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Index: Women's Rights
Jan 11,
1885
Alice Paul, Suffragist Leader, Equal Rights Advocate, is Born
Mar 2,
1907
Expatriation Act Strips Citizenship From Women Who Marry Foreigners
Dec 2,
1917
Dorothy Day, Seven Other Suffragists, to Sue for Treatment in Jail
Nov 2,
1920
Women Vote For First Time in Federal Elections
Apr 6,
1921
President Harding Promises to Act on Women’s Equality
Sep 22,
1922
Cable Act Grants Women Citizenship Independent of Husband’s Status
Nov 19,
1924
Women’s Groups Recommend Appointment of Women to NY State Board of Regents
May 12,
1925
OK to Issue Passports in a Woman’s Maiden Name
Jan 19,
1926
National Woman’s Party Protests Exclusion From Conference on Protective Legislation for Women
Oct 2,
1929
Liberal Catholic Priest Opposes Equal Rights Amendment for Women
Oct 9,
1929
National Woman’s Party Begins Radio Series on NBC
Apr 6,
1937
Julia Sims First Woman Foreperson of a Federal Grand Jury
Jul 13,
1940
Equal Rights Amendment Divides Women at Democratic Party Convention
Jun 21,
1946
United Nations Establishes Commission on the Status of Women
Jun 12,
1948
Women’s Armed Services Integration Act is Passed
Jan 25,
1950
Senate Approves Equal Rights Amendment for Women by Vote of 63-19
Apr 4,
1950
Burnita Matthews Confirmed as First Female U.S. District Court Judge
May 17,
1954
President Eisenhower: “Women: Where Are They Not Equal?”
Dec 14,
1961
President Kennedy Creates Commission on the Status of Women
Jun 10,
1963
President Kennedy Signs Equal Pay Act
Jun 30,
1966
The National Organization for Women (NOW) is Founded
May 7,
1969
Women Picket White House – FBI Sees National Security Threat!
Mar 18,
1970
Feminists Stage Sit-In at “Ladies Home Journal,” Demand Liberation of Magazine
Apr 13,
1970
Nine Women’s Liberation Activists Arrested for Sit-in at Grove Press, Pioneering Anti-Censorship Publisher
Jan 15,
1971
National Press Club Admits Women Reporters
Jun 17,
1971
Jeanne M. Holm Promoted, First Woman Brigadier General, U.S. Air Force
Dec 4,
1971
ACLU Creates Pioneering Women’s Rights Project –With Ruth Bader Ginsburg as Director
Jun 23,
1972
Women’s Sports Boosted – Title IX Signed Into Law
Feb 4,
1973
“Women’s Lobby” Adjusts Lobbying Priorities in the Wake of “Roe”
Jun 21,
1973
Help Wanted: Sex-Segregated Want Ads Unconstitutional
Mar 19,
1975
Supreme Court Strikes Down Sex Discrimination in Social Security Benefits
Jul 1,
1985
Pauli Murray, Civil Rights Pioneer, Feminist, Civil Libertarian, Dies
Jun 19,
1986
Supreme Court Recognizes Sexual Harassment as Violation of Title VII
Apr 5,
1992
March for Women’s Lives in Washington
Jun 14,
1993
President Clinton Nominates Ruth Bader Ginsburg for Supreme Court
Jun 26,
1996
VMI Ordered to Admit Women
Jan 29,
2009
President Obama Signs Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act into Law
Apr 29,
2010
Women Allowed to Serve on Navy Submarines
Sep 7,
2016
Woman WW II Veteran Wins Right to Burial at Arlington Cemetary
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