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New Jersey Grants women the vote in its stete constitution.
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U.S. Constitution is ratified. The
terms “persons,” “people” and
“electors” allow for interpretation
of those beings to include men and
women. -
Mississippi becomes first state
to grant married women right to
hold property in their own names,
independent of their husbands. -
Maria Mittchel discovers a new comet, win a metal with from the king of Denmark.
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Lucretia Mott, Martha C. Wright, Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Mary Ann McClintock are invited to tea at the home of Jane Hunt in Waterloo, New York. They decide to call a two-day meeting of women at the Wesleyan Methodist chapel in Seneca Falls to discuss women's rights.
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First women’s suffrage law is
passed, in territory of Wyoming. -
Susan B. Anthony is arrested for
trying to vote -
Secretary of Labor Frances Perkins
becomes first woman Cabinet
member. -
Muriel Siebert becomes first woman
to own a seat on the New York Stock
Exchange. -
Katharine Graham of The Washington
Post Co. becomes first woman CEO
of a Fortune 500 company. -
Congress declares March as
National Women’s History Month -
Madeleine Albright becomes first
woman Secretary of State. -
Secretary of Labor Elaine Chao
becomes first Asian woman Cabinet
member. -
Nancy Pelosi becomes first woman
Speaker of the House. -
Hillary Clinton becomes only First
Lady to run for President. -
President Obama signs into law the
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, intended
to reduce the pay gab between men
and women. -
Sonia Sotomayor becomes first
Latina Supreme Court Justice. -
General Motors becomes largest
company with a woman CEO (Mary
Barra)
