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