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Anne McDowell was the first American woman to publish a newspaper completely run by women; it was circulated weekly and titled, "Women's Advocate". [ 24 ] [ 25 ] Emeline Roberts Jones was the first woman to practice dentistry in the United States. [ 26 ]
1855: New York Women's Hospital opened in 1855 as the first hospital solely devoted to ailments affiliated with women. [8] 1869: Wyoming is the first territory to give women the right to vote. [9] 1870: Louisa Ann Swain is the first woman in the United States to vote in a general election. She cast her ballot on September 6, 1870, in Laramie ...
The 1920s saw the emergence of the co-ed, as women began attending large state colleges and universities. Women entered into the mainstream middle-class experience, but took on a gendered role within society. Women typically took classes such as home economics, "Husband and Wife", "Motherhood" and "The Family as an Economic Unit".
United States: 1751: 1820: Early American proponent of female equality and author of On the Equality of the Sexes [40] 1700–1799: John Neal: United States: 1793: 1876: Writer, critic, and first American women's rights lecturer [41] [42] 1700–1799: Sarah Ponsonby: Ireland: 1755: 1831: One of the Ladies of Llangollen [28] 1700–1799: Mary ...
List of first ladies of the United States; List of first ladies of Mississippi; List of first women lawyers and judges in the United States; List of American women's firsts; List of Florida suffragists; Florida Women's Hall of Fame
Kamala Harris, United States (2021–present): The first woman to be inaugurated as Vice President of the United States in American history. Sandra Mason, Barbados (2021–present): The first time that a country's first president was female (Barbados has not had a male president to date).
Parks became one of the most impactful Black women in American history almost overnight when she refused to move to the “colored” section of a public bus in 1955.
Susan B. Anthony (1820–1906) – co-founder and leader National Woman Suffrage Association (NWSA), one of the leaders of the National American Woman Suffrage Association; Nineteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, which guaranteed the right of women to vote, was popularly known as the Susan B. Anthony Amendment.