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The Women's Educational Equity Act (WEEA) is one of the several landmark laws passed by the United States Congress outlining federal protections against the gender discrimination of women in education (educational equity). WEEA was enacted as Section 513 of P.L. 93-380.
This is a timeline of women in the history of America, noting important events relevant in American women's history. For a detailed timeline of individual American women's firsts, see the List of American women's firsts. Timeline Official portrait of Kamala Harris, 2021. 1756: Lydia Taft is the first woman to vote legally in Colonial America.
Some notable events: 1769 – The colonies adopt the English system decreeing women cannot own property in their own name or keep their own earnings. 1777– All states pass laws which take away ...
Feminism is aimed at defining, establishing, and defending a state of equal political, economic, cultural, and social rights for women. It has had a massive influence on American politics. [1][2] Feminism in the United States is often divided chronologically into first-wave, second-wave, third-wave, and fourth-wave feminism. [3][4] As of 2023 ...
The timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) represents formal changes and reforms regarding women's rights. The changes include actual law reforms, as well as other formal changes (e.g., reforms through new interpretations of laws by precedents ).
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. [251] Sweden: Sweden made marital rape illegal. [252] 1966. Kuwait: University education opened to women. [21]
The amendment was the culmination of a decades-long movement for women's suffrage in the United States, at both the state and national levels, and was part of the worldwide movement towards women's suffrage and part of the wider women's rights movement. The first women's suffrage amendment was introduced in Congress in 1878.
The Seneca Falls Convention was the first women's rights convention. [ 1 ] It advertised itself as "a convention to discuss the social, civil, and religious condition and rights of woman". [ 2 ][ 3 ] Held in the Wesleyan Chapel of the town of Seneca Falls, New York, it spanned two days over July 19–20, 1848.