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2. Timeline: The women's rights movement in the US - AOL

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   Historians describe two waves of feminism in history: the first in the 19 th century, growing out of the anti-slavery movement, and the second, in the 1960s and 1970s. Women have made great ...

3. Timeline of second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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   The first national meeting of the women's liberation movement in Britain took place at Ruskin College. [ 22 ] Coretta Scott King expanded the Civil Rights Movement platform to include women's rights following the death of her husband, Martin Luther King Jr. [ 64 ] She previously served as a Women Strike for Peace delegate to the World ...

4. Timeline of women's legal rights in the United States (other ...

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   California: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Wisconsin: Married Women's Property Act grants married women separate economy. [13] Oregon: Unmarried women are given the right to own land. [14] Tennessee: Tennessee becomes the first state in the United States to explicitly outlaw wife beating. [15] [16] 1852

5. Second-wave feminism - Wikipedia

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   Among the most significant legal victories of the movement after the formation of NOW were a 1967 Executive Order extending full affirmative action rights to women, a 1968 EEOC decision ruling illegal sex-segregated help wanted ads, Title IX and the Women's Educational Equity Act (1972 and 1974, respectively, educational equality), Title X ...

6. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) - Wikipedia

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   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 ).

7. Miss America protest - Wikipedia

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   The Miss America protest was a demonstration held at the Miss America 1969 contest on September 7, 1968, attended by about 200 feminists and civil rights advocates. The feminist protest was organized by New York Radical Women and included putting symbolic feminine products into a "Freedom Trash Can" on the Atlantic City boardwalk, including bras, hairspray, makeup, girdles, corsets, false ...

8. Timeline of women's legal rights (other than voting) in the ...

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   On 1 July 1921 the Act on the Change of Certain Provisions of the Civil Law Pertaining to Women's Rights was enacted by the Sejm, to address the most obvious inequalities for women who were married. The provisions of the Act allowed women to control their own property (except their dowry), to act as witnesses to legal documents, to act as ...

9. Timeline of feminism in the United States - Wikipedia

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   1969: Chicana feminism, also called Xicanisma, is a sociopolitical movement in the United States that analyzes the historical, cultural, spiritual, educational, and economic intersections of Mexican-American women that identify as Chicana. Chicana feminism challenges the stereotypes that Chicanas face across lines of gender, ethnicity, race ...