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A convention for women's rights was held in Seneca Falls, New York
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A women's rights convention was held in Salem, Ohio from which men were banned.
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Clara Howard Nichols, a newspaper editor, gave a speech in Vermont Senate Assembly on women's poverty rights issues.
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Women's suffragist activist attended a meeting in Broadway Tabernacle where they had to face "hissing shouting, yelling, stamping, booing and all kinds of disruptions" and therefore this meeting was called the Mob Convention.
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The State of Massachusetts granted property rights to women.
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American Equal Rights Association(AERA) was formed by the uniting two different groups, American Anti Slavery Association and the suffragist movement.
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Wyoming became the first American state to give enfranchisement rights to women without restrictions.
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Esther Morris became the first female government official as she was appointed the Justice of Peace in Wyoming.
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Women in Minnesota and Michigan won the right to vote in school elections.
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Washington territory granted women the right to vote.
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Supreme Court snatched away enfranchisement rights of women in Washington territory.
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The National American Women Suffrage Association was founded due to merger of NWSA and AWSA.
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A petition for women's enfranchisement in New York was not heard despite holding 600,000 signatures.
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Idaho granted suffrage rights to women.
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Washington state enfranchised women.
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A rally for suffrage was attacked by a mob and hundreds of women were injured. The culprits were set free.
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More than 500 women were arrested and 168 served jail time for picketing outside the White House.
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The Nineteenth Amendment came to existence and women's rights movement in the USA finally achieved it's goal when American women were enfranchised.
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Eleanor Roosevelt headed the President's commission on status pf women, which called for the Passage of Equal Pay Act.
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Betty Friedan's book "The Feminine Mystique" created an uproar among women, which gave vent to their dissent for their current social position.
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National Organization for Women became the leading organization in women's rights movement, which advocated abortion rights, child care for working women, Equal Rights Amendment, equal pay, and involvement of women in the mainstream.
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Congress passed Equal Rights Amendment, which was later sent to states for ratification.
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Supreme Court affirmed women's right to safe and legal abortion. Thus, many anti-abortion state laws were overturned.
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Nebraska became the first state which enacted martial rape law, rendering it legal for a husband to rape his wife.
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Pregnancy Discrimination Act was enacted which prohibited discrimination against women, in the form of firing, or denying a job or promotion. Also, if she is willing and able to work, she could not be forced to take a leave.
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Sexual harassment was declared as a form of illegal job discrimination.
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Violence Against Women Act was ratified which accorded strict penalties to sexual perpetrators and gave funding help to rape and violence victims.
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Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act was passed by President Obama which gives provision for victims of pay discrimination to register a complaint against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck.