Women Rights

By Grayhunter823

  • Seneca Falls

    First womens rights convention
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    Womens rights

  • States grant voting

    States start to grant women the right to vote

  • First Birth-Control Clinic

    Margaret Sanger opens firts birth control clinic only for it to be shut down 10 days later

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th amendment was passed granting women the right to vote

  • American Birth Control League

    Margaret Sanger founds the ABCL which later turns into the Planned Parenthood Federation in 1942

  • Birth-Control Clinic reopened

    Birth Control clinic reopened by Margaret Sanger

  • Daughters of Bilitis founded

    The Daughters of Bilitis was the firts lesbian organization in the U.S

  • Food and Drug Administration approves birth control pills

  • Presidents Commision on the Status of Woman

    JFK makes the PCSW and makes Eleanor Roosevelt Chairwoman

  • Equal Pay Act

    The equal pay act made it illegal to pay a women less than what you would pay a man for the same job

  • Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act

    Title VIII of the Civil Rights Act bars any discrimination in employment

  • Naional Organization for Women

    NOW was founded by a group of feminists including Betty Friedan

  • Wyoming passes first women's suffrage law