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 * **Alice Stokes Paul** (January 11, 1885 – July 9, 1977) was an [|American] [|suffragist] and activist. Along with [|Lucy Burns] and others, she led a successful campaign for [|women's suffrage] that resulted in the passage of the [|Nineteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution] in 1920.[|[][|1][|]]
 * **Mary Church Terrell** (September 23, 1863 – July 24, 1954), daughter of former slaves, was one of the first African-American women to earn a college degree. She became an [|activist] who led several important associations and worked for [|civil rights] and [|suffrage].
 * Lucy Stone (1818-1893)
 * 1850 Worcester First National Woman’s Rights Convention
 * was president of the 1856 National Woman’s Rights Convention held in New York, New York.
 * . Lucy Stone and Julia Ward Howe led others to form the American Woman Suffrage Association, which chose to focus on state suffrage amendments
 * nnedy almost 50 years ago, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. Today, we have narrowed that gap, but women still earn about 80 cents on the dollar compared to men.
 * While women hold nearly half of today's jobs, and their earnings account for a significant portion of the household income that sustains the financial well-being of their families, they are still experiencing a gap in pay compared to men's wages for similar work.
 * nnedy almost 50 years ago, women were earning an average of 59 cents on the dollar compared to men. Today, we have narrowed that gap, but women still earn about 80 cents on the dollar compared to men.
 * The federal law prohibiting the dissemination of contraceptive information through the mail is modified and [|birth control] information is no longer classified as obscene. Throughout the 1940s and 50s, birth control advocates are engaged in numerous legal suits.
 * The [|Food and Drug Administration] approves birth control pills.
 * 1960 on 2011-11-14 -
 * President [|John Kennedy] establishes the President's Commission on the Status of Women and appoints [|Eleanor Roosevelt] as chairwoman. The report issued by the Commission in 1963 documents substantial discrimination against women in the workplace and makes specific recommendations for improvement, including fair hiring practices, paid maternity leave, and affordable child care
 * 1961 on 2011-11-14 -
 * June 10 Congress passes the [|Equal Pay Act], making it illegal for employers to pay a woman less than what a man would receive for the same job.
 * 1963 on 2011-11-14 -
 * The National Organization for Women (NOW) is founded by a group of feminists including [|Betty Friedan]
 * 1966, 3 person? on 2011-11-14 -
 * As a result of [|//Roe// v. //Wade//,] the Supreme Court establishes a woman's right to safe and legal abortion, overriding the anti-abortion laws of many states.
 * 1973 on 2011-11-14 -
 * The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women. Under the Act, a woman cannot be fired or denied a job or a promotion because she is or may become pregnant, nor can she be forced to take a pregnancy leave if she is willing and able to work.

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 * From beginning to end there is no show of dislike for the advocates of woman suffrage, and if Mrs. Johnson has what the ladies call a spite against any of the suffragists, it does not appear in her writing. The book might have been written by a lawyer, so cold and dispassionate is it when considering the arguments of the advocates of woman suffrage
 * Both Helen and her husband were both active in the anti-suffrage movement. From 1894–1896 she was editor of the American Woman’s Journal and founded the Meridian Club in 1886. Rossiter was author of a pamphlet titled, //Why Women Do Not Want the Ballot//, and in 1897 Helen wrote what is often considered the best summary of the arguments against woman suffrage: //Woman and the Republic//. In which she argued that women didn't need the vote in order to establish more legal, economic and other equality and that women's role in the domestic sphere was essential for maintenance of the American republic. She was openly critical of the writing of [|Elizabeth Cady Stanton] and her work [|The Woman's Bible] linking it to radicalism and [|socialism].[|[][|1][|]] During her time as an anti-suffragette activist she addressed several [|legislative committee] in Albany and Washington and wrote many newspaper articles and pamphlets on the subject. In 1910 she founded the Guidon Club, an anti-suffragette organisation dedicated to the study of politics and government.[|[][|3][|]][|[][|4][|]]
 * Helen Johnson anti woments suffrage. Very interesting point of view. Consider for one of my three people. on 2011-11-11 -
 * Over the past seven generations, dramatic social and legal changes have been accomplished that are now so accepted that they go unnoticed by people whose lives they have utterly changed
 * The Women's Rights Movement marks July 13, 1848 as its beginning.
 * "A convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman.
 * In early America, a woman’s life tended to center around farm and family. For the most part labor was observed, whereby, men did the outside work such as planting and harvesting the crops while the women worked inside the house, transforming the raw products into usable commodities
 * Women swept, scrubbed, polished, made their own brooms, soap and polish. They carried water, made starch, ironed, carried firewood, built fires, and made candles. They sewed and made everything and they were usually in charge of the family bookkeeping
 * Most women simply accepted the division of political labor and their role as women,
 * Stanton, Elizabeth Cady, 1815 – 1902, American reformer, a leader of the woman-suffrage movement, b. Johnstown, N.Y.
 * Stanton insisted that a suffrage clause be included in the bill of rights for women that was drawn up at the convention
 * She was president of the National Woman Suffrage Association (1869–90) and of the National American Woman Suffrage Association (1890–92)
 * the //Revolution,// a militant feminist magazine.
 * The Declaration of Sentiments and Resolutions was drafted by [|Elizabeth Cady Stanton] for the women's rights convention at Seneca Falls, New York in 1848. Based on the American Declaration of Independence, the Sentiments demanded equality with men before the law, in education and employment.
 * The first women's rights convention is held in Seneca Falls, New York
 * 1848 on 2011-11-10 -
 * The first National Women's Rights Convention takes place in [|Worcester, Mass.,] attracting more than 1,000 participants
 * 1850
 * Dec. 10 The territory of [|Wyoming] passes the first women's suffrage law. The following year, women begin serving on juries in the territory.
 * 1869 on 2011-11-10 -
 * [|Colorado] is the first state to adopt an amendment granting women the right to vote. [|Utah] and [|Idaho] follow suit in 1896, [|Washington] State in 1910, [|California] in 1911, [|Oregon,] [|Kansas,] and [|Arizona] in 1912, [|Alaska] and [|Illinois] in 1913, [|Montana] and [|Nevada] in 1914, [|New York] in 1917; [|Michigan,] [|South Dakota,] and [|Oklahoma] in 1918.
 * [|Margaret Sanger] opens the first U.S. birth-control clinic in Brooklyn, N.Y. Although the clinic is shut down 10 days later and Sanger is arrested, she eventually wins support through the courts and opens another clinic in [|New York City] in 1923.
 * 1916 on 2011-11-14 -
 * Aug. 26 The 19th [|Amendment to the Constitution,] granting women the right to vote, is signed into law by Secretary of State [|Bainbridge Colby].
 * 1920 on 2011-11-14 -