Women's Rights

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    Womens Rights

  • Women’s Trade Union League Is Established

    A national labor group designed to unionize working women and advocate for better wages and improved working conditions.

  • Oregon Passes Womens Labor Law

    Oregon passed a law limiting the number of hours a woman could work in a laundry to ten hours a day.

  • Congressional Union for Women Suffrage is formed

    The CUWS worked toward the passage of a federal amendment to give women the right to vote.

  • March in New York City

    25,000 women march in New York City, demanding the right to vote

  • First Woman to Serve in Congress.

    Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana was the first women to serve in either branch of Congress. She was elected at a time when women in most states were still not allowed to vote.

  • 19th Amendment is Ratified

    The 19th Amendment gave women the right to vote. The Amendment read “The right of citizens
    of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by
    any state on account of sex.”

  • League of Women Voters Created

    The League of Women Voters was founded
    to educate women on their right to vote
    and encourage them to exercise this right that the 19th Amendment made possible.

  • Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League

    The ABCL focused on giving birth control information to doctors, social workers, women's clubs, and the scientific community. They also provided information to thousands of individual women. This program fosters the development of state and local birth control leagues and clinics. They lobbied at the state and national level for birth control legislation.

  • First Woman Serves in US Senate (Kind Of)

    Rebecca L. Felton of Georgia is sworn in as the first woman to serve in the US Senate but she only serves one day.

  • First Equal Rights Amendment Introduced

    Alice Paul and the National Woman’s Party
    succeed in having a constitutional amendment introduced in Congress that says:
    “Men and women shall have equal rights
    throughout the United States and every
    place subject to its jurisdiction.” The Amendment was not official however until July 14, 1982.

  • First Woman recieves Nobel Peace Prize

    Jane Addams becomes the first American woman to receive the Nobel Peace Prize.

  • National Council of Negro Women is formed

    Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women. A group of black women's groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism.

  • Law on Birth Control info is changed.

    Federal law prohibiting the distrabution of contraceptive information through the mail is modified, and birth control information is no longer classified as obscene.