Categories - Women’s Issues

  1. Bathsheba
  2. Battle of Flodden
  3. Baulieu Develops RU-486, a Pill That Induces Abortion
  4. Beatrice Webb and Sidney Webb
  5. Beatrix Jones Farrand
  6. Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Anticipates the Women’s Movement
  7. Beginning of the Fronde
  8. Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
  9. Belva A. Lockwood
  10. Berenice II
  11. Bern Conference Prohibits Night Work for Women
  12. Bessie Smith Records “Downhearted Blues”
  13. Betsy Ross
  14. Betty Friedan
  15. Bevis Describes Amniocentesis as a Method for Disclosing Fetal Genetic Traits
  16. Bhutto Becomes the First Woman Elected to Lead a Muslim Country
  17. Bhutto’s Pakistan People’s Party Returns to Power
  18. Billie Holiday Begins Her Recording Career
  19. Billie Jean King
  20. Birth Control Pills Are Tested in Puerto Rico
  21. Boudicca
  22. Boudicca Leads Revolt Against Roman Rule
  23. Boudicca’s Rebellion
  24. British Queen Elizabeth Begins Paying Taxes After Castle Fire
  25. British Women Gain the Vote
  26. The Brontë Sisters
  27. Brown Gives Birth to the First “Test-Tube” Baby
  28. Cable Act
  29. Cai Yan Composes Poetry About Her Capture by Nomads
  30. Calamity Jane
  31. Campbell Becomes Canada’s First Woman Prime Minister
  32. Canada’s Pay Equity Act
  33. Canadian Bill of Rights Prohibits Sexual Discrimination
  34. Canadian Women Gain the Vote
  35. Carrie Chapman Catt
  36. Carry Nation
  37. Castilian Civil War
  38. Catharine A. MacKinnon
  39. Catharine Beecher
  40. Catherine de Médicis
  41. Catherine Howard
  42. Catherine of Aragon
  43. Catherine Parr
  44. Catherine the Great
  45. Catherine the Great’s Instruction
  46. Cather’s My Ántonia Promotes Regional Literature
  47. Celebration of the Eleusinian Mysteries
  48. Chanel Defines Modern Women’s Fashion
  49. Charlotte Forten
  50. Cheryl Crawford