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Seneca Falls Convention
The First women's convention "to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman." Stanton created a Declaration of Sentiments as well as eleven resolutions. She believed women had a natural right to equality in all spheres. Stanton believed that it was the duty of women to secure for themselves the right to vote. This was the beginning. -
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The Strive Against Discrimination and Towards Equality
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Victoria Claflin Woodhull
Victoria was the first female canidate to run for the President of the United States. She was called "Mrs. Satin" for advocating free love. -
Plessy v. Ferguson
Plessy v. FergusonPlessy decided to test the 1890 law establishing "whites only" train cars. The US Supreme Court declared the principle of "Separate but Equal" and minority segregation. -
19th Amendment
Women recieve the right to vote. Some tactics used were: parades, silent vigils, and hunger strikes. Their opponents often jailed and physically abused these women. -
WWII
During this war women took over for men, demonstrating their independance, and their ability to work. Women worked in the Red Cross, WASPS, or support at home through jobs. Though they were discriminated, they proved themselves. -
Executive Order 9981
President Truman signed executive order which required the “equality of treatment and opportunity for all persons in the armed services without regard to race, color, religion or national origin.” -
Brown v. Board of Education
7 year old Linda Brown had to walk across the unsafe railroad tracks to get to the bus stop when there was a nicer school in her neighborhood. Because it was an all-white school, they had to go across town. The NAACP takes this to the state supreme court but the state rules that it does not violate the separate but equal doctrine established under Plessy. Even though they lost, the judge said Plessy was being violated because children's ciriculum can not be separate but equal. -
Little Rock Nine
After the ruling in Brown v. Board of Education declared separate was not equal nine African American students chosen by Daisy Bates attempted to integrate in a white school. President Truman had to send federal forces to make sure these students were not mobbed when entering the school. -
Equal Pay Act
This prohibited sex discrimination, and thus prohibited giving more payment to someone of a different sex doing the same job. The purpose of this act was to correct the conditions from unfair method of competition. -
Civil Rights Act
This prohibited discrimination hiring, promoting, or firing based on sex and race. Section 703(a) states employers were prohibited to: "fail or refuse to hire or to discharge any individual, or otherwise to discriminate against any individual with respect to his compensation, terms, conditions or privileges or employment, because of such individual's race, color, or national origin. The EEOC (Equal Employment Opportunity Commission) to enforce the law. -
Voting Rights Act
President Lyndon Johnson singed this law which prohibited prohibited literacy tests, and send Federal examiners to make sure the new law was enforced. By the end of 1965 a quarter of a million new black voters were registered. By 1966 nine out of the thirteen southern states had at least 50% votes coming from African Americans. -
Executive Order No. 11246
This policy provided equal opportunity in Federal employment; prohibiting discrimination in employment because of "race, color, religion, sex or national origin," and provide equal opportunity. -
Women-Only Branches in Military Eliminated
During the Vietnam War women are integrated into all branches of the U.S. military and become all-volunteer forces. Later in 1976 U.S. military academies will be required to admit women. -
Employment Discrimination Against Pregnant Women Banned
Before the Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 was passed women were expected to quit their jobs when they became pregnant! Back then, pregnancy was widely regarded as a disabling condition. This Law makes it illegal to discriminate against pregnant workers, -
Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act
This federal law takes away the prior law that stated you had to bring your case to sue in 180 days. Ledbetter sued her
employer, Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co., when she realized she was paid much less than her male co-workers. The Court threw out her case because she did not meet this deadline. This deadline is no longer realavent, and equal pay is again enforced. -
United States v. Woodbury Gardens Redevelopment Co. Owners Corp. (E.D.N.Y.
A housing cooperative for senior adults in Woodbury, New York refused to allow a bed-ridden woman suffering from a variety of sicknesses to keep an animal during. The husband was threatened of eviction after she died if he did not pay fines related to the dog. The settlement agreement requires the defendant to pay the husband $58,750 in damages, adopt an assistance animal policy, attend fair housing training. -
Trafficking
President Obama gave a speech regarding the recent trafficking issues. Government has not addressed a lot of the problems in courtrooms because there is few prosecutions and an underidentification of human trafficking. This is discrimination of women and chidlren to a major degree! -
The EEOC holds a public meeting on unlawful discrimination against pregnant workers
Even after 35 years since it was made unlawful to discriminate pregnant women it is still a problem. EEOC Chair Jacqueline A. Berrien stated this discrimination is “unnecessarily depriving women of the means to support their families.”
