Women's Rights Movement

Only the Beginning

1777

All states pass a law that take away women's right to vote.

Progress?

1839

Mississippi is the first state to pass a law that allows women to have property in their names without their husbands permission.

Respected women

1869

Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa, making her the first woman lawyer, and Ada H. Kepley becomes the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school.

Right to vote

1890

Wyoming is the first state to grant women the right to vote.

Birth Control Clinics

1918

Margaret Sanger, two years after opening a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, wins her suit in New York to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes. The clinic, along with others, becomes Planned Parenthood in 1942.

Equal

1963

The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.