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The colonies adopt the English system decreeing women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings
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All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote
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The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own names – with permission from their husbands.
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The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York. The Declaration of Sentiments is signed by 300 women and men.
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Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the National Woman Suffrage Association. The primary goal of the organization is to achieve voting rights for women by means of a Congressional amendment to the Constitution.
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Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa, making her the first woman lawyer. Ada H. Kepley becomes the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school.
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Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas.
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The first state (Wyoming) grants women the right to vote in all elections.
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Margaret Sanger, two years after opening a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, wins her suit in New York to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes.
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The 19th Amendment to the Constitution, granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State Bainbridge Colby.
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The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.
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Roe V. Wade grants the legalization of women to have abortions.
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The Supreme Court denies states the right to exclude women from juries
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Paula Hawkins of Florida, a Republican, becomes the first woman to be elected to the U.S. Senate without following her husband or father in the job.
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Sandra Day O'Connor becomes first woman to serve on the Supreme Court.
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Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space
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Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House.
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Katie Higgins is the first female to become a Blue Angels Pilot
