A Women's Rights Movement

By Bellh27
  • Seneca Falls Woman's Rights Convection

  • Wyoming becomes the first State to allow Women to vote

  • The 19th Amendment grants the Women's Right to vote

  • Hattie Wyatt Caraway becomes the first women elected in the U.S. Senate from Arkansas

  • Medical use of Birth Control becomes legal in the U.S.

  • The Equal Pay act is passed granting equal wages for the same work, regardless of race, sex, religion, color, or national origin

  • The Civil Rights act passes prohibiting discrimination against race, color, religion, national origin, or sex

  • Title IX created to prohibit sex discrimination in aspects of education that receive federal funding

  • The Roe v. Wade decision makes abortion legal in the U.S.

  • The Women's Educational Equity Act is created to ensure nonsexist teaching materials are used for women and girls in education

  • Taylor v. Louisiana, denies the States the right to exclude women from Juries

  • Sandra Day O'Connor is the first woman is appointed as a U.S. Supreme Court Justice

  • March is declared as Women's History Month

  • Gender Equity and Education Act, created to train teachers in gender equity.

  • The United States v. Virginia decision was created so The Virginia Military Institute couldn't refuse to admit women. Created by Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg

  • Madeleine Albright becomes the first Woman U.S. Secretary of State

  • Condoleezza Rice is the first Black Woman U.S. Secretary of State

  • Nancy Pelosi becomes the first Woman to become the Speaker of the House

  • Hillary Clinton is the first woman to lead the ticket of a major party on a Presidential nominaton

  • Kamala Harris is sworn in as the first woman and woman of color Vice President of the Unites States

  • Roe v. Wade and Planned Parenthood v. Casey are overturned by the supreme court