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married women in work - study
63% of cities dismissed female teachers once they got married
75% of 1500 surveyed cities didn't hire married women in any profession -
Hattie Caraway - first woman elected into senate
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Amelia Earhart - first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic
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Frances Perkins - first woman to hold a job in the Presidential Cabinet
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Margert Sanger helps bring birth control case up
'united states vs One Package' case to the US Circuit Court of Appeals -
Marian Anderson becomes first African-American to perform at the White House
under order of Eleanor Roosevelt -
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WWII military
350,000 women serving in military
not in direct combat but as nurses, marines etc for WWII -
150,000 women serving in Women's Army Corps
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18 million women were in work
due to WWII -
4 million women fired from their jobs
to make room for returning men -
Women's Armed Forces Integration Act
passed by congress. authorised women to enlist in military alongside men (rather than in separate units) however they were not allowed to serve in combat -
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labour force participation rate
for women aged 20+ - nearly doubled in this time (32% to 61%) -
first six enlisted women sworn into US Navy
Kay Langdon, Wilma Marchal, Edna Young, Frances Devaney, Doris Robertson. and Ruth Flora -
first african-american women to enlist in marine corps
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Korean War
many servicewomen who had joined reserves in WWII were called up and taken seriously -
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women in work
46% of women in work but 75% of them working clerical jobs. Average woman earning 60% of average working men's salary -
Playboy magazine founded by Hefner in Chicago
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Marilyn Monroe's nudes posted
Playboy magazine used Monroe's nude without her consent, article was titled 'sweetheart of the month'. photographer (who paid her $50 to take them) sold them to Hefner without her consent. -
Daughters of Bilitis founded
first lesbian organisation (founded by 4 lesbian couples) -
Rosa Parks
arrested for refusing to get off the bus -
only 38% of women going to college
wsa 47% in 1920 -
Birth Control pill approved
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'Decade of Change for Women'
1 in 5 women with children under 6 and 1 In 4 women with children over 16 held paid jobs
conservative republicans started to recruit some female candidates -
President's Commission on the Status of Women
established by Kennedy -
Equal Pay Act
introduced by Kennedy - de jure change -
Gloria Steinem published 'When i was a playboy bunny'
article that showed sexist treatment of women in playboy -
Sarah Hughes became first female to administrate the Presidential Oath of Office
to LBJ -
birth control becomes legal for married couples
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Vietnam War
7000 military women served, mainly as nurses -
protest Miss America Pageant in Atlanta City
led by Robin Morgan. 100 women involved. Tossed playboy magazines, heels, corsets and girdles into a freedom trash can -
california introduced nation's first no-fault divorce law
2010 - all 50 states had introduced this. NY was the last -
first battered women's shelters created
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campaigning for womens rights in court begins
when accusing a man of rape, a woman had to provide a witness to testify (other than herself). in the trial, a women's sexual history could be brought up but a man's could not.
IS THIS STILL THE CASE??????? -
Ms. Magazine publishing began
nations first feminist magazine -
birth control becomes legal for unmarried couples
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Equal Employment Opportunity Act
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defeat of ERA
passed House of representative and senate
not ratified by states before deadline - never became law -
abortion legalised
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'Battle of the sexes' tennis match
Billy Jean King (woman) defeated Bobby Riggs in Houston, Texas. Riggs was opposed to feminism - 'if a woman wants to get in the headlines, she should have quintuplets'. 50million watched match -
supreme court rules it illegal to exclude women from jury pool
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marital rape becomes illegal in south dekota
first state to introduce this. 1993, illegal in all 50 states -
Pregnancy Discrimination Act
employment discrimination due to pregnancy or child birth is illegal -
Sally Ride became first female American astronaut
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Geraldine Ferraro nominated for VP
first woman to be nominated for Vice President by major party (democrats). not elected -
Kathryn D. Sullivan walks in space
first woman to do so -
Congress declares March as National Woman's History Month
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Wilma Mankiller elected as leader of Native American tribe
first woman to be -
Tailhook Scandal
more than 26 woman (14 of them officers) sexually harassed by naval and marine officers -
Anita Hill accuses Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment
he is still voted in a an associate justice of the supreme court -
'Year of the Woman'
more women then ever before elected into office (19/46 House seats and 3/7 senate seats) including first black female senator, Carol Mosely Braun