Important dates in women's rights history

By Cherrii
  • Women marching in Suffragette parade, Washington DC

  • !9th amendment to the United States Constitution

  • Tennessee's Ratification for the 19th amendment

  • H.J. Res. 75, proposing an equal rights amendment to the constitution

  • Hattie Wyatt Caraway of Arkansas, becomes the first women elected to U.S senate

  • Frances Perkins becomes the first female cabinet member appointed secretary of labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt

  • House Resolution 5056 prohibiting in pay on account of sex

  • The equal pay act is passed by Congress

  • Supreme Court in Roe V. Wade makes abortion legal

  • Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first women to serve on the supreme court