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The Women's Movement |
| I started this project because I was interested in learning a little about feminism. I read a biography of Betty Friedan and the National Organization for Women. Here, I made a timeline outlining the women's movement, beginning with 1829. It goes through 1920, when women in the United States gained suffrage. The feminist movement was revived with Betty Friedan's book The Feminine Mystique. While working on this project, my teacher told me about a woman named Mrs. R. She lives in a community called Rossmoor and was willing to come to my school for an interview. She has lived through a lot of the changes that have occurred in the movement. She supported the National Organization for Women when they first organized. After a while though, she grew to disapprove of their methods. It alienated the women who chose not to work and the men who wanted to support them. Please look at the end of the timeline to read the interview with her. |
| Timeline | |
| 1829 | Fanny Wright and Robert Dale Owen publish the Free Enquirer newspaper in New York, using it to further the cause of women’s emancipation |
| 1838 | Sarah Moore Grimké lectures on women’s emancipation and proposes that women become ministers of religion |
| 1848 | The first women’s rights convention who decides to fight for equality in marriage, work, and education was held in Seneca Falls, New York |
| 1850 | Lucy Stone calls the first National Convention for Women’s Rights in Worcester, Massachusetts |
| 1853 | The Constitutional Convention in Massachusetts is subject to a petition for women’s suffrage signed by 74 women |
| 1870 | Victoria Woodhull and Tennessee Claflin publish Woodhull and Claflin’s Weekly, a magazine promoting free love, equal rights and legal prostitution |
| 1876 | Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Matilda Joslyn Gage write the "Declaration of Rights of the Women of the United States" and present it to the vice president on July 4 in Philadelphia |
| 1911 | California gained suffrage for women |
| 1919 | Crystal Eastman organizes the First Feminist Congress in New York |
| 1920 | Women gain equal voting rights on August 26 |
| 1963 | Betty Friedan writes The Feminine Mystique |
| 1966 | National Organization for Women (N.O.W.) is formed |
| 1967 | N.O.W. holds its first national conference, raising issues such as equal employment opportunities, equal education, equal poverty allowances and maternity leaves |
| 1969 | International Women’s Day is revived on March
8, commemorating an 1857 march and demonstration in New York City by female garment and
textile workers California adopted the first "no-fault" divorce law |
| 1970 | The National Women’s Strike for Equality is held on New York’s Fifth Avenue |
| 1971 | The National Women’s Political Caucus is
founded to raise women’s political power Gloria Steinem created Ms Magazine |
| 1972 | The Senate votes to submit the Equal Rights Amendment to the states for ratification, proposing equal rights in law (deadline extended in 1978) |
| 1973 | First Women’s Bank established |
| 1974 | Congresswoman Bella Abzug's bill to make August 26 "Women's Equality Day" became Public Law 93-382 picture |
| 1976 | The first female cadets are admitted to the Military Academy, West Point, Naval Academy, Annapolis, and Air Force Academy, Colorado Springs |
| 1977 | 20,000 supporters of gender-related issues gather for the National Women’s Conference in Houston |
| 1978 | Susan B. Anthony becomes the first woman to appear on American currency |
| 1981 | Sandra Day O'Connor becomes the first woman to serve on the Supreme Court |
| 1994 | Congress adopts the Gender Equity in Education Act to train teachers, promote math and science learning by girls, give counseling to pregnant girls, and prevent sexual harassment |
| 1996 | United States v. Virginia says that the male-only admissions policy of the Virginia Military Institute violates the Fourteenth Amendment |
| 1997 | The Supreme Court rules that college sports programs must involve about the same numbers of men and women to qualify for federal support |
| 1998 | Eileen Collins, who was the first female shuttle pilot in 1995, becomes the first woman to command a space shuttle mission |
| 2000 | Interview with Mrs. R. |