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marked the beginning of the women's rights movement in the United States. -
Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution -
when the amendment was first introduced in Congress, it was ratified, champions of voting rights for women worked tirelessly, but strategies for achieving their goal varied
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Sanger together with her sister Ethel Byrne and activist Fania Mindell opened the country's first birth control clinic in Brownsville, Brooklyn -
the 19th amendment granted women the right to vote. The 19th amendment legally guarantees American women the right to vote. Achieving this milestone required a lengthy and difficult struggle -
In the history of discrimination in the United States, the Alaska Equal Rights Act of 1945 was the first state or territorial anti-discrimination law enacted in the United States in the 20th century -
The women's liberation movement (WLM) was a political alignment of women and feminist intellectualism that emerged
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FDA approved the sale of Enovid for use as an oral contraceptive. It was manufactured by G.D. Searle and Company, a firm that had also supported Gregory Pincus' research for many years -
in 1963, Betty Friedan published The Feminine Mystique, a founding text of modern feminism that is considered one of the most influential books of the twentieth century -
Signed into law by President John F. Kennedy on June 10, 1963, this historic legislation recognized that women's work—and their fair and equal treatment in the workplace—is vital to our country's economic prosperity -
His plan did not have the desired effect, however, and the bill was signed into law by President Lyndon B. Johnson on July 2, 1964. After the bill was passed, the government began work on policies that would enforce the new laws. -
Four years before ratification of the 19th Amendment secured American women's constitutional right to vote, Jeannette Rankin became the first woman elected to Congress. Rankin was sworn in as a representative for Montana on April 2, 1917. She served a second term in the House of Representatives in 1941. -
Title IX of the Civil Rights Act was signed into law on June 23, 1972 by President Richard M. Nixon. However, Title IX began its journey through all three branches of government when Representative Patsy T. Mink, of Hawaii, who is recognized as the major author and sponsor of the legislation, introduced it in Congress -
In Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court decided that the right to privacy implied in the 14th Amendment protected abortion as a fundamental right -
On Sept. 20, 1973, top women's tennis player Billie Jean King defeated former No. 1 ranked men's tennis player Bobby Riggs in a "Battle of the Sexes" match. King beat Riggs in straight sets, 6–4, 6–3, 6–3 -
Sandra Day O'Connor being sworn in as the first female Supreme Court Justice on Sept. 9, 1981. She served for more than a quarter of a century