WOMEN'S
AUG, EQUALITY
26
DAY
Commemorates passage of the 19th Amendment
granting women the right to vote in America.
"The humanity
of all Americans
is diminished
when any
group is denied
rights granted
"WELL BEHAVED
WOMEN SELDOM
MAKE HISTORY"
1916 Author LaurelThatcher Vlrich
1872 - Susan B. Anthony went to the
polls in Rochester, NY, and cast a
ballot in the presidential election. She
citied her citizenship under the 14th
Amendment as giving her the right to
vote. She was arrested and fined
$ 100, which she refused to pay.
PAY STILL NOT EQUAL
As of 2013, despite the Equal Pay Act of
1963 women still earn less than men.
The average women will lose in her career
$4311000
With that money she could:
Put 2 children
Buy 21 ,900 Feed a family of
Buy a
house through college gallons of gas 4 for 6.4 years
Wh ite House Sta ia Office
to others."
1848
WOMEN'S RIGHTS TIMELINE
1869 1920 1932
1948
1963 1972
1982
1996
July 19, 1848 - Seneca Falls Convention
The first women's rights convention
attended by more than 300 men and
women, 100 of those gathered signed
the "Declaration of Sentiments."
1869 - Susan B. Anthony and
Elizabeth Cady Stanton form the
National Women Suffrage
Association
1932 - Hattie Caraway of Arkansas
became the first woman elected to
the Senate; Amelia Earhart became
the first woman to fly solo across
the Atlantic.
1948 - African American and
Asian American women are
given the right to vote.
March 10, 1972 - The Equal Rights Amend-
ment was sent to the states for ratification.
Twenty states ratified by the end of the
year but to this day the amendment has
not yet been ratified by enough states to
become the law of the land.
June 10, 1963 -The Equal Pay Act was
signed into law. Protecting men and
women from sex-based wage
discrimination.
June 30, 1982 - The ERA had only
been ratified by 35 states, three
states short of the 38 required to
put it into the Constitution.
Dec. 5, 1996 - Madeline Albright
becomes the first female U.S.
Secretary of State.
2005
2008
Jan. 18, 2005 - Condoleza Rice
was appointed the first African
American woman to be U.S.
Secretary of State.
2008 - In the presidential
nomination race, Hillary
Clinton won more prima-
ries and delegates than
any other female candi-
date in American history,
narrowly losing to Illinois
Senator Barack Obama.
Aug. 26, 1920 - The 19th Amendment
is signed into law, giving all Ameri-
can women the right to vote.
States that ratified the ERA
EQUAL RIGHTS AMENDMENT
1923 - The ERA was introduced in Congress for the first time.
1940 -The Republican Party included support of the ERA in its platform every
four years until 1980.
1958 - President Dwight Eisenhower asked a joint session of Congress to pass
the Equal Rights Amendment, the first President to show such a level of
support for the ERA.
1961- Feminists encouraged newly elected President John F. Kennedy to
support the ERA.
1970 - Women picketed the United States Senate demanding a hearing on
the Equal Rights Amendment and won a meeting with Senators to discuss
the ERA.
1972 - The ERA passed the Senate and was sent to the states for ratification.
1980 - The amendment was short 3 states to ratify the ERA (see map.)
1982 - The ERA has been reintroduced in every session of Congress since
1982.
2013 - The 1 1 3th Congress reintroduced the ERA as S. J. RES. 10 by Senator
Robert Menendez.
States that did not ratify the ERA
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