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Woman Suffrage Movement Timeline
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1st Women's Rights Convention
Seneca Falls, New York is the location for the first Women's Rights Convention. Elizabeth Cady Stanton writes "The Declaration of Sentiments" creating the agenda of women's activism for decades to come. -
Property Rights to Women
The first state constitution in California extends property rights to women. -
1st National Women's Rights Convention
Worcester, Massachusetts, is the site of the first National Women's Rights Convention. Frederick Douglass, Paulina Wright Davis, Abby Kelley Foster, William Lloyd Garrison, Lucy Stone and Sojourner Truth are in attendance. A strong alliance is formed with the Abolitionist Movement. -
Women's Property Rights
The issue of women's property rights is presented to the Vermont Senate by Clara Howard Nichols. This is a major issue for the Suffragists. -
The World's Temperance Convention
Women delegates, Antoinette Brown and Susan B. Anthony, are not allowed to speak at The World's Temperance Convention held in New York City. -
1861-1865 Halt to Suffrage Movement
During the Civil War, efforts for the suffrage movement come to a halt. Women put their energies toward the war effort. -
American Equal Rights Association
Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Susan B. Anthony form the American Equal Rights Association, an organization dedicated to the goal of suffrage for all regardless of gender or race. -
15th Amendment
The Fifteenth Amendment gave black men the right to vote. NWSA refused to work for its ratification and instead the members advocate for a Sixteenth Amendment that would dictate universal suffrage. Frederick Douglass broke with Stanton and Anthony over the position of NWSA. The Woman’s Journal is founded and edited by Mary Livermore, Lucy Stone, and Henry Blackwell. -
Anti- Suffrage Party
Victoria Woodhull addresses the House Judiciary Committee, arguing women’s rights to vote under the fourteenth amendment. The Anti-Suffrage Party is founded. -
Abigail Scott Duniway
Abigail Scott Duniway convinces Oregon lawmakers to pass laws granting a married woman’s rights such as starting and operating her own business, controlling the money she earns, and the right to protect her property if her husband leaves. -
A Woman Suffrage Amendmen
A Woman Suffrage Amendment is proposed in the U.S. Congress. When the 19th Amendment passes forty-one years later, it is worded exactly the same as this 1878 Amendment. -
National Council of Women
The National Council of Women in the United States is established to promote the advancement of women in society. -
American Federation of Labor
NWSA and AWSA merge and the National American Woman Suffrage Association is formed. Stanton is the first president. The Movement focuses efforts on securing suffrage at the state level. Wyoming is admitted to the Union with a state constitution granting woman suffrage. The American Federation of Labor declares support for woman suffrage. The South Dakota campaign for woman suffrage loses. -
New York State Constitutional Convention
600,000 signatures are presented to the New York State Constitutional Convention in a failed effort to bring a woman suffrage amendment to the voters. -
Women's Trade Union League
Mary Dreier, Rheta Childe Dorr, Leonora O'Reilly, and others form the Women's Trade Union League of New York, an organization of middle- and working-class women dedicated to unionization for working women and to woman suffrage. -
Women's Political Union
The Women’s Political Union organizes the first suffrage parade in New York City. -
National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS)
The National Association Opposed to Woman Suffrage (NAOWS) is organized. Led by Mrs. Arthur Dodge, its members included wealthy, influential women, some Catholic clergymen, distillers and brewers, urban political machines, Southern congressmen, and corporate capitalists. -
The National Federation of Women’s Clubs
The National Federation of Women’s Clubs, which had over two million women members throughout the U.S., formally endorses the suffrage campaign. -
1st Woman in the House of Representatives
Jeannette Rankin of Montana is the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. Woodrow Wilson states that the Democratic Party platform will support suffrage. -
Suffrage Amendment
Representative Rankin opens debate on a suffrage amendment in the House. The amendment passes. The amendment fails to win the required two thirds majority in the Senate. President Woodrow Wilson states his support for a federal woman suffrage amendment. President Wilson addresses the Senate about adopting woman suffrage at the end of World War I. -
19th Amendment
The Senate finally passes the Nineteenth Amendment and the ratification process begins. -
Voting Rights
Three quarters of the state legislatures ratify the Nineteenth Amendment. American Women win full voting rights. -
Me Too Movement Starts
Activist Tarana Burke creates the "Me Too" movement to help sexual assault victims in underprivileged communities in the United States. -
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Times Up Movement
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Women's March on Washington
On the first full day of Donald Trump’s presidency, millions of people participate in the Women’s March on Washington to support gender equality and civil rights. While the March is based in Washington, D.C., there are other protests in cities around the world. The Women’s March on Washington is believed to be the largest single-day demonstration in U.S. history. -
Times Up Legal Defense Fund
By this time, the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund had already received more than 1,700 requests for help from people across a broad range of industries outside of Hollywood including construction, government, and hospitality. According to the National Women's Law Center (NWLC), which is administering the fund, 98 percent of the requests were from women, but there were some from men as well. -
The Start of Times Up
The Time's Up campaign is officially launched with its own open letter signed by 400 women, including Meryl Streep, Mila Kunis, Gwyneth Paltrow, Nicole Kidman, Octavia Spencer, Jennifer Lawrence, Sarah Jessica Parker, and Jennifer Aniston. The letter begins "Dear sisters" and notes that the group is "committed to holding our own workplaces accountable," as well as "pushing for safe and effective change to make the entertainment industry a safe and equitable place for everyone." -
Times Up President & CEO
The organization names WNBA president Lisa Borders as its official president and CEO. “We are in effect hopeful we are going to change the world,” Borders told Fortune. “We will do it incrementally. It will not be dramatic shifts overnight. But we will work in each one of our focus areas and it will be an iterative process.” -
Golden Globes
The magnitude of the movement is visually represented at the awards ceremony, where nearly every guest wore black as a visual representation of their statement of solidarity. Celebrities wore “Time’s Up” pins and vocalized their push for change during red carpet interviews. -
2nd Women's March
Millions participate in the second annual Women's March -
The Oscars
The #MeToo and Time’s Up movements come to the Oscars. During a dedicated segment, Annabella Sciorra, Ashley Judd, and Salma Hayek, three of Weinstein’s many accusers, spoke of the movements and the changes they hope to see take place in Hollywood and beyond. -
As of Today
More than 3,400 women and men have been connected to legal resources through the Time's Up Legal Defense Fund, according to the initiative's website. Two-thirds of those who contact the fund identify as low-wage workers. The network has more than 800 attorneys across the country who are taking on the cases.