Subcategories - Gender Issues, Sexism

  1. Minor v. Happersett
  2. Roe v. Wade
  3. Alice Paul
  4. Amelia Earhart
  5. Anna Howard Shaw
  6. Barbara Walters
  7. Beauvoir’s The Second Sex Anticipates the Women’s Movement
  8. Beijing Hosts U.N. Fourth World Conference on Women
  9. Belva A. Lockwood
  10. Berdache
  11. Bern Conference Prohibits Night Work for Women
  12. Betty Friedan
  13. British Women Gain the Vote
  14. Cable Act
  15. Canadian Bill of Rights Prohibits Sexual Discrimination
  16. Carrie Chapman Catt
  17. Carry Nation
  18. Catharine A. MacKinnon
  19. Catharine Beecher
  20. Church of England Ordains Women
  21. Citadel Graduates First Woman Cadet
  22. Clara Zetkin
  23. Congress Passes the Equal Pay Act
  24. Congress Prohibits Discrimination in the Granting of Credit
  25. Congress Votes to Admit Women to the Armed Services Academies
  26. Controversy Arises over Estrogen and Heart Attacks
  27. Dame Millicent Garrett Fawcett
  28. Declaration of the Rights of Women
  29. Dorothea Beale
  30. D’Eaubonne Coins the Term “Ecofeminism”
  31. Edna St. Vincent Millay
  32. Elizabeth Blackwell
  33. Elizabeth Cady Stanton
  34. Emma Willard
  35. Emmeline Pankhurst
  36. Equal Credit Opportunity Act
  37. Equal Pay Act
  38. The Equal Pay Act Becomes Law
  39. The Equal Rights Amendment Passes Congress but Fails to be Ratified
  40. The Family Planning Services Act Extends Reproductive Rights
  41. Female Directors Attain Prominence
  42. Finland Grants Women Suffrage
  43. First Birth Control Clinic Is Established in Amsterdam
  44. The First Female Conservative Rabbi Is Ordained
  45. Frances Willard
  46. Franklin D. Roosevelt Appoints Perkins as Secretary of Labor
  47. Gender Relations and Roles
  48. Harriet Beecher Stowe
  49. Highest-Ranking Army Woman Charges Sexual Harassment
  50. Indian Parliament Approves Women’s Rights Legislation