The Women's Rights Movement
Women's Rights Timeline
80%
of victims of hand-held weapons in war are women
80%
of all refugees and displaced people are women
70%
of people living in poverty are women.
Quick Facts
The Women's Rights Movement
began around 1848.
1848 - The first Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York.
1850 - The first National Women's Rights Convention in held in Worcester, Mass.
1869 - The National Women Woman Suffrage Association is formed by Susan B. Anthony and Elizabeth Cady Stanton.
1893 - Colorado is the first state to give women the right to vote.
1916 - The first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, NY.
1920 - Women are granted the right to vote! The 19th amendment to the constitution is signed in by the Secretary of State.
1942 - The Planned Parenthood federation of America is formed.
1960 - The Federal Drug Administration approves birth control pills.
1969 - California becomes the first state to adopt the a "no fault" divorce law.
1973 - Because of Roe v. Wade, the Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to safe and legal abortion, overriding the anti-abortion laws of many states.
1994 - The Violence Against Women act.
2003 - The Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act is passed.
2006 - President Obama signed the Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act, which allows victims of pay discrimination to file a complaint to the government agaisnt their employer.
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