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Woman's Rights Timeline
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The American Women Suffrage Association
(AWSA) was formed in November 1869 in response to a split in the American Equal Rights Association over the Fifteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution. Its founders, were Lucy Stone, Henry Blackwell and Julia Howe.They believed that the Fifteenth Amendment would be in danger of failing to pass in Congress if it included the right for women to vote. -
First Woman to Win a Nobel Peace Prize
The first woman to win a Nobel Prize was Marie Curie. She won the Nobel Prize in 1903 in Physics with her husband, Pierre Curie, and Henri Becquerel.Marie Curie is the only woman to win multiple Nobel Prizes. In 1911, she won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry.. Curie's daughter, Irène Joliot-Curie, won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry in 1935, making the two the only mother-daughter pair to have won Nobel Prizes ever. -
The National Women's Trade Union League
The National Women's Trade Union League of America (NWTUL) was founded in Boston in 1903 as a group of working-class women, professional reformers, and women from wealthy and dominant families. Its main purpose or goal was to "assist in the organization of women wage workers into trade unions and thereby to help them secure conditions to help them for healthy efficient work and to get a award for work. -
The 19th Amendment to the Constitution
The 19th amendment allows all American women the right to vote. To acheive woman to be able to vote it was a trechorous and difficult struggle. Finally after decades of agitation and protest. The beginning in the mid-19th century, several generations of woman suffrage supporters lectured, wrote, and marched to achieve what many Americans considered a radical change of the Constitution The 19th amendment was a huge impact on women in america. -
First Female Cabinet Officer
Frances Perkins was the first female cabinet officer. Perkins, a U.S. Secretary of Labor from 1933 to 1945, obviously a well qualifed for the job. As a good friend of President Roosevelt she helped pull the labor movement into the New Deal Coalition.
