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Hutchinson was banished with her family from Massachusetts Bay Colony for hersey
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an outbreak of hysteria which led to 19 people, mostly women put to death for whitchcraft.
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Northcarolina women sign the edenton Proclamation calling for boycotts.
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Adams wrote a letter to her husband John Adams urging him to consider the rights of women.
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Troy Female Seminary was the first seminary school women could attend.
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Lyon founds Mount Holyoke College for women.
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a women's sufferage convintion. the delligates issed the declaration of sentiments.
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Elizabeth Blackwell was born, she would later graduate from Geneva Medical College
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Sojourner Truth gave her famous "Ain't i a woman" speech to point out how she and other African American women were treated
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton formed the National Woman Suffrage Association to help push for women's right to vote.
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Then a territory, Wyoming was the first to give women the right to vote.
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Ellen Swallow richards was the first woman to be accepted to a sicence and technology school. her alma mater was Massachusetts instetut of technology
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The first international women's day was made to celebrated the works of women.
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The 19th Amendment was passed which alowed women the right to vote
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Coleman became the first African-American woman to earn a pilot's license then later became the first American citizen to gain an international pilot's license
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Nellie Tayloe Ross is the first woman to be a governor, she governed Wyoming.
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Jane Addams what the first woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.
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Perkins became the first female apointed to the cabinet when she became the Secretayr of Labor
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women join the workforce turning the war to take the place of men. There is a nearly 60% increase in women working.
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The military creates branches that women could serve in. around 350,000 women joined.
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Women are forced out of the workforce after men return from the war.
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The act was passed as an attempt to equal pay for men and women doing the same jobs.
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renowned golfer Margaret Abbott was the first American woman to win an Olympic medal.
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Lieutenant Colonel Eileen Collins was the first women to pilot a space shuttle.
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The first Asian-American woman to be appointed to the presidential Cabinet.
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Drew Gilpin Faust was named the first female president in the school's history.
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17 women served in the senate and 73 in the house of representatives. This was the highest amount of women serving in congress.
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Kathryn Bigelow won an Oscar for her movie 'The Hurt Locker'
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Abramson became the first female executive editor in the newpaper's history
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Effective on this date, women could serve in any job in the armed forces, this opened up 220,000 jobs to females.
