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It includes key individuals, institutions, law reforms, and events that have contributed to the development and expansion of educational opportunities for women. The timeline highlights early instances of women's education, such as the establishment of girls' schools and women's colleges, as well as legal reforms like compulsory education laws ...
Advocates for women's rights founded the National Organization for Women (NOW) in June 1966 out of frustration with the enforcement of the sex bias provisions of the Civil Rights Act and Executive Order 11375. [103] New York state legislature amends its abortion-related statute to allow for more therapeutic exceptions. [8] 1966
Albania: The first school of higher education for women is opened. [146] Germany: Women are allowed to attend university lectures, which makes it possible for individual professors to accept female students if they wish. [116] Portugal: The first medical university degree is granted to a woman. [147] Switzerland: Secondary schools opened to ...
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 ...
In the Company of Educated Women: A History of Women and Higher Education in America (1985). online; Spruill, Julia Cherry. Women's life and work in the southern colonies (1938; reprinted 1998), pp 183-207. online; Woody, Thomas. A History of Women's Education in the United States (2 vols. 1929) vol 1 online also see vol 2 online
1837: The first American convention held to advocate women's rights was the 1837 Anti-Slavery Convention of American Women held in 1837. [4] [5] 1837: Oberlin College becomes the first American college to admit women. 1840: The first petition for a law granting married women the right to own property was established in 1840. [6]
Mexico: Legal majority for married women. [8] Uruguay: University education opened to women. [3] Russian Empire: Abortion was a serious crime until 1917. Through articles 1462 and 1463 of the Russian Penal Code individuals "guilty of the crime could be deprived of civil rights and exiled or sentenced to hard labor." [61] 1918
This is a chronological list of women's rights conventions held in the United States. The first convention in the country to focus solely on women's rights was the Seneca Falls Convention held in the summer of 1848 in Seneca Falls, New York. [1] Prior to that, the first abolitionist convention for women was held in New York City in 1837. [2]