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College Education opened to the Women.
Ohio's new Oberlin College was the first to open its doors to a few women. This provided the women to study in higher education along with young men, and the education showed women to become more than just housewives. -
First Education Center for Female College Students
Founded in Massachusetts in 1837 by Mary Lyon, a chemist, Mount Holyoke Female Seminary provided the women population the higher education they wanted. -
Queen Victoria in Britain Empire
Queen Victoria came to the throne. Many would have expected there to be an improvement in the rights of women but this did not occur for this reason: Queen Victoria and men did not believe in the women's rights. -
Married Woman's Property Act
In 1848 New York's Married Woman's Property Act gave wives some control of their own resources. Although the states passed legislation naming marital property as community property, husbands were the ones who managed and disposed of the property. Only if the husband died was the wife allowed to manage the property. -
First Women Right Convention
Reformers gathered in Seneca Falls, New York for the first convention for social, civil, and religious rights of women. Many of these women were also abolitionists against slavery. They formed a list of grievances, called the Declaration of Sentiments, based on similar claims made in the Declaration of Independence. This declaration was read to an audience of 300 at the First Women’s Rights Convention, officially starting the women’s suffrage movement. -
First National Womens Rights Convention
The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in Worcester, Massachussets, attracting more than 1,000 participants. National conventions are held yearly (except for 1857) through 1860. This increased the visibility of the early women's right movement. -
First Woman to Keep her Name
Lucy Stone becomes first woman on record to keep her own name after marriage, setting a trend among women who are consequently known as "Lucy Stoners." This represented the independence of a woman within her marriage, -
Divorce and Matrimonial Causes Act
Matrimonial Causes Act allowed the women to be able to divorce their husbands who are abusive. This gave an equal rights to husbands and wives in their marriages. -
First Women's Rights Movement in Britain
A committee to campaign for women's suffrage is formed in Manchester, the first of many in Britain. This set of a chain reaction which led to the formings of many more of these types of comittees. -
American Equal Rights Association Founded
The American Equal Rights Association is founded, the first organization in the US to advocate women's suffrage. Its goal was to join the cause of gender equality with that of racial equality. Tensions between proponents of the dissimilar goals caused the AERA to split apart in 1869. -
The National Labor Union backs Equal Pay
The National Labor Union, one of the nation’s first organized labor advocacy groups, pushes for equal pay for equal work, the concept that a woman must be paid the same as a man for doing the same or equivalent job with the same qualifications.
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Associations to Achieve Women's Voting Rights
American Woman Suffrage Association is formed and focused exclusively on voting rights for women through amendments to individual state constitutions. And similarly, on the same year, American Equal Rights Association was created. This organization’s primary goal was to gain voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitutions. These two organizations have the same goal to achieve the women’s rights to vote. -
Wyoming's Women Suffrage Law
The territory of Wyoming passes the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory. This symbolized that women started to become more out in the public llike men. -
Married Women's Property Act of 1870
The Married Women's Property Act of 1870 provided that wages and property which a wife earned through her own work would be regarded as her separate property and, in 1882, this principle was extended to all property, regardless of its source or the time of its acquisition.This gave married women a separate statutory estate, and released them from coverture. (Britain) -
Utah Women's Suffrage
Utah entered the Union as a state and re-introduced full women suffrage in its new state constitution after having them taken away by the Edmunds-Tucker Act. Utah was the second state in the United States to do so. -
Equal Pay For Women Federal Employees
A federal law that grants female federal employees equal pay for equal work is enacted.This right was not extended to the majority of female employees who work for private companies or state and local governments. -
Women's Education Union
1871 Britain's Shirreff sisters, Maria and Emily created the National Union for Promoting the Higher Education of Women.This provided new secondary schools to educate girls from various classes. -
The First Women Presidential Candidate of United States
Victoria Woodhull, an activist U.S. journalist and stockbroker, attempted a run for president on a third-party ticket in 1872, supported by the Equal Rights Party. This stirred up the controversy in US because it was the first time that a female ran as a candidate for a president and an African American as a vice president. -
National American Women Suffrage Association
The American Equal Rights 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. -
New Zealand First to Allow Womens Suffrage
New Zealand is the first country in the world to allow women the right to vote.The Electoral Bill granting women the franchise was given Royal Assent by Governor Lord Glasgow on 19 September 1893, and women voted for the first time in the election held on 28 November 1893.
