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The National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is established to advocate for improved wages and working conditions for women.
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Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union to work toward the passage of a federal amendment to give women the vote.
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Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League, which evolves into the Planned Parenthood Federation of America in 1942.
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Mary McLeod Bethune organizes the National Council of Negro Women, a coalition of black women's groups that lobbies against job discrimination, racism, and sexism
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first lesbian organization in the United States, is founded. Although DOB originated as a social group, it later developed into a political organization to win basic acceptance for lesbians in the United States.
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In Griswold v. Connecticut, the Supreme Court strikes down the one remaining state law prohibiting the use of contraceptives by married couples.
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The first marital rape law is enacted in Nebraska, making it illegal for a husband to rape his wife.
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Meritor Savings Bank v. Vinson, the Supreme Court finds that sexual harassment is a form of illegal job discrimination
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In United States v. Virginia, the Supreme Court rules that the all-male Virginia Military School has to admit women in order to continue to receive public funding.
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The Supreme Court upholds the ban on the "partial-birth" abortion procedure.
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President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows victims of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck.
