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The claim: In 1971, women could not do these nine things. It wasn’t that long ago a woman couldn’t get a credit card in her own name, or serve on a jury, or get an Ivy League education. In...
At the turn of the century, a woman’s place was in the home. But the automobile helped change that by setting women on the road toward greater freedom and work opportunity. Check out this timeline of automotive history highlights, design and technological firsts, that put American women in the driver’s seat. 1902 — Mary Anderson […]
In 1916, two women (again sponsored by NAWSA) set out in a yellow Saxon automobile dubbed the “Golden Flyer” to deliver speeches, distribute literature, and promote votes for women in cities across the country. Over the five-month tour, they covered more than 10,000 miles.
Girls or women who could drive were able to run farm errands and to gain personal access when men were working on the farm. It seems that by 1940 most young and middle–aged farm women who were interested in mobility could and did drive the family car.
For a timeline of women's voting rights in the United States, see Timeline of women's suffrage in the United States. The following timeline represents formal legal changes and reforms regarding women's rights in the United States except voting rights.
In the 1950s in the US, about half of adult women had a driver's license. In 1960, with 39% (or 34 million) of registered drivers being women (compared to 53.2 million men), around 55% of women had a license. By 1965, 40.8% (or 40.2 million) of registered drivers were women (compared to 58.3 million men).
1777 – All states pass laws which take away women's right to vote. 1809 – Mary Kies becomes the first woman to receive a patent, for a method of weaving straw with silk. 1839 – The first state...
The amendment was ratified in August 1920. Driving the Disenfranchised examines the role automobiles played in furthering the cause of women’s suffrage in the United States, particularly during the Progressive Era (1890–1920).
In 1900, Anne Rainsford French became the first licensed woman driver in Washington, D.C. The epitaph on her tombstone goes even further by stating that she was the “first woman licensed to drive an automobile in America.”
Social media helps spread the word about the women's movement around the world, and in 2011 a fight led by Saudi women to be allowed to drive gains global attention.