Women's Rights Timeline

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  • Philadelphia committee led by Benjamin Franklin attempts to regulate waste disposal and water pollution.

  • Henry David Thoreau publishes Walden

  • The term ecology is coined in German as Oekologie by Ernst Heinrich Philipp August Haeckel

  • Petition for Universal Suffrage

    Petition for Universal Suffrage

    This Petition was part of the first national drive to focus on women's voting rights and includes signatures of prominent advocates like Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  • The term acid rain is coined by Robert Angus Smith in the book Air and Rain

  • The term smog is coined by Henry Antoine Des Voeux in a London meeting to express concern over air pollution

  • Women Marching in Suffragette Parade. Washington, DC

    Women Marching in Suffragette Parade. Washington, DC

    Women held a parade to help change their voting rights.
  • Petition from the Women of Georgia Protesting the Women's Suffrage Amendment

    Petition from the Women of Georgia Protesting the Women's Suffrage Amendment

    Citizens of Macon, Georgia, sent this petition to Congress asking them to vote against the women's suffrage movement.

  • US Congress created the National Park Service

  • H.J Res. 1, Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women

    H.J Res. 1, Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women

    H.J Res wrote a Joint Resolution Proposing an Amendment to the Constitution Extending the Right of Suffrage to Women.
  • 19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution

    19th Amendment to the U.S Constitution

    Congressional Joint Resolution Proposing the 19th Amendment.
  • Tennessee's Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Tennessee's Ratification of the 19th Amendment

    Tennessee was the 36th out of the 48 states to ratify this Amendment.
  • H.J Res. 75, Proposing an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

    H.J Res. 75, Proposing an Equal Rights Amendment to the Constitution

    The Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) was introduced to Congress for the First Time.
  • Hattie Wyatt Caraway, becomes first woman elected into Senate

    Hattie Wyatt Caraway, becomes first woman elected into Senate

    Hattie Wyatt Caraway ,of Arkansas becomes first woman elected into Senate.
  • France Perkins Becomes first female cabinet member

    France Perkins Becomes first female cabinet member

    France Perkins Becomes first female cabinet member, appointed secretary of labor by Franklin D. Roosevelt.
  • House Resolution 5056 Prohibits Discrimination in Pay on Account of Sex

    House Resolution 5056 Prohibits Discrimination in Pay on Account of Sex

    House Resolution 5056 Prohibits Discrimination in Pay on Account of Sex. This was introduced by Winifred Stanley and was the first to propose that employers be required to pay women equal pay for equal work.

  • Rachel Carson publishes Silent Spring

  • The Apollo 8 picture of Earthrise

  • First Earth Day – April 22. Millions of people gather in the United States for the first Earth Day. US Environmental Protection Agency established

  • Montreal Protocol on substances that deplete the ozone layer entered into force

  • The Kyoto Protocol was negotiated in Kyoto, Japan in December. Countries that ratify this protocol commit to reduce their emissions of carbon dioxide

  • U.S. rejects the Kyoto Protocol

  • U.S. announces it will cease participation in the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation

  • U.S. announces it will rejoin the Paris Agreement on climate change mitigation