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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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Margaret Sanger opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y.
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
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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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Planned Parenthood was founded in 1942 and has worked as an advocate for education and personal liberties in the areas of birth control, family planning, and reproductive health care.
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The Daughters of Bilitis (DOB), the first lesbian organization in the United States, is founded. And it is later developed into a political organization to win basic acceptance for lesbians in the United States.
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Congress passes the Equal Pay Act, making it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job.
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Title IX of the Education Amendments bans sex discrimination in schools.
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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 Planned Parenthood v. Casey, the Supreme Court reaffirms the validity of a woman's right to abortion under Roe v. Wade. The case successfully challenges Pennsylvania's 1989 Abortion Control Act, which sought to reinstate restrictions previously ruled unconstitutional.
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President Obama signed the Lilly 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
