Categories - Women’s Issues

  1. Elizabeth I
  2. Elizabeth I Is Excommunicated by Pius V
  3. Elizabeth II
  4. Ellen Taaffe Zwilich
  5. Ellen Terry
  6. Elouise Cobell
  7. Emily Greene Balch
  8. Emma Goldman
  9. Emma Willard
  10. Emmeline Pankhurst
  11. Enheduanna
  12. Enheduanna Becomes First Named Author
  13. Episcopal Church Ordains Its First Woman Priest
  14. Equal Credit Opportunity Act
  15. Equal Employment Opportunity Act
  16. Equal Pay Act
  17. The Equal Pay Act Becomes Law
  18. The Equal Rights Amendment Passes Congress but Fails to be Ratified
  19. Euthenics Calls for Pollution Control
  20. Eva Perón
  21. The Family Planning Services Act Extends Reproductive Rights
  22. Fanny Bullock Workman
  23. FDA Approves Sale of Mifepristone for Nonsurgical Abortion
  24. FDA Approves the Birth Control Pill
  25. Female Directors Attain Prominence
  26. Ferdinand II and Isabella I
  27. Finland Grants Women Suffrage
  28. First Birth Control Clinic Is Established in Amsterdam
  29. The First Female Conservative Rabbi Is Ordained
  30. The First Successful Human Embryo Transfer Is Performed
  31. Flannery O’Connor
  32. Florence Nightingale
  33. Former Pakistani Prime Minister Bhutto Is Sentenced for Corruption
  34. Fossey Murdered over Efforts to Protect Mountain Gorillas
  35. Frances Perkins
  36. Frances Willard
  37. Frances Xavier Cabrini
  38. Franklin D. Roosevelt Appoints Perkins as Secretary of Labor
  39. Frédéric Joliot and Irène Joliot-Curie Develop the First Artificial Radioactive Element
  40. George Eliot
  41. George Sand
  42. Georgia O’Keeffe
  43. Geraldine Ferraro
  44. Gertrude Stein
  45. Gloria Steinem
  46. Golda Meir
  47. Gordimer Wins the Nobel Prize in Literature
  48. Graham Debuts Appalachian Spring with Copland Score
  49. Great Britain’s Princess Diana Dies in Paris Car Crash
  50. Greek Poet Sappho Dies