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State law declares women ineligible to cast a vote.
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Mississippi allows women to own property in their own names but only with the permission of their husbands.
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The Declaration of Sentiments is signed by over 300 people in Seneca Falls, New York, calling for an end of discrimination of women.
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The Constitution defines voters and even citizens as male.
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Anthony is convicted of unlawful voting after casting a vote in defiance of the 14th Amendment.
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Wyoming is the first state to allow women the vote.
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Every states allows women to keep their own wages and own their own property.
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Sanger wills a lawsuit which states doctors can advise married women about birth control (in New York). Her own clinic eventually becomes Planned Parenthood.
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Women are now allowed to vote in the US, thanks to the efforts of women's rights activists like Alice Paul.
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Caraway is the first woman elected to the US Senate.
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Race, color, religion, national origin nor sex of the worker can prohibit equal pay.
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Sex discrimination in the workplace is deemed unlawful.
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Abortion becomes legal.
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O'Conner becomes the first female member of the Supreme Court.
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Albright becomes the first female secretary of state.
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Women are allowed to fight in the military.
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Congress has 125 female members, more than ever before.
