-
Sojourner Truth gives her famous "Ain't I a Woman" speech at the Ohio Women's Rights Convention in 1851.
-
Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton founded the National Woman Suffrage Association.
-
The 19th amendment is ratified by congress, granting women the right to vote in the United States.
-
Margaret Sanger founded the American Birth Control League, the first public group in the United States advocating for the use of birth control.
-
Nellie Tayloe Ross is inaugurated as the first woman governor in the United States in Wyoming.
-
Amelia Earhart is the first woman to ever fly nonstop from one continent to another.
-
The first women's branch of the military was started, first as an auxiliary corps, in 1942 as the WAAC.
-
Enovid, the first legal birth control pill, goes on the market in 1960.
-
The Equal Pay Act is signed and passed into law by John F. Kennedy on June 10th, 1963, prohibiting sex-based wages.
-
The Civil Rights Act outlaws sexual discrimination in 1964.
-
Ms. Magazine became the first magazine to ever feature the subject of domestic violence on the cover, starting a public discussion of domestic abuse.
-
Sandra Day O’Connor becomes the first woman appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court.
-
Sally Ride becomes the first woman to ever go to space, traveling as an astronaut with NASA in 1983.
-
In 2005 Hillary Rodham Clinton become the first ever First Lady to be elected into public office.
-
Sara Blakely, founder of Spanx, becomes the first ever self-made female billionaire
