Women's Rights

By AustinThompson15

  • The push begins

    The first National Women's Rights convention takes place in Worcester, Massechusetts

  • NWSA

    Susam B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the NWSA (National Woman Suffrage Association)

  • A Small Victory

    Wyoming allows women to vote

  • Better Wages Makes Front Pages

    National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) advocates better wages for women

  • Stubborn Picketeers

    Alice Paul and Lucy Burns the National Wonen's Party (NWP) And Picket President Wilson, Even During the War

  • Birth Control

    Margaret Sanger founds the American Birth Control League that becomes Planned Parenthood in 1942

  • Approved

    FDA approves birth control pills

  • Equal Pay, Day by Day

    Congress establishes the Equal Pay Act

  • Griswold v. Connecticut

    Surpreme Court struck down the final state law banning the use of contraceptives by married couples

  • "No Faults"

    California instated the "No Fault" divorce law which allowed divorce with mutual consent