Women in America

Events that influenced women’s lives

Civil war (1861-1865), abolition of slavery

World War I

World War II

Civil rights movement

Timeline of movement for women’s rights

Women’s suffrage

Women’s health

Women at work

Suffrage

1848

First women’s rights convention

1869 1869 1890 1893 1920

NWSA (NY)

AWSA(Boston)

NAWSA

Colorado grants suffrage to women

19 th amendment to the constitution

Work

1903

Women’s Trade union league

1963 1964 1967 1978

Equal Pay Act

Title VII Civil Rights Act

Discrimination against pregnant women bannedSexual harassment banned

L. B. J. Affirmative action

1986

Health

1916

First birth control clinic

1921 1936 1960 1973

Birth control league

Birth control information is not obscene

Birth control pills approved

Right to safe and legal abortion

Women’s organizations

StateNational

NOW FEMINISM

The Feminist Movement - also called women's liberation movement - is a social movement that seeks equal rights for women, giving them equal status with men and freedom to decide their own careers and life patterns.

National State

- Now- National Domestic

Violence- Family Violence

Prevention Fund

- Alabama coalition against rape

- Arizona social assault network

- Battered Women's Justice Project

The moral:

Women Rule