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Seneca Falls Convention
The Seneca Falls Convention gathered (mostly) women and men to discuss social, civil, and religious conditions of the rights of women. At the two day convention, 68 women and 32 men signed the Declaration of Sentiments. Signers of this document include Elizabeth Cady Station, Lucretia Mott, Martha Wright and Frederick Douglass -
19th Amendment
This granted women the right to vote. Congress passed this on June 4, 1919 and it was ratified in 1920. -
Equal Pay Act of 1963
Under the act, employers can not discriminate against women on the basis of sex when women perform jobs requiring “equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and which are performed under similar working conditions” as jobs performed by men.
In order to recover under the act, a woman must prove that: an employer paid higher wages to men than to women, male and female employees conduct an equal amount of work that requires equal skill, effort, and responsibility, and worked under same conditions. -
Title IX
This allowed women to participate in sports. This also made funding equal between male and female activities. -
Civil Rights Act of 1964
This revolutionized the legal status of women. It enforced that no one in America shall support race or sex discrimination in employment.
