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Women's Rights
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Helen Magill
Helen Magill completed her Ph.D. in Greek in 1877 at Boston University -
Frances Willard is elected President of the WCTU
Willard was completely devoted to the temperence cause and five years after resigning as a dean of women and professor at Northwestern University, she was elected president of the newly formed Woman's Christian Temperence Union. -
From Cult of Domesticity to Victorian Lady
During the late 1880's and the 1890's, women were expected to create an artistic enviroment so her family could improve culturally. -
American Red Cross Founded
Clara Barton founded the organization the American Red Cross. -
Department Stores
Department stores became popular in the 1880's and 1890's because they served as a social, elite club for women who were financially sound. -
WCTU Reaches 150,000 Members
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Ida Wells Barnett leads anti Lynching Campaign
Ida Wells Barnett led a campaign against lynching in America after a hostile white group destroyed where she worked and led to her to move to Chicago from Memphis . Barnett was also very active outside the “Women’s sphere” as a suffragist, journalist and civil rights crusader. -
Garment Strike
Women in New York went on strike from work until their work environment was made safer and healthier for them to work in. -
Womens Peace Party Founded
Womens Peace Party founded by Jane Adamms with the help of Carrie Chapman Cat -
Woman Get More Jobs
The number of women in white collar jobs such as schoolteachers, secretaries, typists, clerks and telephone operators went from 949,000 in 1900 to 3.4 million in 1920. -
Birth Control
Margaret Sanger organized the American Birth Control League. -
Married Women Urged to Stay At Home
Married women were urged to stay at home and to stop taking jobs away from unemployed males. Some cities wouldn’t hire married female teachers; other places fired them if they were married -
Campaign to Defeat the ERA
Congress approved the Equal Rights Amendement. -
Women and Domestic Violence
The Violence Against Women Act was passed. -
Kolstad v. American Dental Association
The Supreme Court rules in Kolstad v. American Dental Association that a woman can sue for punitive damages for sex discrimination if the anti-discrimination law was violated with malice or indifference to the law, even if that conduct was not especially severe. -
Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education
In Jackson v. Birmingham Board of Education, the Supreme Court rules that Title IX, which prohibits discrimination based on sex, also inherently prohibits disciplining someone for complaining about sex-based discrimination. It further holds that this is the case even when the person complaining is not among those being discriminated against. -
Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act
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. Previously, victims (most often women) were only allowed 180 days from the date of the first unfair paycheck. This Act is named after a former employee of Goodyear who alleged that she was paid 15–40% less than her male counterparts, which was later found to be accurate.
