Timeline of women in the United States: Difference between revisions

 

==Timeline==

1756: [[Lydia Taft]] is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America.<ref>{{cite web|title=Women in Politics|publisher=International Women's Democracy Center|url=http://www.iwdc.org/resources/timeline.htm|accessdate=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20110722094028/http://www.iwdc.org/resources/timeline.htm|archivedate=July 22, 2011}}</ref>

 

1870: [[Louisa Ann Swain]] is the first woman in the [[United States]] to vote in a [[General election (U.S.)|general election]]. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in [[Laramie, Wyoming]].<ref>{{cite book |title= Women vote in the West: the Woman Suffrage Movement, 1869&ndash;1896 |last=Beeton |first= Beverly |publisher= [[Garland Science]] |location= New York |year= 1986 |isbn= 978-0-8240-8251-2 |page= 11 }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |title= Women and museums: a comprehensive guide |first= Victor J. |last= Danilov |publisher= [[Rowman & Littlefield|AltaMira Press]] |location= Lanham, MD |year= 2005 |isbn= 978-0-7591-0854-7 |page= 68 |url= https://books.google.com/books?id=4AWmyJvZwkwC&pg=PA68 }}</ref>

 

 

1874: [[Mary Ewing Outerbridge]], from Staten Island, introduces tennis to America, creating the first American tennis court at the Staten Island Cricket and Baseball Club.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/timeline.htm|title=History of Women in Sports Timeline|publisher=[[American Association of University Women|AAUW]] - St. Lawrence County Branch|accessdate=January 10, 2014|url-status=dead|archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20140527131109/http://www.northnet.org/stlawrenceaauw/timeline.htm|archivedate=May 27, 2014}}</ref>

1940: The first social security beneficiary was [[Ida May Fuller]], she received check 00-000-001 in the amount of $22.54.<ref>{{cite book|last=Gruber|first=Jonathan|year=2007|title=Public finance and public policy|publisher=Worth Publishers|isbn=978-0716766315}}</ref>

 

 

1965: In ''[[Griswold v. Connecticut]]'', the Supreme Court rules that Connecticut's ban on the use of contraceptives violates the right to marital privacy.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.pbs.org/wnet/supremecourt/rights/landmark_griswold.html|title=Griswold v. Connecticut (1965)|publisher=[[PBS]]|accessdate=January 10, 2014}}</ref>

1972: [[Title IX]] is passed as a portion of the [[Education Amendments of 1972]], which states (in part) that: "No person in the United States shall, on the basis of sex, be excluded from participation in, be denied the benefits of, or be subjected to discrimination under any education program or activity receiving federal financial assistance."

 

 

1978: The [[Pregnancy Discrimination Act]] of 1978 amends Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 to prohibit sex discrimination on the basis of pregnancy.<ref>{{cite web|title=The Pregnancy Discrimination Act of 1978|url=http://www.eeoc.gov/laws/statutes/pregnancy.cfm|publisher=[[Equal Employment Opportunity Commission|U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission]]|accessdate=January 10, 2014}}</ref>

 

 

 

 

 

2009: The [[Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act of 2009]] is signed into law, which states that the 180-day statute of limitations for filing an equal-pay lawsuit regarding pay discrimination resets with each new paycheck affected by that discriminatory action.

 

 

 

== See also ==