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In March 1873, the United States Congress passed the Comstock Act, which made it illegal to distribute birth control information or contraceptives through the U.S. postal system. [189] Margaret Sanger was an influential campaigner for birth control rights, specifically for poor women, in the 1910s.
History portal; This category holds female rulers, whether monarchs, other female heads of state, regents or female heads of government. For women who ruled in their own rights as monarchs, go to the monarch-subcategory. For women who ruled as regents, go to the regent-subcategory.
Maria Mitchell was the first female astronomer in the United States as well as the first woman elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. [20] 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell, born in England, was the first woman to earn a medical degree in America. [21] [4]
A conical hennin with black velvet lappets (brim) and a sheer veil, 1485–90. The hennin (French: hennin / ˈ h ɛ n ɪ n /; [1] possibly from Flemish Dutch: henninck meaning cock or rooster) [N 1] was a headdress in the shape of a cone, steeple, or truncated cone worn in the Late Middle Ages by European women of the nobility. [2]
Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2021. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America. [1]1821: Emma Willard founds the Troy Female Seminary in New York; it is the first school in the country founded to provide young women with a college-level education.
Short and sweet names have their merit, but if you’re on the market for a more melodic moniker, our roundup of three-syllable girl names won’t disappoint. Read on and take your pick from ...
Naamah Kelman, born in the United States, became the first female rabbi ordained in Israel. [103] [104] Rabbi Karen Soria became the first female rabbi to serve in the U.S. Marines, which she did from 1992 until 1996. [105] 1993: Rebecca Dubowe became the first deaf woman to be ordained as a rabbi in the United States. [106]
The status of Aztec women has changed throughout the history of the civilization. In the early days of the Aztecs, before they settled in Tenochtitlan, women owned property and had roughly equal legal and economic rights. As an emphasis on warfare increased, so too did ideas of male dominance. Women did not participate in warfare except as ...