1769 – The colonies adopt the English system decreeing women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings.

1777– All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote

1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk.

1839 – The first state (Mississippi) grants women the right to hold property in their own names – with permission from their husbands.

1848 – At Seneca Falls, New York, 300 women and men sign the Declaration of Sentiments, a plea for the end of discrimination against women.

1869– Arabella Mansfield is granted admission to practice law in Iowa, making her the first woman lawyer. Ada H. Kepley becomes the first woman in the United States to graduate from law school.

1872– Victoria Claflin Woodhull becomes the first female presidential candidate in the United States, nominated by the National Radical Reformers. Female federal employees (but not private sector workers) guaranteed equal pay for equal work under the law

1873– The Supreme Court rules that a state has the right to exclude a married woman from practicing law.

1887– Susanna Medora Salter becomes the first woman elected mayor of an American town, in Argonia, Kansas.

1890 – The first state (Wyoming) grants women the right to vote in all elections.

1900 – By this year, every state had passed legislation granting married women the right to keep their own wages and to own property in their own name.

1916 – Jeannette Rankin, of Montana, is the first woman to be elected to the U.S. House of Representatives

1918 – Margaret Sanger, two years after opening a birth control clinic in Brooklyn, wins her suit in New York to allow doctors to advise their married patients about birth control for health purposes. The clinic, along with others, becomes Planned Parenthood in 1942.

1920 – The Nineteenth Amendment to the Constitution is ratified, ensuring the right of women to vote.

1923 – The first version of an Equal Rights Amendment is introduced. It says, "Men and women shall have equal rights throughout the United States and every place subject to its jurisdiction."

1932– Hattie Wyatt Caraway, of Arkansas, becomes the first woman elected to the U.S. Senate.

1933– Frances Perkins becomes the first female cabinet member, appointed secretary of labor by President Franklin D. Roosevelt.

1953 – Jerrie Cobb is the first U.S. woman to undergo astronaut testing. NASA, however, cancels the women's program in 1963. It is not until 1983 that an American woman gets sent into space.

1963 – The Equal Pay Act is passed by Congress, promising equitable wages for the same work, regardless of the race, color, religion, national origin or sex of the worker.

1964 – Title VII of the Civil Rights Act passes, prohibiting sex discrimination in employment. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission is created.

1968 – President Lyndon B. Johnson signs an executive order prohibiting sex discrimination by government contractors and requiring affirmative action plans for hiring women.

1972 – Title IX of the Education ----Amendments prohibits sex discrimination in all aspects of education programs that receive federal support.

-The Supreme Court upholds the right to use birth control by unmarried couples.

-Juanita Kreps becomes the first woman director of the New York Stock Exchange.

973 – Landmark Supreme Court ruling Roe v. Wade makes abortion legal. The Supreme Court in a separate ruling bans sex-segregated "help wanted" advertising.

1974 – Housing discrimination on the basis of sex and credit discrimination against women are outlawed by Congress.

The Supreme Court rules it is illegal to force pregnant women to take maternity leave on the assumption they are incapable of working in their physical condition.

1975 – The Supreme Court denies states the right to exclude women from juries.

1978 – The Pregnancy Discrimination Act bans employment discrimination against pregnant women.

983– Dr. Sally K. Ride becomes the first American woman to be sent into space.

1984 – Geraldine Ferraro becomes the first woman to be nominated to be vice president on a major party ticket.

U.S. Supreme Court bans sex discrimination in membership for onetime all-male groups like the Jaycees, Kiwanis and Rotary clubs.

The state of Mississippi belatedly ratifies the 19th Amendment, granting women the vote.

1985 – EMILY's List is founded, its mission to elect Democratic, pro-abortion rights women to office.

1986 – The U.S. Supreme Court held that a work environment can be declared hostile or abusive because of discrimination based on sex, an important tool in sexual harassment cases.

1989 – The Supreme Court affirms the right of states to deny public funding for abortions and to prohibit public hospitals from performing abortions.

1992 – The Year of the Woman: Following 1991 hearings in which lawyer Anita Hill accused Supreme Court nominee Clarence Thomas of sexual harassment, record numbers of women are elected to Congress, with four women winning Senate elections and two dozen women elected to first terms in the House.

In Planned Parenthood of Southeastern Pennsylvania v Casey, the Supreme Court upholds Roe v Wade but allows states to impose restrictions such as a waiting period and parental consent for minors seeking abortions.

1994 – The Violence Against Women Act funds services for victims of rape and domestic violence and allows women to seek civil rights remedies for gender-related crimes. Six years later, the Supreme Court invalidates those portions of the law permitting victims of rape, domestic violence, etc. to sue their attackers in federal court.

1997 – Madeleine Albright become the first female secretary of state.

2005 – Congress passes the Partial-Birth Abortion Ban Act, the first law to ban a specific abortion procedure. The Supreme Court upholds the ban the following year.

2007– Nancy Pelosi becomes the first female speaker of the House.

2008– Alaska Governor Sarah Palin becomes the first woman to run for vice president on the Republican ticket. Hillary Clinton loses the Democratic nomination to Barack Obama.

2009– The Lily Ledbetter Fair Pay Restoration Act allows victims, usually women, of pay discrimination to file a complaint with the government against their employer within 180 days of their last paycheck.

2012– The Paycheck Fairness Act, meant to fight gender discrimination in the workplace, fails in the Senate on a party-line vote. Two years later, Republicans filibuster the bill (twice).

2013– The ban against women in military combat positions is removed, overturning a 1994 Pentagon decision restricting women from combat roles.

2016– Hillary Rodham Clinton secures the Democratic presidential nomination, becoming the first U.S. woman to lead the ticket of a major party. She loses to Republican Donald Trump in the fall.

2017– Congress has a record number of women, with 104 female House members and 21 female Senators, including the chamber's first Latina, Nevada Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto.

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Its traced all the way back to the 19th century when women suffragist acheived there first victory in 1869. Women suffragist has taken the world by storm. Doing everything from protest to going all the way to chorts to fight for there causes.

EFFECT

In Wyoming women where first given the right to vote during elections. In 1890 the movement contiuned to protest and won the right to vote in many other states.

Cause

Men are seen as phisically more powerful. But they can also suffer from domestic abuse. Although there is a huge difference between the number of males and females that have been affected by violence at home.

EFFECT

The feminist movement has not only drawn public attention to this issue and founded numerous organizations aimed at protecting women from their violent spouses, but also helped create legislative and legal mechanisms that would protect victims of domestic abuse

SOCIAL

Many women get the chance to choose what leader they want in office
Women get the chance to decide what life they want to live
What jobs they want to have
Attend college
Women where able to train to be teachers and have
bigger roles like men

ECONOMIC

Women began to have a bigger impact on the world
Began to make more money and support there families easier GLOBAL
The effects of the feminist where far from small , equality not to mention the simple rights we take for granteeded where fought by all these feminist. Equality for races and sexually was fought hard and from where it came from the change has been huge.