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Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Sojourner Truth
Abigail Adams wrote a letter to her husband, founding father John Adams. The letter said," remember the ladies and be more generous and favorable to them than your ancestors." She wanted more power for women and for the men to be more respectful to women. I would consider this bad because it did not do anything for women. -
First women's rights convention
This convention is organized by women and is the Seneca Falls Convention held in New York. There were 300 people attending including organizers Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott. There were 68 women and 32 men that signed the Declaration of Sentiments which sparked decades of activism. -
Elizabeth Blackwell
She was the first woman to graduate school. She was also the first woman to become a doctor after graduating. She went to Geneve College in New York and she also had the highest grades in her class. -
Sojourner Truth
A former slave who turned into an abolitionist and a women's rights activist. She had given the famous speech which said "Ain't I a woman?" She had made it clear that she was a woman and she worked hard and she had 13 kids which all had been sold off in slave auctions. This was good because she was making a stand for black women. -
First Women Suffrage Law
Wyoming had passed the first women suffrage law which would grant women the right to vote and hold office. Wyoming was the 44th state amitted to the union and happened to be the first to pass the women suffrage law. -
First women elected to U.S Senate
Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, is the first woman elected to the U.S senate. She served a full-time position and was a democrat. -
Women's Marching in Suffragette Parade
This was the first suffragist parade in Washington D.C. Was organized by Alice Paul and Lucy Burns. To raise awareness of the world. -
Petition of Woman's Suffrage Movement
People were starting a petition against the women's right amendment. They thought it was bad. This is a bad event because if this petition stopped the women's suffrage amendment then women would be struggling more than they are today. -
Birth Control
Margaret Sanger had opened up the first-ever birth control center. Her clinic was deemed illegal. I would consider this bad because it still shows that men are still against what women wanted. -
House of Representatives
Jeannette Rankin of Montana, a longtime activist with the National Women's Suffrage Association. She was sworn in as the first woman elected to a congress as a member of the House of Representatives. -
19th Amendment
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. -
Amelia Earhart
She was the second women pilot and the first to fly solo and nonstop across the Atlantic. -
Equal Pay Act
House resolution 5056 prohibiting discrimination in pay account of sex. Although this wasn't passed by congress, this bill, introduced by, Representative Winifred Stanley, was the first to propose that employers be required to pay women for equal work. -
Rosa Parks
Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat to a white man on a bus in Montgomery, Ala. -
Allowance of Birth Control
The FDA had finally approved the use of birth control for women. They created a pill to allow women to control if they had children. -
Title IX- Prohibition of Sex Discrimination
President Nixon signed the Education Amendments of 1972 that included Title IX. This prohibits discrimination in academic activities. -
Abortion legal
Supreme Court in Roe V. Wade makes an abortion legal. Some can look at this and wonder if it is good or bad but I personally think this is a wonderful thing for a woman to have the option for. -
Advertising
The Supreme court bans sex-segregated "help-wanted" advertising against women not being fit for the job. -
Me Too Movement
This was a movement to end sexual harassment of women from men in power. It was also used to help any sexual harassment. I would consider this a bad event because still today there is a lot of sexual harassment. Today sex trafficking is at an all-time high. -
COVID-19
This pandemic could set back gender equality. Experts say it could set women's rights back 50 years on the 50th anniversary of the Equal Pay Act. Some people want it back to where men work and women stay at home. This is bad because women have worked so hard for the rights and things we have no and it all may be taken away.
