Women In History

By missheatherheartbreak

  • Equal pay is asked for women teachers

    Equal pay is asked for women teachers
    A young teacher by the name of Susan B. Anthony asked for equal pay for women teachers.

  • First women's rights convention

    The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. After 2 days of debating at arguments 68 women and 32 men sign a Declaration of Sentiments.

  • First National Women's Rights Convention

    The First National Women's Rights Convention was helled in Worcester, Mass. Over a 1,000 people showed up.

  • Medical college

    the Female Medical College of Pennsylvania was established because women were not allowed to attend "men's" medical colleges and banned from memberships to the American Medical Association. Eventhough nursing was considered a female occupation most nurses in hospitals were men.

  • National Women's Sufferage Association

    Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The main goal of the organization was to achieve voting rights for women by adding an amendment to the Constitution.

  • Wyoming

    Wyoming passes the first women's suffage law.

  • Colorado

    Colorado was the first state to adopt an ammendement giving the women the right to vote.

  • NAWSA

    The National Women Suffrage Association and the American Women Suffrage Association merge to form the National American Woman Suffrage Association (NAWSA). As the movement's mainstream organization, NAWSA wages state-by-state campaigns to obtain voting rights for women.

  • WTUL

    The National Women's Trade Union League (WTUL) is created to work on and improve wages and working conditions for women.

  • federal amendment

    Alice Paul and Lucy Burns form the Congressional Union,they worked toward the passing a federal amendment to give women the right to vote. They later renamed themselves the National Women's Party. They picketed the White House and practiced other forms of civil disobedience.

  • Women Sufferage Amendment

    The federal woman suffrage amendment was introduced to congress. It was originally written by Susan B. Anthony .It is passed by the House of Representatives and the Senate. It is then sent to the states for ratification.

  • 19th Amendment

    The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.