Women’s Suffrage Movement By: Arah Marie Al-shabanah (if the month and day is September 27 it means i couldn’t find a month or date)

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  • The National Women’s Trade Union League is established

  • Margaret Sanger opens the first US birth-control clinic in Brooklyn

  • The federal woman suffrage amendment is passed and sent to the states for ratification

  • The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is signed into law

    The 19th Amendment to the Constitution is signed into law

  • The Women's Bureau of the Department of Labor is formed

  • Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League

  • Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women

  • DOB, the first lesbian organization in the United States, is founded.

  • FDA approves brith pills

  • Congress passes the Equal Pay Act

    Congress passes the Equal Pay Act

  • The Civil Rights Act bans discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex and establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

    The Civil Rights Act bans discrimination in employment on the basis of race and sex and establishes the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission

  • The EEOC rules that sex-segregated help wanted ads in newspapers are illegal.

  • California becomes the first state to adopt a "no fault" divorce law

  • The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) is passed by Congress and sent to the states for ratification.

  • The Education Amendments bans sex discrimination in schools.

  • The Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to safe and legal abortion

    The Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to safe and legal abortion

  • The Equal Credit Opportunity Act is passed

  • The first marital rape law is enacted in Nebraska, making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife.

  • The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women

  • EMILY's List (Early Money Is Like Yeast) is established as a financial network for pro-choice Democratic women running for national political office.

  • The Supreme Court finds that sexual harassment is a form of illegal job discrimination

  • The Violence Against Women Act tightens federal penalties for sex offenders, as well as funds services for rape and domestic violence victims

  • The Supreme Court rules that the all-male Virginia Military School has to admit women in order to continue to receive public funding.

  • Defense Secretary Leon Panetta announced that the ban on women serving in combat roles would be lifted

  • Women will be allowed to serve in any job in the armed services, provided they meet gender neutral performance standards.

    Women will be allowed to serve in any job in the armed services, provided they meet gender neutral performance standards.

  • The Supreme Court decides that a Texas law imposed on abortion clinics is unconstitutional

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