Women's Rights Events

1848 Douglass Participates in First Women's Rights Convention, Seneca Falls, New York
Frederick DouglassA crowd of about three hundred people, including forty men, came from five miles round. No woman felt capable of presiding; the task was undertaken by Lucretia's husban...
1851 May 28
to 1851 May 29
 Ohio Woman's Rights Convention Meets in Akron
"Are not the natural wants and emotions of humanity common too, and shared equally by both sexes? Does man hunger and thirst, suffer cold and heat more than woman? Does he love and hate, h..." —Opening Address of the Convention
1963 Congress Passes the Equal Pay Act
The Equal Pay Act of 1963, Pub. L. No. 88-38, 77 Stat. 56, (June 10, 1963) codified at 29 U.S.C. § 206(d), is a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at a...
1966 Jun 30 National Organization for Women (NOW) is Founded
"Sex discrimination" was added to Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. But there was no group to lobby for enforcement. I had written The Feminine Mystique in 1963, and I became a magn...
1970 Aug 26 Women's Strike for Equality
Jonathan Friedan, Betty Friedan’s middle child (and my third cousin), spent much of August 1970 fighting forest fires in Washington State. When his backpack was stolen, the 17-year-old hi...
2011 Mar 8 International Women's Day Rally in Cairo Marred by Rival Protests
“We fought side by side with men during the revolution, and now we’re not represented,” said Passat Rabie, a young woman who came with friends, after men aggressively dispersed the protes...