds to build women's health care clinics. -
Edna Millay awarded Pulitzer Prize
Millay is the first women in history to be awarded this prestigious award. It is significant because it shows the emerging respect for women and their work in society. -
The Equal Rights Amendment
This was drafted by Alice Paul. She hoped to make it against the law to treat women differently from men in society. Women wanted to affirm the same rights as men, however, it was never passed. -
Nellie Ross
Ross becomes America's first governer of a state. She becomes in inaugurated as the 13th govorner of Wyoming in 1925. Ross was also the first women to serve as a Governor of a state. -
Frances Perkins
Frances Perkins is the first women to hold a cabinet position in American history. This marks a significant shift in womens role in society. -
Nellie Ross @ US Mint
Nellie Ross soon becomes the first female head of the United States Mint. This is significant because it shows women higher respected positions in society. -
"Rosie the Riveter" Phenomenon
During WWII, this phenomenon occured. It was where women flooded to factories to temporarily replace the men who were sent to war. -
WASP
Women Airforce Service Pilots: the significance of this union and others created during WWII shows the determination and power women had to support society. -
The Woman's Professional Golf Assosiation
Allowed women to enjoy fun activities outside the home. Sports were viewed as a man’s territory but during this time women pulled ahead and created different sports associations as well. In 1949 it’s name was changed to Ladies Professional Golf Association. -
Commission on the Status of Women
Commission on the Status of Women founded as a mechanism to promote, report on and monitor issues relating to the political, economic, civil, social and educational rights of women. Headed up by Eleanor Roosevelt under Kennedy’s orders. This Commission played a large role in the Women Strike for Peace in 1961 -
Fay vs. New York
Fay v. New York, the U.S. Supreme Court says women are equally qualified with men to serve on juries but are granted an exemption and may serve or not. This case advanced women to yet another form of equality in the law department. -
Cult of Domesticity
The cold war throughout the 40's and 50's was an era of suburbian culture. Women were viewed as the moral fugure in the typical American family, and her duties we're strictly domestic. This time period was significant for women's position in society was restricted and degrading. -
Women Strike for Peace
50, 000 women strike through 60 major cities in the Women Strike for Peace to help secure the signing of a Nuclear Test Treaty and other nuclear disarmament at the height of the cold war. During this time women played a large role in bringing down HUAC (House Un-American Activities Committee). The group consisted mainly of married-with-children middle-class white women. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
prohibited wage differences based on sex. This was a huge accomplishment for the women working for equality because even if they had done the same job they most likely would’ve been paid less than a man. -
The Feminist Mystique
In 1957, Betty Friedan was asked to conduct a survey for her graducating female class. The results, in which she found that many of them were unhappy with their lives as housewives, prompted her to begin research for The Feminine Mystique, conducting interviews with other suburban housewives, as well as researching psychology, media, and advertising. -
Civil Rights Act
The rights this law protected included: freedom of choice to vote, apply for employment, use of hotels, restaurants and all other public places. This act wasn’t only big for African Americans, but also for women who had been discriminated against in the work place etc. -
Headstart Act
This act was included in Johnsons 'Great Society'. It provded poor people with preschool education and prenatal care to pregnant women. It included women to get abortions. This act was significant for it focused on the health and safety needs of women. -
Pauli Murray
Murray becomes the first African American Women to be an episcopical priest. -
NOW National Organization for Women
NOW was founded on June 30, 1966, in Washington, D.C., by 28 women and men attending the Third National Conference of the Commission on the Status of Women, the successor to the Presidential Commission on the Status of Women. It was founded by the author of the Feminist Mystique, Betty Friedman. It is now the largest feminist organization in the US.
