Unforgettable Women…

The Women’s rights

movement

Elizabeth Cady Stanton

•helped organize the 1848 Seneca Falls convention• where she insisted on leading in a demand for the vote for women•Opposed by her own husband• Stanton worked closely with Susan B. Anthony•wrote many speeches which Anthony traveled to deliver.

“Because man and woman are the complement of one another, we need woman's thought in national affairs to make a safe and stable government.”

Susan B. Anthony•Denied the right to speak at the temperance meeting (Albany, 1852)

•She organized the Woman's New York State Temperance Society

•Early Civil War era organized, Women’s National Loyal League

•Later fought to have the 14th amendment say “negro” and women’s suffrage

•Worked very hard for women’s suffrage

Lucretia Mott

•Created (with E.C. Stanton) the Senaca Falls convention

•Opened her home as part of the Underground Railroad during the Civil War

•Was one of the first women to campaign for women’s rights and suffrage

•Organized many groups and conventions for the woman’s movement

1840s- 19001848- Senaca Falls Convention formed by E.C. Stanton & L. Mott

1850 First National Women’s Rights Convention

1869- National Women’s Suffrage Association formed to achieve voting rights, formed by E.C. Stanton & S.B. Anthony

-Wyoming territory passes first women’s suffrage law

1893- Colorado is the first state to adopt an amendment allowing women the right to vote

1896- Utah & Idaho allow the vote to women

1900-1920

• 1903-National Women’s Trade Union league established- advocated improved wages and working conditions

• 1916 Margaret Sanger opens first birth control clinic in U.S., closed 10 days later and she is arrested

• By 1918 Washington, California, Oregon, Kansas, Arizona, Alaska, Illinois, Montana, Nevada, New York, Michigan, S. Dakota and Oklahoma allow women to vote.

• 1920-Dept. of Labor forms “Women’s Bureau”• And…..

19th Amendment

• “The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex. Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation”

Meaning…WOMEN CAN FINALLY VOTE!!

1921-1965

• 1923- Margaret Sanger’s second clinic opens with support of federal courts

• 1936-Mail information about contraceptives is no longer considered ‘obscene’, mandate by federal law

• 1960-FDA approves birth control pill• 1963-Betty Friedan publishes the Feminine

Mystique– Congress also passes Equal Pay Act

• 1964-Title VII of Civil Rights Act passes- bars discrimination of employment based on race or sex

1965-current

• 1965-Supreme Court strikes down the last state law banning use of contraceptives by married couples

• 1966- National Organization for Women (NOW) formed

• 1967-affirmative action expanded to cover discrimination based on gender

• 1972-Supreme Court rules that right to privacy act includes an unmarried person’s right to use contraceptives

1965 to current

• 1972-Title IX of Education Amendment bans sex discrimination in schools

• 1973-Roe v. Wade• 1986-Supreme Court rules sexual

harassment is a form of illegal job discrimination

• 1994-Violence against women act tightens federal penalties for sex offenders, funds services for rape & domestic violence victims

Great Women in history