Women and Civil Rights 1865-1992

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  • NWSA and AWSA, rival suffrage organisations, founded

  • Women's Christian Temperance Union

  • Formation of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA); rival suffrage associations united

  • Margaret Sanger set up first US birth-control clinic

  • House of Representatives passed th women's suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment

  • Francis Perkins became the first woman in the presidential cabinet

  • USA entered the Second World War.

    Seven million women supported the war effort

  • Number of women and men voting was approximately equal for the first time

  • Equal Pay Act

  • Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique'

  • National Organisation for Women founded

  • Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress but never ratified

  • Roe v. Wade

    Supreme Court established a woman's right to abortion

  • Geraldine Ferraro becomes first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party (Democratic Party)

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