Women and Civil Rights 1865-1992 By em2019 1869 NWSA and AWSA, rival suffrage organisations, founded 1874 Women's Christian Temperance Union 1890 Formation of the National American Women Suffrage Association (NAWSA); rival suffrage associations united 1917 Margaret Sanger set up first US birth-control clinic 1919 House of Representatives passed th women's suffrage (Nineteenth) Amendment 1933 Francis Perkins became the first woman in the presidential cabinet 1941 USA entered the Second World War. Seven million women supported the war effort 1957 Number of women and men voting was approximately equal for the first time 1963 Equal Pay Act 1963 Betty Friedan's 'The Feminine Mystique' 1966 National Organisation for Women founded 1972 Equal Rights Amendment passed by Congress but never ratified 1973 Roe v. Wade Supreme Court established a woman's right to abortion 1984 Geraldine Ferraro becomes first female vice presidential candidate of a major political party (Democratic Party)