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2. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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   Florida: Mary R. Grizzle introduces and passes the Married Women Property Rights Act, giving married women in Florida, for the first time, the right to own property solely in their names and to transfer that property without their husbands' signatures. [136] 1971. Barring women from practicing law becomes prohibited. [137]

3. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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   Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

4. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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   International: The Convention on the Political Rights of Women was approved by the United Nations General Assembly during the 409th plenary meeting, on 20 December 1952, and adopted on 31 March 1953. The Convention's purpose is to codify a basic international standard for women's political rights.

5. Women's liberation movement in North America - Wikipedia

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   The women's liberation movement in North America was part of the feminist movement in the late 1960s and through the 1980s. Derived from the civil rights movement, student movement and anti-war movements, the Women's Liberation Movement took rhetoric from the civil rights idea of liberating victims of discrimination from oppression.

6. Women's Strike for Equality - Wikipedia

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   About 125 women marched on City Hall in Syracuse, N. Y., [11] and in Manhasset, L. I., women gathered signatures on a petition urging Senate passage of the Equal Rights Amendment. [11] In Detroit, women staged a sit-in in a men's restroom protesting unequal facilities for men and women staffers. In Pittsburgh, four women threw eggs at a radio ...

7. Feminism in the United States - Wikipedia

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   Century of Struggle: The Woman's Rights Movement in the United States. Harvard University Press. ISBN 0674106539. Echols, Alice (1990). Daring to Be Bad: Radical Feminism in America, 1967–1975. Rosen, Ruth (2006). The World Split Open: How the Modern Women's Movement Changed America. Penguin Publishing. ISBN 0670814628

8. Women's liberation movement - Wikipedia

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   To many women activists in the American Indian Movement, black Civil Rights Movement, Chicana Movement, as well as Asians and other minorities, the activities of the primarily white, middle-class women in the women's liberation movement were focused specifically on sex-based violence and the social construction of gender as a tool of sex-based ...

9. Women's rights - Wikipedia

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   Women's rights are the rights and entitlements claimed for women and girls worldwide. They formed the basis for the women's rights movement in the 19th century and the feminist movements during the 20th and 21st centuries. In some countries, these rights are institutionalized or supported by law, local custom, and behavior, whereas in others ...