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