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1991 – All new sports applying to be included in the Olympic program were required to feature women's events. [225] 1991 – Algerian middle-distance runner Hassiba Boulmerka became the first African woman to win a world championship in track and field. She won the 1500-meter race.
The 1980s (pronounced "nineteen-eighties", shortened to "the '80s" or "the Eighties") was the decade that began on January 1, 1980, and ended on December 31, 1989.. The decade saw a dominance of conservatism and free market economics, and a socioeconomic change due to advances in technology and a worldwide move away from planned economies and towards laissez-faire capitalism compared to the 1970s.
One hundred and forty-six people, mostly women and young girls working in sweatshop conditions, died. [26] 1912 (United States) Massachusetts passes the first minimum wage law for women and minors. [26] 1912 (United States) Chicago newspaper strike occurred. [26] 1912 (United States) Fur Workers' Strike occurred. [26] 1912 (United States)
1980 World Championships in Athletics are held featuring only two events, which were not included in that year's Olympics programme, women's 400 metres hurdles and 3000 metres. • Female combined eventers start to switch from the pentathlon to the heptathlon.
The presence and rise of a significant number of women as heads of state and heads of government in a number of countries across the world, many being the first women to hold such positions, such as Soong Ching-ling continuing as the first Chairwoman of the People's Republic of China until 1972, Isabel Perón as the first woman President in ...
May 13 – Bobby Riggs challenges and defeats Margaret Court, the world's #1 women's player, in a nationally televised tennis match set in Ramona, CA northeast of San Diego. Riggs wins 6–2, 6-1 which leads to the huge Battle of the Sexes match against Billie Jean King later in the year on September 20.