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Elizabeth Cady Stanton and her friends were the first group of women to plan and carry out a specific and large-scale program
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Ada H. Kepley was the first woman to graduate law school. However, even if women graduated law school, women could still be denied the right to plead a client's case until 1971
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Lydia Taft was the first woman who officially voted in the United States
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President John F. Kennedy signed the Equal Pay Act to protect both men and women from sex-based wage discrimination
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The Civil Rights Act of 1957 gave women the right to serve on juries but it wasn't until 1973 that all states allowed it
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Before 1974, women could not open their own bank accounts without their husbands' permission
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U.S. Military Academy at West Point, U.S. Naval Academy at Annapolis, and the Air Force Academy finally accepted their first female students
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The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978 is meant to "prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy."
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Harvard Law School did not accept women applicants until 1977. Princeton and Yale admitted their first female students in 1969.
In Rajender v. University of Minnesota, Shyamala Rajender filed a lawsuit against the University of Minnesota for discriminating on the basis of sex and national origin. Rajender won the case in 1980. -
Although women had made amazing progress in the military for the past couple decades, they were not allowed to serve in the front lines until recently.
